1. Josef Korbel was a Czech-American diplomat and political scientist.
14 Facts About Josef Korbel
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Josef Korbel's parents gave her the common Czech nickname of Andula.
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Josef Korbel called her Mandula, a portmanteau of "Ma Andula", while Anna called him Jozka.
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At the time of their daughter Madeleine's birth, Josef Korbel was serving as press-attache at the Czechoslovak Embassy in Belgrade.
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Josef Korbel served as an advisor to Edvard Benes, in the Czech government in exile.
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Josef Korbel gave speeches for the BBC's daily broadcasts to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
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Josef Korbel returned to Czechoslovakia after the war, receiving a luxurious Prague apartment expropriated from Karl Nebrich, a Bohemian German industrialist expelled under the Benes decrees.
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Josef Korbel was appointed as the Czechoslovak ambassador to Yugoslavia, where he remained until the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948.
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Josef Korbel served as its chair, and subsequently wrote several articles and a book on the Kashmir problem.
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In 1964, with the benefaction of Ben Cherrington, Josef Korbel established the Graduate School of International Studies and became its founding Dean.
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Yashina Tarr sees that Josef Korbel has succeeded in providing an objective assessment of the United Nations' work and recommends it to readers.
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Josef Korbel observes that the huge number of footnotes and quotations testify to Korbel's vast research put into this "valuable contribution" on the Kashmir dispute.
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Werner Levi observes that Josef Korbel tends to abstain from giving his own judgements and evaluations.
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Philipp Harmer, an Austrian citizen, filed a lawsuit claiming that Josef Korbel's family is in inappropriate possession of artwork belonging to his great-grandfather, the German entrepreneur Karl Nebrich.