:" I should like to ask Mr. Holbrooke to explain why, for all his patriotism, he has recently thought fit to publish several of his works under the name of Jean Hanze, and, in addition, to circulate a pamphlet puffing their soi-disant BELGIAN COMPOSER!

:" At a time when little notice was taken of British composers, Holbrooke was cudgelling, even bludgeoning, in the English press and at his concerts ( for he has always been fond-perhaps too fond-of prefaces oral and printed ) at the apathy of the English public and the denseness of newspaper critics.

[...] Mr. Holbrooke can do quite easily and unconsciously what Strauss has only done half a dozen times in his career-he can write a big, heartfelt melody that searches us to the very bone ; and the musicians who have this gift as their birthright have a charmed life among a thousand shipwrecks.

:" It has been objected that Holbrooke is mighty clever, and precious little else.

PON has recognized a diverse cast of distinguished negotiators from their respective fields: Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of Finland ( 2010 ); Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created “ The Gates ” in Central Park ( 2008 ); Bruce Wasserstein, Chairman and CEO of Lazard, an international financial advisory and asset management firm ( 2007 ); Sadako Ogata, former United Nations high commissioner for refugees ( 2005 ); Richard Holbrooke, former United States ambassador to the United Nations ( 2004 ); Stuart Eizenstat, former U. S. ambassador to the European Union ( 2003 ); Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations ’ special envoy for Afghanistan ( 2002 ); Charlene Barshefsky, U. S. trade representative in the second Clinton administration ( 2001 ); and former U. S. Senator George Mitchell for his work in Northern Ireland ( 2000 ).

It was written by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan with a foreword by American diplomat Richard Holbrooke.

In 1908 a Dramatic Symphony, opus 51, written by Joseph Holbrooke setting Trench's poem Apollo and the Seaman was performed, under Thomas Beecham.

Richard Holbrooke, an assistant secretary of state, had helped obtain the rights to bury Lawrence at Arlington, and had written a letter to the White House praising Lawrence and saying that he deserved burial at the National Cemetery.

I am tempted to think that Mr. Holbrooke is only discussing his own grievances against the English public, and that the real heading of his articles should be ' Holbrooke's v. German or any other music '"

The President, who was growing frustrated by Soviet actions, wanted “ to be ready to reveal to the whole world the full truth about the Russian failure to honor agreements .”< ref name =" clifford "> Clark M. Clifford and Richard C. Holbrooke, < u > Counsel to the President: A Memoir </ u > ( New York: Random House, 1991 ).</ ref > With the assistance of George Elsey, Clifford set out to write a report that would take the analysis of the Long Telegram and translate it into concrete policy recommendations.

[...] Not all British composers have yet sunk into the mire of sordid commercialism, wherein Mr. Holbrooke would have them fellow-wallowers with himself, nor are they all intoxicated with those quixotic notions of nationalism that have caused Mr. Holbrooke to waste so much breath in spluttering invective against a public that persists in believing that Art is one, and life too short for futile arguments about its nationality.

Bildt and Richard Holbrooke before peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 1995. After his term as Prime Minister, Bildt was active as a mediator in the Balkans conflict, serving as the European Union Special Envoy to Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

This experience committed Holbrooke to pursuing a more aggressive policy in Balkans and, in a memo to his colleagues, he urged that " Bosnia will be the key test of American policy in Europe.

While assistant secretary, Holbrooke led the effort to implement the policy to enlarge NATO and had the distinction of leading the negotiation team charged with resolving the Balkans crisis.

Upon leaving the State Department, Holbrooke was asked by President Clinton to become, as a private citizen, a special envoy to the Balkans given his distinguished service in the region.

In 1997, Holbrooke became a special envoy to Cyprus and the Balkans on a pro-bono basis as a private citizen.

During 1998 and 1999, in his capacity as special presidential envoy, Holbrooke worked to end the conflict between the armed forces of Serbia and the Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA ), who were fighting for an independent Kosovo in the Kosovo War.

