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During the twenty years before World War I, several key figures worked to improve the foreign service and to reform its appointment system. Mr. Werking explores both the methods and the motives of these "master architects." Unlike other writers, he finds that the foundations and general structure of the United States foreign service emerged before World War I. He sees its development as prompted less by foreign crises than by economic conditions-particularly the need to stimulate export trade. I

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During the twenty years before World War I, several key figures worked to improve the foreign service and to reform its appointment system. Mr. Werking explores both the methods and the motives of these "master architects." Unlike other writers, he finds that the foundations and general structure of the United States foreign service emerged before World War I. He sees its development as prompted less by foreign crises than by economic conditions-particularly the need to stimulate export trade. I
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Richard Hume Werking received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin. He is on the library staff at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.