Oral history interview with Donald A. Dumont, 1972.

Biographical Note

Foreign Service officer

Scope and Contents

United States Foreign Service, Dakar, 1940-1943, situation in World War II: vice consul, Dakar and Rabat, consul, Tunis, Istanbul and Stuttgart; United States adviser to United Nations delegation, 1955; Consul General, Dakar and Senegal, 1958-1962; emergence of independent African nations, troubles in Congo; French West Africa: social, economic, political developments, tribal differences; United States attitudes towards independence and role in United Nations

Subjects

• Africa--Politics and government--1945-1960.
• Africa--Politics and government--1960-
• Africa--Social conditions.
• Dumont, Donald A. (Donald Albert), 1911-1996--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United Nations.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• United States. Foreign Service.

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