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FEBRUARY 1970 • SIXTY CENTS IN THIS ISSUE: Where Do We Go From Here? New Directions The Diplomat’s Commitments NEW WINSTON SUPER KINGS! FOREIGN SERVICEJjni||||g| AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION CONTENTS: FEBRUARY 1970, Volume 47, Number 2 THEODORE L. ELIOT, JR., President JOHN E. REINHARDT, First Vice President C. WILLIAM KONTOS, Second Vice President 16 Where Do We Go from Here? BOARD OF DIRECTORS Barry Zorthian CHARLES W. BRAY, III, Chairman RICHARD T. DAVIES, Vice Chairman WILLIAM G. BRADFORD, Secretary-Treasurer 20 The Diplomat’s National and Transnational Commitments BARBARA GOOD, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer ALAN CARTER Horst Mendershausen DONALD EASUM WILLIAM HARROP 34 New Directions ERLAND HEGINBOTHAM GEORGE B. LAMBRAKIS Carleton S. Coon, Jr. PRINCETON LYMAN ROBERT NEVITT 37 An Arthurian Fable STAFF R. B. Horgan THOMAS S. ESTES, Executive Director MARGARET S. TURKEL, Executive Secretary 38 Washington Is Home CLARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant Corinne C. Zimmermann LOUISE H. FEISSNER, Personal Purchases MARGARET B. CATON, Membership Secretary JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD OTHER FEATURES: Communication re Ambassador Galbraith’s DAVID T. SCHNEIDER, Chairman Speech, by James D. Phillips, page 12. ARCHIE BOLSTER, Vice Chairman CHARLES A. KENNEDY AMBLER MOSS VICTOR B. OLASON DEPARTMENTS CLINT E. SMITH 2 A Message from the Board JOURNAL SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Editor 4 Washington Letter DONALD DRESDEN, Editorial Consultant MCIVER ART & PUBLICATIONS, INC., Art Direction Ted Olson ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES 23 AFSA News SASMOR AND GUCK, 295 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017 (212) 532-6230 10 Special Book Essay—“Ambassador’s Journal” ALBERT D. SHONK CO., 681 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. 94105 (415) 392-7144 JOSHUA B. POWERS, LTD., 5 Winsley Street, London 41 The Bookshelf W.l. 01-580 6594/8. International Representatives. 49 Letters to the Editor ©American Foreign Service Association, 1970. The Foreign Service Jodrnal is published twelve times a year by the American Foreign Service Association, 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20037. PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: Susan Trinka, “Rooftops of Second-class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Dubrovnik,” cover; S. I. Nadler, “Life and Love in the Foreign Printed by Monumental Printing Co., Baltimore. Service.” page 50. The FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL is the journal of professionals in foreign affairs, published twelve times a year by the American Foreign Service Association, a non-profit organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for International Development or the United States Government as a whole. Membership in the AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is open to the professionals in foreign affairs serving overseas or in Washington, as well as to persons having an active interest in, or close association with, foreign affairs. Dues are $30 annually for members earning over $15,000; for those earning less, dues are $15.00. For subscription to the JOURNAL, one year (12 issues); $6.00; two years, $10.00. For subscriptions going abroad, except Canada, add $1.00 annually for overseas postage. ment, working conditions, -and evolution of the foreign- affairs machinery of the Government. There must be a constant interchange of views between the membership and the Board. The process will be equitable and effective only if the interchange involves all active A MESSAGE members. The Board will shortly be in touch with post AFSA Chapters, -where these exist, about improving communication, and will ask for the help of the mem¬ FROM bership in establishing Chapters where there are none. The Board will also sound out the membership in Washington about the means of achieving better com¬ THE BOARD munication here. Openness is a principle which AFSA applies internally, as well as a goal to be achieved between the official foreign-affairs community and its constituency outside the Government. The second -area of Board action involves AFSA’s relationship with the leadership of the foreign affairs Q agencies. The Board is committed to the principle that ^^INCE the Board election of 1967, the Association the Association should be an active, perhaps combative, has become a force to be reckoned with. and certainly independent organization. It has won increasing recognition from the leadership The Board will devote -particular attention to the of the foreign-affairs agencies as the authoritative voice concerns of the Staff Corps, the backbone of the Ser¬ of their personnel. vice. The status and prospects of the Staff Corps need It is forging links to the foreign affairs community in to be clarified as soon as possible. It is time that its the Congress and outside the Government. members found the voice they need. AFSA belongs to In “Toward a Modern Diplomacy,” it has presented them as much as to any other group in the Foreign the elements of reform which are essential if the Gov¬ Service. ernment is to develop a rational and efficient machinery The bedrock of AFSA’s concerns lies in the bread- for the execution of foreign policy in the years ahead. and-butter issues which affect the conditions of work It has made tangible progress in protecting the mem¬ and daily life of every member. The Board will have bers’ interests: the travel allowance, the temporary¬ proposals to make on a number of these. Both because lodging allowance, and the reduction of projected in¬ it symbolizes existing inequities and because members creases in health-insurance premiums. are out of pocket every time they move to a new In the 1969 Board election, the members of the assignment, the transfer allowance will rank first on this Association voiced their overwhelming approval of the list. attitude, approach, and accomplishments of the outgoing The third -area of Board action is that involving who Board of Directors. The mandate is unmistakable. The we are and what we do. This is a time of transition in members want more. The new Board is pledged to give America’s view of its role in the world. AFSA needs to them more. know what our fellow-citizens think about our foreign The Board is an action group which the members affairs. Concerned Americans need to know that mem¬ have set in motion, not a disembodied committee to bers of this association, too, have some considered which they have ceded their right of discussion and their thoughts on that subject, -because they are concerned power of decision. It will succeed to the extent that the Americans themselves and because they are profession¬ members make their wishes known, maintain a high als devoting their lives to work in diplomacy. level of support, and provide the manpower that is The Board plans to sponsor a conference on the needed if the Association’s programs are to be carried foreign affairs profession. In addition to high Adminis¬ out. tration officials, members of the Congress, and AFSA The first of the areas in which the Board must act members stationed in Washington, we will invite inter¬ involves the character of the Association itself. AFSA’s ested citizens from all over the country. We will seek membership now comprises less than half of those funds to allow AFSA members serving abroad to partic¬ eligible to join. Some feel that AFSA is not relevant to ipate. their concerns and needs. Some are not aware of -the active role the Association has assumed. Some do not * * * understand that, if we are to move forward, we must all do so together. The Board will soon mount an intensive The Board takes office at a time when the leadership membership drive, designed to reach all who are eligi¬ of the foreign affairs agencies is searching for answers to ble, but who are not yet members. AFSA acts in -the the questions which the Association has raised. As an interests of all Foreign Service personnel in the State organization of men and women who have chosen to Department, AID, and USIA, and all Foreign Service serve their country in the work of foreign affairs, we employees of those agencies should belong -to it. believe we are particularly qualified to help in that Expression of the will of the membership only at search. As an independent organization, we intend to two-year intervals is not good enough for an organiza¬ keep putting the questions. We look forward to finding tion that is continuously seeking to determine policies the answers together, in the interest of our common and implement programs affecting the terms of employ- cause. 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, February, 1970 State your standards. 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