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(P180)
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(Q325810)
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(P854)
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https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/06/archives/david-ke-bruce-diplomat-dies-the-new-york-times-david-kebruce.html
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(P1683)
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"Mr. Bruce was a man of great charm, wit and sympathy, whose easy skills at cooling sometimes heated situations led him to a distinguished career that included heading three of his country's premier embassies, those in London, Paris and Bonn.He was highly regarded in all those capitals, particularly in London, where he was Ambassador for eight years, the longest that anyone ever held that post. He also served in less glamorous and more vexing diplomatic assignments, such as the job he took on in 1970‐head of the American delegation at the stalemated Paris peace talks to end the war in Vietnam. In addition, he was the first head of the United States liaison office set up in Peking in 1973.After serving as, Ambassador to France from 1949 to 1952, Mr. Bruce returned to Washington to become Under Secretary of State, and in 1953, he was made the special United States observer at the European Defense Community negotiations, which proved abortive, and later was appointed representative to the European High Authority for Coal and Steel." (language: en)
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(Q405352)
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(P854)
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https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/06/archives/david-ke-bruce-diplomat-dies-the-new-york-times-david-kebruce.html
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(P1683)
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"Mr. Bruce came from a moderately well‐to‐do family, and never had to do without. He did not become a rich man, however, until after he married his first wife. She was Ailsa Mellon, the only daughter of Andrew W. Mellon, the multimillionaire industrialist who was Secretary of the Treasury at the time of his daughter's marriage to Mr. Bruce in 1926.The following year, Mr. Bruce left the foreign Service and moved with his wife to New York, where, for the next several years, he was active in the management of the Mellon business interests and in the firm of W. A. Harriman & Co. (At one point he was a director of some two dozen corporations.) While acquiring the base for a fortune, Mr. Bruce became the close friend of W. Averell Harriman, who was later to have a hand in getting him back into diplomatic channels.David and Ailsa Mellon Bruce were divorced in 1945. Their only child, Audrey, was lost with her husband, Stephen R. Currier, in a 1967 airplane crash in the Caribbean." (language: en)
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(Q214867)
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(P854)
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https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/06/archives/david-ke-bruce-diplomat-dies-the-new-york-times-david-kebruce.html
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(P1683)
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"He moved in a richly embossed world, one in which he could keenly discuss the most esoteric of books and speak learnedly on such subjects as fine silver and furniture. An avid and knowledgeable art collector, he at one time served as president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Mr. Bruce's knowledge of the arts stood him in good stead in discoursing on diplomatic problems. “In political affairs,” he once told a news conference in Bonn, “the inability of nations to compose their differences constitutes a disharmony that would be insufferable to any art‐loving audience.”" (language: en)
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