![Breckinridge Long (1881–1958). Long was an Assistant Secretary in the US State Department during World War II, from 1940-1944. [LCID: 02859]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0f75fa3c-6c5c-4a55-a580-7152e889cc08.jpeg)
Breckinridge Long (1881–1958). Long was an assistant secretary in the US State Department during World War II, from 1940 to 1944. He used his position to implement State Department policies that prioritized US national security over humanitarian concerns. Photograph taken in Washington, DC, United States, August 1943.
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