Mar twenty sixth 2022
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, who died in Washington, DC, on March twenty third, served underneath Bill Clinton as UN ambassador earlier than turning into America’s first girl secretary of state. She recalled America’s failure to cease the Rwandan genocide as her best remorse. NATO’s eastward growth was amongst her successes—and private, given her historical past. Born in Prague in 1937, along with her household she fled Nazism, then communism. Mrs Albright had thought that her household was Catholic. Only after she was secretary of state did she be taught that she was born Jewish and misplaced three of her grandparents within the Holocaust.■
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This article appeared within the United States part of the print version underneath the headline “America’s first feminine secretary of state has died of most cancers, aged 84”