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  About the Author

  Peter Grosse was managing editor and then executive editor of Foreign Affairs from 1984 to 1993. Previously he was the senior fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations; he has been a Council member since 1974.

  He was a foreign and diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times starting in 1962, and was appointed to its editorial board in 1972. For the year 1977-78 he was deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State.

  Born in Evanston, Illinois, grosse served as a U.S. Senate Page, graduated from Yale University in 1957, and received a Master’s degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University. He is an Honorary Fellow of Oxford’s Pembroke College.

  Among his previous books are Israel in the Mind of America and, most recently, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles.

  Photo and Cartoon Credits

  All pictures not credited below are from the Council on Foreign Relations archives.

  1. Hall of Mirrors (National Archives).
  2. Georges Clemenceau (Museum of the City of New York).
  3. Dorothy Thompson (AP/Wide World Photos).

  Cartoons

  1. “Council meeting” (Chris Weyant, 1996).
  2. “Looking a gift horse in the mouth” (Corbis-Bettmann).
  3. “And they are the leading members of the League of Nations…” (The Tribune, Chicago, 1920).
  4. “The only way we can save her” (The Tribune, Chicago, 1939).
  5. “It’s the same thing without mechanical problems.” (The Herblock Book, Beacon Press, 1952).
  6. “It’s the Internationale…” (Drawing by Alan Dunn; © 1941, The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.).
  7. “In the name of peace, law and order—surrender.” (Corbis-Bettmann).
  8. “Whatever it is, it isn’t paper.” (Mauldin. Reprinted with permission, Chicago Sun Times, © 1995).
  9. “You Congress types…” (United Press Syndicate, 1975).
  10. “May I have your autograph, please…” (United Press Syndicate, 1974).
  11. “And I think it would be nice…” (Universal Press Syndicate, 1980).
  12. “‘O beautiful for spacious skies…’” (Universal Press Syndicate, 1975).
  13. “Detente” (Universal Press Syndicate, 1973), p. 62.

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