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The Foreign Service Journal, May 1938 <7/« AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ★ * JOURNAL * * WHY A TELEPHONE GIRL TEACHES OUR BELL-BOYS From Our Book of Permanent Set-ups SERVICE DEPARTMENT — Voice culture for bellmen trainees: classes are to be conducted by the Chief Telephone Operator who will teach diction and pronuncia¬ tion. WE BELIEVE YOU appreciate having a Hotel New Yorker bellman call your name clearly . correctly. That’s why we have our tele¬ phone girls teach them how. It’s only a detail. But we’ve made “set-ups,” or rules, of more than 2,000 details. They control everything at the New Yorker . from the way our bellman folds your coat in packing ... to the way our chambermaid turns down your bed each night. All together, these 2,000 “set¬ ups” assure that Hotel New York¬ er service . the result of new, forward-marching ideas in hotel management ... is the finest hotel service you’ve ever had! We’d like to prove this to you the next time you take a trip to New York City. Maids at the Hotel New After learning her “set-ups,” Here’s a typical N. H. M. “set¬ PRESIDENT Yorker go to a training school and passing tests, the maid is up”: telephones in all rooms —the first in hotel history. qualified to clean your room. are disinfected regularly. National Hotel Management Co., Inc. 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH HOTEL NEW YORKER AVENUE Ralph Hits, President George V. Riley, Manager NEW YORK 25% REDUCTION TO DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE. - - NOTE: THE SPECIAL RATE REDUCTION APPLIES ONLY TO ROOMS ON WHICH THE RATE IS $5 A DAY OR MORE. JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL CONTENTS (MAY, 1938) Cover Picture WOODWARD & LOTHROP Central Plaza, Barcelona 10th, 11th, F and G Streets (See also page 301) Page Washington, D. C., U. S. A. United States Flying Fortresses Over the Andes By Robert Olds 271 Some Problems of Administration By Nathaniel P. Davis 274 The Riddle of Paul Redfern By Henry S. Villard 277 Yeni Turkce By Charles W. Lewis, Jr 281 Disaster of the Flag Ship Peacock By Edmund Roberts 282 Letters 28D The Foreign Service Thirty Years Ago By Paul C. Daniels 286 Small Talk at Big Parties By Troy L. Perkins 287 Some Problems in Extradition By Joseph R. Baker 288 The Editors’ Column 290 News from the Department By Robert P. Joyce 291 Keep Your Births 293 Beauty Discount List 293 News from the Field 294 With You A Political Bookshelf Every woman has her preferences when it Cyril Wynne, Review Editor comes to beauty preparations, yet purchasing The Study of International Relations in the them in a foreign country is often far from United States, Survey for 1937 Reviewed by E. Wilder Spaulding 296 easy. Here in our Toiletries Section are the His Excellency, George Clinton: Critic of the products of world-famous houses with which Constitution we can keep you supplied. To mention Reviewed by George Verne Blue 296 only a few—Elizabeth Arden, Coty, Helena In Memoriam 300 Rubinstein, Dorothy Gray, Charles of the Foreign Service Changes 302 Ritz, H. H. Ayres, Frances Denney, Kath¬ Trade-Agreement Notes ryn Mary Quinlan, Marie Earle. So let us By Edward I. Mullins 310 help you keep your beauty with you always. New Legation and Consulate General at Baghdad TOILETRIES, AISLES 11 AND 13, FIRST FLOOR By George V. Allen 314 Errata 332 Address your communications to Mrs. Marian Tolson, Woodward & Lothrop, Washington, D. C., United States of America. She will personally shop for Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ you anil send your order according to tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as your instructions. second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. 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JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Export Lines 313 American Security and Trust Company 303 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba 330 Boissy D'Anglas, Le—Paris 330 Thoughts of Brewood— Engravers 327 Calvert School — 326 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai - — — 330 WASHINGTON Chase National Bank 323 Chesterfield Cigarettes 270 Chrysler Corporation 268 Continental Hotel—Paris . 330 Crillon, Hotel—Paris 330 Federal Storage Company .... 