Daughter of a Jewish family that converted to Roman Catholicism, first woman to be US Secretary of State believed in the power of statecraft, but use of military force when needed
WASHINGTON Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American statesmen and women, died Wednesday of cancer, her family said. She was 84.
Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States, breaking the glass ceiling as the first female secretary of state and setting the pace for other women to follow. “She has watched her world fall apart, and ever since, she has dedicated…