First woman to have held the position of Secretary of State, the high-ranking diplomat died at the age of 84, Wednesday, March 23rd.
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Madeleine Alrbright understood better than anyone the price of war and exile. Arrival in the United States at the age of 11, daughter of Czechoslovak refugees who escaped the Nazi persecutions and then to the communist gangue, she could not remain indifferent, in recent weeks, to the fate of Ukraine, tortured by Russia.
First woman to have held the position of Secretary of State (1997-2001), under the chairmanship of Bill Clinton, the high-ranking diplomat died of cancer suites at the age of 84, has announced his family Wednesday, March 23rd.
On February 23, the day before the triggering of the war in Ukraine, she still published a tribune in the New York Times, in which she felt that Russian President Vladimir Putin would make a “historical error” if he was going to ‘act. She also summoned some memories. In early 2000, then Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright was one of the first US officials to meet Vladimir Putin, who had just taken possession of the Kremlin. “Small”, “pale” and “coldness almost reptilien” were the notes she threw in his notebook after a three-hour meeting.
The Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute on Wednesday to a “brilliant diplomat, a visionary leader, a pioneering brave and a dedicated mentor”. In his communiqué, he logically recalled the course outside Madeleine Albright and its complex origins. His parents – his father was a Czech diplomat – had angled his name and converted to Catholicism. Despite its fine knowledge of European history, Madeleine Albright would only have discovered very late, in 1997, its Jewish origins and the fact that the essence of his family had perished in the Holocaust.
Checking character
Madeleine Albright studied political science at Wellesley College and married a magnet of the press, Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, with whom she had three daughters, before divorce, in 1982.
It was in 1977 that it discovered the scenes of power, within the Carter administration, working with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the National Security Advisor. The latter had been his thesis director, which she had devoted to the press during the spring of Prague, in 1968.
Teacher at Georgetown University, she quickly became an intellectual reference within the Democratic Party on Foreign Policy, developing a valuable network of knowledge. She joins the team of Mike Dukakis, unhappy candidate in the 1988 presidential election. It was on this occasion that she meets Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas, the national ambitions.
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