298-299 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 266 FOREIGN Service Foreign Shoppers Service 327 France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris .. — 330 Officers Have A Particular Gatewood House . 327 Interest In The Many General Motors Corporation — 311 Activities of Government. George V, Hotel—Paris 330 Grace, W. R., and Company .• 317 Grand Hotel—Paris 330 • When next you visit Harris and Ewing 307 The Capital, stay at the insti¬ Harvey Institute . .. _— 320 tution where international per¬ International Telephone & Telegraph Co. 325 sonages reside and great events Kressmann & Co., Ed.—Bordeaux 330 occur. Le Boissy D’Anglas—Paris 330 Single Rooms from $4 Manhattan Storage & Warehouse Co 304 Mayflower Hotel .... - 267 Double Rooms from $6 Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 320 Metro pole Hotel—Shanghai 330 Subject to a Diplomatic Meurice Hotel—Paris 330 Montgomery Ward 316 Discount Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of Amer¬ ica, Inc — 323 Munson S.S. Lines — 305 National City Bank . 321 National Geographic Magazine — 301 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. ... 326 New Yorker Hotel _ II COVER Pagani’s Restaurant—London 330 Palace-Ambassadeurs Hotel—Rome 330 Pan-American Airways, Inc. — 312 Park Hotel—Shanghai 330 Plaza Hotel 305 Prince de Galles Hotel—Paris 330 Rockefeller Center III COVER Sapp, Earle W„ C.L.U 326 Savoy-Plaza Hotel —— — 312 Schenley Products 319 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai 330 Security Storage Company of Washington — 303 Soeony-Vacuum Oil Co„ Inc. 315 Southern Engraving Co 329 Turner’s Diplomatic School 326 Tyner, Miss E. J. 326 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company 309 ( nited Fruit Company __ — 304 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 323 United States Lines 308 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV COVER Woodward and Lothrop .._ 265 267 in Chrysler-Plymouth. Engineered to the cars—one of the world’s most popular be- highest standards of the motor industry, cause it is one of the world’s best values. CHRYSLER CORPORATION • Export Division • DETROIT, MICHIGAN, U.S.A. 268 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Heingartner in the Swiss moun tains after their wedding. Stuart Grumman visits the Consulate General at Harbin, while traveling from Dairen to Moscow. When the picture was taken it was about 30° below zero. E. Talbot Smith leading the field at Milan. He is now Consul at Nairobi. R. Henry Norweb, Minister to the Do¬ minican Republic, and Mrs. Elena Mc- Clintock, at San Pedro de Macoris, D. R. Ed Trueblood, with Elizabeth and Guerdon, en Hartwell Johnson cooling off in Colon, en route for Santiago. route from Montreal to Panama. ■■ ■■ ■■ Chesterfields are made of mild ripe tobaccos ... rolled in pure cigarette paper ... the best ingredients a cigarette can have For You...there’s MORE PLEASURE in Chesterfield’s milder better taste Copyright 1938, LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. 270 THE FOREIGN rtt PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. 15, No. 5 WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY, 1938 Fniiecl States Flying Fortresses Over the Andes By ROBERT OLDS, Lieutenant Colonel, Air Corps BREAKFAST ill Miami on Thursday and lunch flight. Airplane commanders supervised the tuning in Buenos Aires on Friday. This gives in and loading of their ships. Navigators drew the a few words the picture of the recent flight of six proper maps and charts and checked the courses Army B-17’s, commonly known as “Flying Fort¬ and distances. Engineers checked maintenance resses,” from the United States to Buenos Aires kits and helped the mechanics give last minute and return. The purpose of the flight was, first, checks to all parts of the planes and motors. to attend the inauguration of President Roberto As this was to be a “Good Will” Flight, all Ortiz of Argentina and, second, to serve as am¬ guns and other types of armament were removed bassadors of “Good Will” from the United States and the enlisted armament man was taken off the to all of the South American countries. crew list reducing the normal crew7 of nine to 4 Preparations for this flight were very brief, officers and 4 enlisted men. One additional officer this being in line with the training of the GHQ was added to the crew of one plane, a meteorol¬ Air Force units.
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