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The Foreign Service Journal, December 1941 w GAY, COLORFUL RIO, home of the new 50,000-watt "RADIO CITY", NEW YORK—home of NBC Interna¬ RCA shortwave transmitter that will link Brazil to tional Stations WNBI and WRCA, broadcasts to Cen¬ "neighbors" thousands of miles away I tral and South America every day, in five languages. Brought Closer than Ever! • • • New Super-Powered RCA in hundreds of RCA installations in all parts of the world. They are Transmitter Will Link Brazil RCA VICTOR "MASTER OF THE AIR¬ giving it power enough to girdle to All the Americas! WAVES” Model Q16 . makes the world the globe. your neighbor. H emisphere solidarity is today more Behind it lie the engineering prin¬ vital than ever before. And Brazil’s ciples developed in RCA Labora¬ new 50,000-watt RCA transmitter tories—whose same engineers and will play a vital part in maintain¬ scientists developed the amazing ing that solidarity . linking the 5 new 1942 "Master of the Airwaves’ countries of North and South Amer¬ RCA Victor radios and RCA ica with the speed of light! Victrola phonograph- In this new transmitter, now un¬ radios . one more der construction for Rio de Janeiro’s reason for you to look "Radio Nacional,” RCA engineers for the RCA Victor are embodying the experience ga i ned name before you buy! RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., Camden, New Jersey, U. S. A. A Service of the Radio Corporation of America CONTENTS DECEMBER, 1941 Cover Piciiire: Swiss Soldiers on Training March See page 714 Seven Men on a Flying Carpel By Gay W. Ray 665 Swiss National Defense By Captain H. R. Schmid 668 The Czar, the Baroness and the Holy Alliance By Evelyn Strong 672 The Thomas Jefferson Memorial By Edward Kelly 674 Ada-Kaleh By Sybil Sawyer Smith 677 What’s Wrong with the Consular Service Courtesy The Honorable Wesley Frost 679 BARBADOS RIO DE JANEIRO Editors’ Column 682 SANTOS MONTEVIDEO BUENOS AIRES Fortnightly Sailings from New York News from the Department 688 SANTOS (SAO PAULO) RIO DE JANEIRO CRUISE RATES: $360 TOURIST; $480 News from the Field 686 TRINIDAD FIRST CLASS. ($550 CERTAIN SEASONS) The Bookshelf Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor 688 A Message from The President 690 A Message from The Secretary of State 691 Foreign Service Changes 694 Service Glimpses 695 Visitors 719 Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. DECEMBER. 1941 661 The Curtiss SB2C-1 Dive Bomber is representative of Curtiss-Wright’s comprehensive part in the defense program. Powered by a 1700 H.P. Wright Cyclone 14 cylinder engine and equipped with a Curtiss Electric Propeller, it is the hardest hit¬ ting Dive Bomber in the world. Four Curtiss-Wright airplane plants are turning out planes designed for Combat, Dive Bomb¬ ing, Scout-Observation, Cargo Transport and Training. From six plants Wright Aircraft Engines roll at the rate of millions of horsepower per month. Four more plants are devoted to the manufacture of the Curtiss Electric Propeller. Curtiss- Wright, in factories totalling more than 11,000,000 sq. ft. of floor area is in all - out production 24 hours a day. BUFFALO, NEW YORK ST. LOUIS, M0| PATERSON, N. J. COLUMBUS, OHH CALDWELL—CLIFTON, N. J. 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Southern Engraving Company 710 Communicate with us direct about your insurance needs, or apply through your Texaco Petroleum Products 700 own insurance agent or broker. Turner’s Diplomatic School 717 Tvner, Miss E. J 717 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company. 705 Underwriters 663 United Fruit Company 716 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 715 United States Lines 699 United States Steel Export Co 708 AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL Walcott-Taylor Co., Inc 719 UNDERWRITERS CORPORATION COVER Waldorf-Astoria Hotel . IV in John Street, New York 340 Pine Street, San Francisco Westinghouse Electric International Company 703 Woodward & Lothrop._ 706 Additional Company Offices in: Havana, Cuba Manila, P. I. Bogota, Colombia, S. A. Shanghai, China Hong Kong Please mention THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Representatives in Key Cities throughout the World when writing to advertisers. DECEMBER, 1941 663 AIRPLANES and armored cars—“blitz track blocks for tanks and reconnaissance cars, buggies” and barrage balloons — cruisers and gas masks, seadrome lighting buoys and hundreds cannons — tanks and trucks — these and countless of other products made from natural or synthetic other weapons now being built for our National rubber for the armed forces of the United States. Defense Program require thousands of different In addition, metallic belt links, bomb cases, shell rubber parts. guard facings and many other non-rubber And they are getting them — on or ahead of munitions are now in production. And if our schedule! country calls upon us for further help, it will be Firestone plants in the United States are busily given cheerfully, quickly, efficiently and engaged in making tires of all types, bullet- intelligently. resisting tubes, bullet-sealing fuel and oil tanks, For Defense is First at Firestone! MILITARY TIRES ★ TUBES ★ GAS MASKS * TANK TRACKS ★ BULLET-SEALING CELLS PARACHUTE SEATS * HOSE ★ BALLOONS ★ SEA DROME LIGHTS CRASH PADS AND OTHER RUBBER AND METAL PRODUCTS THE FOREIGN SMI JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. 18, No. 12 WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER, 1941 Seven Men On A Fly ins* Carpet By GUY W. RAY, Second Secretary, Mexico City VISITS to thirty Foreign Service posts in the Harry P. Beam of Illinois, Congressman Vincent F. other American Republics, calls on all the Presi¬ Harrington of Iowa, and Congressman Albert E. dents and Foreign Ministers of seventeen of these Carter of California, accompanied by Mr. Jack K. countries and talks with numerous high officials and McFall, Secretary of the Subcommittee, and Guy W. business men convinced five members of the Sub¬ Ray, Foreign Service Officer, left Miami, Florida, committee on Appropriations of the House of Repre¬ on August 11, 1941, for a tour by air of seventeen sentatives that the Foreign Service of the United other American republics and a visit to Trinidad. States has made the Good Neighbor policy and The primary purpose of the trip was to inspect hemispheric solidarity something more than mere our Foreign Service establishments. Ten Embassies, high-sounding phrases. seven Legations, and thirteen consular posts were Chairman Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan, Con¬ visited. At the capitals where the missions and con¬ gressman John M. Houston of Kansas, Congressman sular offices are not combined, inspections were also V » * I i IV | £ KU ;i i" jjji t -I 1* 4 Interview with President Eduardo Santos of Columbia. From left to right: Congressman Carter, Foreign Service Officer Ray, President Eduardo Santos, and Chairman Rabault. DECEMBER. 1941 665 made of the latter. Completing an inspection of thrill came on the flight over the Andes from Men¬ thirty posts in a period of less than sixty days re¬ doza, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile. The flight is a quired a pace which was far from easy to follow. short one measured in time, but one hour of bounc¬ Between going to bed in the early hours of the ing about over snow-covered mountains seemed like morning due to the desire of Chiefs of Mission, an eternity to most of the passengers who had never Foreign Service Officers, local American organiza¬ taken the flight before. Several of us remarked that tions, and officials of the various Governments to we looked back on the flight with considerable emo¬ shower us with hospitality, we sometimes almost tion and some pleasure, especially as we knew we met our selves coming out of the hotel to catch the didn’t have to do it again. early morning plane. We’ll probably never catch up The real flying thrill of the trip was furnished in fully on our sleep until after the war is over. a special flight by chartered plane from San Salva¬ Fortunately, the group met with almost uniform¬ dor to Guatemala City.
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