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Retired diplomat Sharkey recalls world travels and truths
In a Sandy Hook talk former AP reporter Sharkey reflects on four decades roaming the globe. He recalls risking a boxcar ride in Siberia for a Kolchak scoop and meeting leaders like Lloyd George and Mussolini, praising truth as a beautiful aim. He lives simply, with memory of his wife Beatrice and a Knight’s Cross decoration.
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Boyle
Joseph FE
Sharkey
Paris
Cambridge
Mats
Harvard University
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Associated Press
Korea
Ireland
Greece
Russia
Siberia
Adm
Kolchak
Dreshky
Omsk
Bolshevists
League of Nations
Lloyd George
Briand
Austen Chamberlain
Benes
de Valera
Mussolini
France
Belgium
Beatrice
Napoleon
Sandy Hook
DeWitt
Hyde
Maryland
Republican Club
Congress
Hich
Potomac River