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Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. was an American diplomat who served as ambassador to several countries between the 1930s and 1961. He served in the United States Army during World Wars I and II, continuing after the war and rising from an enlisted Private to a commissioned major general.
Following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 at the end of World War I, the Czechs and Slovaks united to form the new nation of Czechoslovakia. The United States recognized Czechoslovakia and commissioned its first ambassador on April 23, 1919.