Cavendish W. Cannon

Cavendish W. Cannon was a long-time state department employee.

During World War II Cavendish served as the Assistant Chief of the State Department's Division of Southern European Affairs. [ [http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/53-3-12.shtml the Problem of Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina during World War II ] ] For a time Cannon's work took him to Syria. [ [http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1957&_f=md003761 excerpt from journal of Eleanor Roosevelt] ]

He served as U.S. ambassador to Greece from 1953 to 1956 and U.S. ambassador to Morocco from 1956 to 1958. During the late 1940s Cannon served as United States ambassador to Yugoslavia [Jones, Howard. "A New Kind of War", America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine". (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 126] Among his fellow ambassadors was the Czechoslovak Ambassador Josef Korbel. Cannon was one of the people who spoke in favor of Korbel's pro-democratic leanings when he was trying to gain assylum in the United States. [Dobbs, Michael. "Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth Century Odyssey". p. 130, 137. see at http://books.google.com/books?id=dhZghL4Rr-EC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=%22cavendish+cannon%22&source=web&ots=KbsJPOWs2F&sig=OBZpWbGnUv-f7fMrO9yikBCuG10#PPA130,M1]

In 1948 Cannon was the chair of the US delegation to the Danube Conference.

Cannon was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [ [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=0c0e61cb2b86b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “Church Member Nominated Ambassador to Finland,”] "Ensign", March, 1975 p. 78]

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