The Foreign Service Journal, April 2009

56 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / A P R I L 2 0 0 9 ernment and the Japanese language, as preparation for the invasion and occu- pation of Japan. In September 1945, he went to Tokyo for the occupation, expecting to stay one year. Instead, Japan became home to Mr. Bassin, his wife and two young sons for more than a decade, first as part of the U.S. Army and later as a diplomat. In October 1945, he was assigned to Gen. MacArthur’s legal staff in Tokyo, and became director of the Law Division in 1946. Mr. Bassin was in- volved in negotiating the peace treaty and advised Gen. MacArthur on inter- national and occupation law, repara- tions and repatriation of people dis- placed during the war. When the peace treaty with Japan was finally signed in 1952, Mr. Bassin was asked to join the U.S. Foreign Service in Tokyo as legal attaché. In that position, he was an important part of the highly successful transition from American military to Japanese civil government. Mr. Bassin was posted to Karachi in 1956 as first secretary and special as- sistant on mutual security affairs. He worked with the Pakistani government, an important ally against the Soviet Union and China, on military and in- telligence matters until 1960. Having been overseas in hardship posts for 18 years, Mr. Bassin and his family spent the next nine years back in Washington. He first served from 1960 to 1962 as the State Department’s representative and a faculty member at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. He then held a series of senior State Department administra- tive and personnel jobs until 1969, when he was assigned to Geneva. There he served as minister and deputy chief of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations for five years, becom- ing chargé d’affaires in 1972 upon the resignation of the ambassador. In 1974, Mr. Bassin retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a colonel in the Judge Advocate General Corps. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1975, but was retained by the State Department and USIA to represent refugees and political asylum cases from Latin America in the U.S. Immi- gration Court. Mr. Bassin was predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Beatrice, in 2000. He is survived by two sons, Art Bassin of Ancramdale, N.Y., and Jay Bassin of Silver Spring, Md.; and a brother, Phillip. Dominic A. Broccoli , 81, a retired Foreign Service staff officer, died peacefully at his home at Sun City in Bluffton, S.C., on Dec. 23, 2008. Born in Tarrytown, N.Y., on Sept. 25, 1927, Mr. Broccoli served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he worked at the United Nations. Mr. Broccoli’s first post was Viet- nam, where he served both at the em- bassy in Saigon and helped open the consulate in Hue. His subsequent posts were Daharan, the U.S. Mission to the European Community in Brus- sels, Taipei (where he met and married his wife), Buenos Aires, Khartoum, Tokyo, Rangoon, the New York Re- ception Center, Lagos, Tehran and Kuala Lumpur. He retired in 1982 and then ac- companied his wife to posts in Rome, Mexico City, Palermo and Casablanca. Mr. Broccoli is survived by his wife of 47 years, Winifred; their three chil- dren (Marc of Bethel, Conn., Kiki of Savannah, Ga., and Chris of Zurich); and four grandchildren. Samuel Edwin Fry Jr. , 74, a re- tired FSO, died at his home in Olympia, Wash., on Dec. 14, 2008, from complications of cancer. A graduate of Dartmouth College, with honors in international relations, Mr. Fry studied at the University of Edinburgh and earned his M.A. in po- litical science from the University of Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. Army Third Infantry Division in Ger- many from 1958 to 1959, then joined the Foreign Service. During a 31-year diplomatic ca- reer, Mr. Fry served as consul in Tri- este (1961-1963), economic officer on the Soviet Desk in Washington (1963- 1965), consular officer in Moscow (1966-1968), economic officer in Oslo (1968-1971), office director in the Operations Center (1971-1974) and in the Office of Personnel at State (1974-1977), deputy chief of mission in Helsinki (1977-1981) and DCM in Bucharest (1981-1983). He participated in the Senior Sem- inar (1983-1984), served in the Office of the Inspector General (1984-1986), directed the Office of Public Pro- grams (1986-1988) and was political adviser to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (1988-1989). Mr. Fry received the President’s Award for im- plementation of policy changes to- ward the Soviet Union during the 43rd session of the U.N. General As- sembly. Upon retiring in 1990, he pursued many interests and activities. He taught political science part-time at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks; he worked at the university’s Large I N M E M O R Y