The Foreign Service Journal, January 1936
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g/a AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE * * JOURNAL * * where the sand-man is on duty every night You’d never call the Hotel New Yorker a “sleepy” Then, one luxurious stretch in the deep, inviting place. In fact, everyone knows it’s very wide awake. bed—the kind of bed you dream of—not on—and But because even the livest guest likes to sleep the next thing you know, a cheerful voice is giv¬ soundly when he sleeps, we have story after story, ing you your call over the telephone—“Good floor after floor . .. 2,500 rooms in all . dedicated Morning, it’s 7:30.” Really, it’s no wonder that to sleep. our guests always enjoy themselves so much, con¬ As the elevator operator’s pleasant “good night” sidering the sound, restful slumber that fits them follows you down the hall, you don’t even for the day’s work or play. hear the sound of your own footsteps in But that’s not all. Expense accounts the soft, thick carpet. As you open your 25^6 reduction have a way of keeping within reason to diplomatic and door, you find your night-light on, your in the New’ Yorker. Which also helps consular service bed turned down, your pajamas lying our guests sleep well. And that’s no N OTE : the special rate there, awaiting you. reduction applies only story. to rooms on which the rate is $4 a day or more. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Company, Inc. • Ralph Hitz, President Private Tunnel from Pennsylvania Station OTHER HOTELS UNDER SAME DIRECTON: HOTEL LEXINGTON, NEW YORK • NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI • BOOK-CADI LLAC, DETROIT . THE ADOLPHUS, DALLAS • HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON CONTENTS (JANUARY, 1936) COVER PICTURE A Bride of Galicnik (See also page 20) THE UTILITY OF A TRAINED AND PERMANENT FOREIGN SERVICE, Prize Essay By George V. Allen 5 OVERTURE IN NAPLES By Coert du Bois 8 ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IN FRENCH Underwood By Mabel A. Brown .. 10 Special Type¬ CONVENTION COMMENDS RECIPROCAL TRADE writer with 1-Key Key-Set Tabulator. AGREEMENTS 12 THE SAN BLAS ISLANDS By William C. Burdett 13 BATHS UP THE KUROBE Cushioned Typing By Helen E. Van A ken __ .. 16 A LINK WITH THE PAST By Henry S. Waterman 18 makes it Quieter! PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT 19 HE Underwood Special Typewriter repre- 1 NEW DUTIES OF FOREIGN SERVICE 19 sents the outstanding achievement of the typewriter engineer. It is the only standard TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 20 typewriter made that is equipped with the fa¬ NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 21 mous Champion Keyboard developed by world- NEWS FROM THE FIELD 24 renowned speed typists in the interest of greater A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF typing speed and comfort. See the Underwood Special at the nearest Underwood Elliott Fisher Cyril Wynne, Review Editor Branch or telephone or write for a demonstra¬ ‘‘Dwight Morrow” tion on your own work and in your own office. Reviewed by C. W 26 Every Underwood Typewriter is backed by “The Great Wall Crumbles” nation-wide, company-owned service facilities. Reviewed by George Verne Blue 27 “The First American Neutrality” J ypewriter Division Reviewed by G. V. B. 27 UNDERWOOD FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES . ..... 28 ELLIOTT FISHER COMPANY DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CHANGES ... 31 Typewriters . Accounting Machines . Adding Ma chines . Carbon Paper, Ribbons and other Supplies CONSUL GENERAL CUNNINGHAM PRAISED 36 Homer Bldg., 13th & F Streets, N. W. SERVICE ARTIST (Jerry Lee Smith) 47 Washington, D. C. EPISODE OF THE SOUTH SEAS Sales and Service Everywhere By Mrs. Will L. Lowrie 47 JAPANESE WAR MINISTER ENTERTAINS SECRE¬ TARY DERN (Photo) 48 UNDERWOOD BIRTHS 52 IN MEMORIAM 52 Special SERVICE VISITORS .. ... 56 TYPEWRITER Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. r A h rough its world-wide organization of assembly plants, sales offices, distributors and dealers, General Motors is in a unique posi¬ tion to facilitate delivery and subsequent ser¬ vice on its products in any part of the world. CHEVROLET • CHEVROLET TRUCKS • PONTIAC OLDSMOBILE • BUICK LASALLE • G.M.C. TRUCKS • CADILLAC GENERAL MOTORS EXPORT COMPANY 1775 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY 2 To ^Patronize Our cAdvertisers Is to Insure a cBigger and ^Better yournal for Our Service. INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Security and Trust Company 29 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba 55 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai , 55 Chase National Bank 42 Continental Hotel—Paris 55 Crillon, Hotel—Paris — 55 Diplomatic and Consular Institute, The 42 Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest 55 Federal Storage Company 39 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co . 4 France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris 55 General Motors Export Co. 2 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company 37 Grace. W. R., and Company — 51 Foreign Service Gude Bros. Co 30 Harris and Ewing 34 Officers Harvey Institute 38 Hungaria Hotel—Budapest 55 International Telephone & Telegraph Co 49 Have A Greater Interest Le Boissy D’Anglas Restaurant—Paris 55 Than Ever Before In Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co— 30 America’s Capital . Martinique Hotel 43 Mayflower Hotel — 3 • When visiting this Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 45 Metropole Hotel—Shanghai 55 beautiful and lively city, Montgomery Ward and Co —- 52 stay at The Mayflower Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. 45 where international per¬ Munson S.S. Lines 50 sonages reside and great National Geographic Magazine 33 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co 30 events occur. New Yorker Hotel II Cover • Rates are no higher Pagani’s Restaurant—London * 55 Palace-Ambassadeurs Hotel—Rome 55 than at less finely appoint¬ Pan-American Airways, Inc. 43 ed hotels. Park Hotel—Shanghai 55 Plaza Hotel 31 Powhatan Hotel 34 Single Rooms from $4 Rockefeller Center III Cover Double Rooms from $6 Sapp, Earle W.. C.L.U. _ 30 All with bath, of course Savoy-Plaza Hotel 31 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai 55 Security Storage Company of Washington 29 The MAYFLOWER Smith's Transfer and Storage Co 53 Sooony-Vacuuin Oil Co., Inc 41 WASHINGTON, D. C. Strasbourg, Restaurant Brasserie de—Marseilles 55 Tyner, Miss E. J 34 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company . 1 ha United Fruit Company- 40 3 aigg L. POLLIO United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company _. 40 a Bfflyg 2 Easy g: United States Lines 38 :E BESS tj Manager von Zielinski, Carl M. J. 50 m BESS C: .-sHsg'aA Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover Woodward and Lothrop 35 3 PERFORMANCE PROVES THAT- Frcry one of ike winning curs FIRESTONE HIGH SPEED TIRES at Indianapolis was equipped with Firestone Gum-Dipped ARE BLOWOUT-PROOF AND GIVE Tires. Not one had a blowout or tire trouble of any kind YOU GREATEST TRACTION AND PROTECTION AGAINST SKIDDING DURING fall and winter months pavements are often slippery with rain, ice and snow and it is important that you have the safest tires you can buy. Tests by a leading university show that Firestone High Speed Tires will stop a car from 15% to 25% quicker than other well known makes. Gum-Dipping makes the cord body more flexible, For eight years Firestone' Gum- tougher and stronger. Leading race drivers, who know Dipped Tires have been hn die winning cur in the Pikefs Peak tires, will not risk their lives on any other make. Climb where a skid nteems death Few car owners fully realize the danger in driving on unsafe tires at today’s high f speeds. Last year thousands of accidents were JF caused by blowouts, punctures and skidding. Don’t take chances! Equip your car with Firestone High Speed i Gum-Dipped Tires — the safest tires ever built known the world over as the Masterpiece of Tire Construction. y XWm Listen to the Voice of Firestone Monday evening over Short Wave W2XAF—9530 kc. Scientific recording instrument used by leading university shows Firestone High Speed Gum-Dipped Tires stop a car 15% to 25% quicker than other well-known makes firestone OF TIRE CONSTRUCTION 4 THE FOREIGN S JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. XIII, No. 1 WASHINGTON, D. C. JANUARY, 1936 The Utility of a Trained and Permanent Foreign Service BY GEORGE V. ALLEN, Vice Consul, Athens IN developing strength and This essay was adjudged the best sub¬ The outlook in the United efficiency in any organiza¬ mitted on this subject in the recent States was toward the devel¬ prize essay competition, referred to on tion, whether for educational, page 692 of the December JOURNAL. opment of our country’s phys¬ industrial, political, or other ical resources, and industry purposes, the first requisite for and trade offered not only the success is to draw to that organization men of greatest promise to young men for achieving posi¬ ability. No business institution of Governmental tions of authority and power but also for indulging service, however carefully devised its program or that innate yearning for the building of empire that exalted the ideas of its promoters, can develop so generally animates man’s activity. Because of the utility unless conditions exist which assure for that allurements of commercial and industrial life, busi¬ institution or service a capable personnel. To at¬ ness annually drew a disproportionate number of tract such a personnel, a career must have two the more able and ambitious men in the country, outstanding characteristics, namely, opportunity while the term Government clerk or political ap¬ and permanence. pointee was too often synonymous with that of The serious young student in planning his mediocrity. life’s career is drawn first to those fields of The past few years have happily witnessed a endeavor which will he of high importance dur¬ marked increase in the prestige of ail Government ing the generation which lies before him, careers careers in America.