[1] He returned to State Department assignments in Washington, DC, an inspection tour of US diplomatic missions in South America, and a subsequent inspection tour of United States diplomatic missions in the Far East.

[1] In 1952, after his retirement, he returned to Washington for a month to conduct a confidential review, at the request of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, of the record of O. Edmund Clubb, a U.S. diplomat who had been accused of being a Communist sympathizer by Senator Joseph R.

After his retirement, he lived in Glens Falls and Silver Bay, New York, and later in Winter Park, Florida.

[16] His autobiography, Few Dull Moments: A Foreign Service Career, was self-published in 1967.

[17] His papers are in the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri.