MIDDLEBURY — A U.S. ambassador’s decision to block a speech by Middlebury College scholar and NATO expert Stanley Sloan resulted in the cancellation of the entire conference where he was to deliver a keynote address last week. The action by Carla Sands, U.S. envoy to Denmark, prompted organizers to scrap the whole event marking the 70th anniversary of the historic alliance of North American and European nations, including the United States. Sloan, a visiting scholar at Middlebury and former CIA analyst, h … (read more)
