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... for Davies and Service, it was the end of two brilliant careers. For the country they served, it would have even darker implications because they were the best of an era, and the Foreign Service does not produce that many men of rare excellence.
davies, john paton, jr.— David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest source
[Davies] was one of the finest observers of oriental countries that we ever had.
davies, john paton, jr.— George F. Kennan. source
I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.
marsden hartley— letter to A. Stieglitz, February 8, 1913, as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 44
