The Foreign Service Journal, November 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2018 61 when she married and turned to writing. Nancy Horton, former president of Federal Poets, worked on charity issues from geno- cide to animal welfare. Her father, George Horton, was U.S. consul during the burning of Smyrna and was personally responsible for rescuing thousands of people during that catastrophe. Dagmar Kane’s autobiographical “Birth of a Citizen” was pub- lished in The Foreign Service Journal in 1985. Lucille Klontz fol- lowed her physician husband on medical missionary work and on his FS tours as a regional medical officer. Catherine Little served with the U.S. Army of Occupation in Germany. Madeleine Meyer was a journalist who worked in Berlin for the Associated Press and in Vienna for the Chicago Tribune , returning to her journalistic work after her divorce from a fellow journalist, and again after the death of her FSO husband. She wrote of meet- ing Mother Teresa: “Children were running in and out, around and under the cribs, shouting, laughing, and some crying. She swept two of the smaller ones up into her strong arms, hugging them tightly. ‘Aren’t they beautiful?’ she beamed.” Ingeborg Carsten Miller was a linguist, artist and poet. Mary Sargent’s book Runway Towards Orion covers her year working for the Red Cross in India during World War II. Freelance writer Mary Louise Weiss also worked for the Red Cross, serving in Australia H ow could I regret marriage to a man in the Foreign Service—a diplomat—during the time of the biggest changes in the world’s history, before and during the Second World War? And afterwards, the years of challenges, dangers, adventures, sac- rifices and exhaustion. There were years of almost unbelievable material peaks of well-being laced with luxury, balanced by years of complete loss of all we possessed, followed by years when we again regained worldly possessions. …There were years of changes in countries, cultures, standards of every day; years of growth interrupted by stagnations; successes followed by disappointments. There were years we witnessed how the whole world—our world—labored in the agonies of brutal persecutions, political chaos, when all the values we believed in were desecrated. Yet we were proud that the diplomacy of those years occupied a place of honor, prestige and respect. — Dagmar Kane, from AWorld of Difference: A Collection by American Foreign Service Women