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Octavo, tan cloth lettered in silver; slightly soiled. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed: "For Philip C. Jessup, with the best wishes of Josephine Young Case, Van Homerville, Christmas 1938," on the front endpaper. ---- Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague and veteran U. S. diplomat, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a U. S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a U. S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," General Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U. S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. Josephine Young Case, noted novelist, poet, and educator, chaired the Skidmore College Board of Trustees, where Jessup occasionally lectured. An ambitious work with a distinguished provenance. Seller Inventory # ABE-16469824492
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