David McKean is the former US Ambassador to Luxembourg, and former director of policy planning for the US Department of State. He is currently a Senior Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, DC.
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As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the US Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacua... SEE MORE