Wartime refugee who became US secretary of state

Madeleine Albright 1937-2022 In 1997, Madeleine Albright became the first female US secretary of state. It was a remarkable achievement for a woman who had only started her political career at 39, and who had arrived in the US as a refugee at 11. She had twice had to flee her homeland of Czechoslovakia – first to escape fascism, and then to escape communism – and this turbulent background would inform her diplomacy, said The Times. Albright “saw America as a champion of freedom and democracy. She believed in its continued global leadership in a post-Cold War era, and in the importance of its transatlantic alliances.” When it came to questions of action or inaction, her “mindset”, she famously said, was Munich, while most of her generation’s was Vietnam. She was born…

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