* Booknotes interview with Holbrooke on To End a War, July 26, 1998.

In 1991, Clifford's memoirs Counsel to the President ( co-authored with Richard Holbrooke, later U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations ) were published just as his name was implicated in the unfolding Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) scandal.

Richard C. Holbrooke, who had reviewed the book in late November, 2008, was in 2009 a member of the team of Presidential advisers.

Holbrooke described Hill as " brilliant, fearless and argumentative " in his book on the Dayton negotiations and said that Hill manages to be both " very cool and very passionate.

In 2007, Perle presented the documentary " The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ", articulating his view of the challenges facing the U. S. post 9 / 11, and debating with his critics including Richard Holbrooke, Simon Jenkins, and Abdel Bari Atwan.

His 16, 000-word essay, " Marooned in the Cold War: America, the Alliance and the Quest for a Vanished World ," which appeared in World Policy Journal ( Fall 1997 ) provoked a prolonged exchange of letters and responses from Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, Congressman Lee H. Hamilton, and Ambassador George F. Kennan.

Following the First World War, with his own music increasingly side-lined, Holbrooke continued ever more vehemently to berate his critics.

Holbrooke then moved to the US Embassy, Saigon where he became a staff assistant to Ambassadors Maxwell Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. During this time, he served with many other young diplomats who would play a major role in American foreign policy in the decades ahead, including John Negroponte, Anthony Lake, Frank G. Wisner, Les Aspin and Peter Tarnoff.

Following his time in the White House, Holbrooke served as a special assistant to Under Secretaries of State ( then the number-two position in the State Department ) Nicholas Katzenbach and Elliot Richardson.

Holbrooke also secured membership for Israel in the UN's Western European and Others regional group, ending Israel's historic exclusion from regional group deliberations and allowing it to, for the first time, stand for election to leadership positions in UN sub-bodies.

Around this time he decided to change his name from Holbrook to Holbrooke, probably in order to avoid confusion as his father was also still teaching privately.

During this period Holbrooke also won a further prize, this time with his Fantasie Quartet, Op. 17b entered for the 1905 chamber music competition initiated by Walter Willson Cobbett.

However, at the same time, Holbrooke continued to vigorously and vociferously promote compositions by other contemporary British composers both through performance at his own chamber music concerts and in print:

Holbrooke had spent extended periods of time at Harlech, Wales, since around 1915, Scott-Ellis having provided him with a number of residences, and in the early 1920s he moved with his family to a house which he appropriately named Dylan.

The peace conference was led by U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and negotiator Richard Holbrooke with two Co-Chairmen in the form of EU Special Representative Carl Bildt and the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Igor Ivanov.

Manshel hired Richard C. Holbrooke as the first managing editor for Foreign Policy-later to become a U. S. Assistant Secretary of State, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, peace negotiator for the Dayton Accords, and U. S. Presidential Envoy to the Middle East.

Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995.

Holbrooke was also an honorary trustee of the Dayton International Peace Museum, as well as professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, his alma mater.

He also worked with an international coalition under UN authority to restore a democratically elected government to Haiti, and later participated with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in negotiating the Dayton Peace Agreement and other efforts to end the war in Bosnia.

The leverage that this weaponry gave over Balkan aggressors and the recognition of what precision air attack means to decision-makers in the modern world was enunciated by former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke after the conclusion of the campaign and the settlement of the Dayton Peace Accords:

While working on Balkan issues, Hill worked closely with Richard Holbrooke, serving as his deputy at the Dayton Peace Talks in 1995.

Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke ( April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010 ) was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker.

In 1970, at his own request, Holbrooke was assigned to be the Peace Corps Director in Morocco.

Holbrooke also served as vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, managing director of Lehman Brothers, managing editor of Foreign Policy, and director of the Peace Corps in Morocco.