TY - BOOK AU - Gleeck, Lewis E. TI - Dissolving the colonial bond: : American Ambassadors to the Philippines, 19476-1984 SN - 9711002698 U1 - 327.09599 PY - 1988/// CY - Quezon City PB - New Day KW - Ambassadors KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Philippines KW - Foreign relations KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Scene and setting : Mcnutt : proconsular ambassador -- Cowen : Perpetual motion -- Spruance : The glacial admiral -- Bohlen : exiled soviet expert -- Hickerson : by the book -- Stevenson : crusader for camelot -- Blair : two of the beautiful people -- Williams : a saintly presence -- Byroade : the king and I -- Sullivan : solo, not obbligato, in manila -- Newsome and murphy : two arabists in manila -- Amacost : scholar in residence -- Decolonization and the collective profile : The process of decolonization -- Comparisons and parameters -- Performance evaluation -- Miscellany ER -