Biographical information; association with LBJ; John Gronouski; Poland foreign policy; policy of building bridges to the East; Battle Acts; most-favored nation treatment; Chinese Communists; Warsaw; Averell Harriman; Foreign Service officers' responsibility; Foreign Service morale; conflict between State Department administrators and Foreign Service officers; Latin America; Brader Bluebook episode; knowledge of LBJ; secretaries of state; service in Argentina, Yugoslavia and Shanghai