Alternate Destinies (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo)

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Goebbels, Joseph
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (1897-1965) is a highly respected American diplomat, including Secretary of State under President's George C. Marshall (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo and Harry S. Truman. The third out of five children of German Immigrants, Goebbels lived a happy youth in Illinois, where he developed a strong passion for his adopted home. Joseph was able to avoid conscription into the US Army due to a deformed right foot (the result of a childhood attack of osteomyelitis and a failed operation to correct it). He instead studied law and literature at the University of Chicago before applying for service in the US State Department in 1921, and was accepted. He held posts in, , [[FTBW|Brazil}} and in the 1920's and early 1930's before receiving his first ambassadorial post to Assiniboia in 1937, and was considered a rising star in the State Department. In 1941, with the election of President , Goebbels was transfered to the , where he only served a few months before the outbreak of the . During the war, Goebbels primarily served as an envoy between the US and other members of the , helping to arrange the Amphibious Invasion of the Confederacy by the Latin American nations. After the election President Marshall, Goebbels was named his Secretary of State, and managed to help keep the alliance together in the final months before the surrender of  in 1946. After the re-election of Marshall in 1949, Goebbels remained as Secretary of State and was instrumental in forming the  coalition of nations, and the response to the . After the election of  in 1953, Goebbels resigned from the position of Secretary of State and retired to his home in Chicago, where he started righting his memoirs and papers on international affairs, as well as giving lectures at the University of Chicago. He died of a heart attack in his sleep on May 6, 1965 at the age of 68