DIPLOMAT AMONG WARRIORS by Robert Murphy. 470 pages. Doubleday. $6.95.
Other memorialists who have trampled over the well-furrowed ground (roughly 1940 to 1960) covered in Diplomat Among Warriors have been quicker to assign blame and point morals. Certainly Robert Murphy was in a position to do so. For two decades his duties took him to the centers of crisis: North Africa, where he laid the groundwork for the U.S.-British landings; Berlin during the airlift; Belgrade, Panmunjom, the Middle East, London during the Suez crisis. But for the most part, Murphy was an implementer, not...
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