91a AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 27, NO. 9 JOURNAL SEPTEMBER, 1950 It gives us special satisfaction to supply I. W. Harper Whiskey to men and women in America’s foreign service. We are proud to serve you, and we value highly the example you set for your guests. For these reasons alone, you can depend on our safeguarding I. W. Harper’s unexcelled taste and quality. Cost is never consulted in making this superb whiskey. It’s made for you to pour with pride and drink with pleasure. Distributed overseas by SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION THERE ARE NO FINER WHISKIES THAN AMERICAN WHISKIES I.W.HARPER AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT FOREIGN SERVICE DEAN ACHESON SECRETARY OF STATE HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF JOURNAL STATE THE COUNSELOR GEORGE F. KENNAN PRESIDENT "•» ^ W. WALTON BUTTERWORTH VICE PRESIDENT ELBERT G. MATHEWS SECRETARY-TREASURER JOHN M. MCSWEENEY ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER BARBARA P. CHALMERS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HERVE J. L'HEUREUX CHAIRMAN ELBRIDGE DURBROW VICE CHAIRMAN ELBERT G. MATHEWS JOHN M. MCSWEENEY WILLIAM P. HUGHES ALTERNATES PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY RAYMOND A. HARE HAROLD N. WADDELL THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD JOHN M. ALLISON CHAIRMAN FRANK S. HOPKINS VOL. 27, NO. 9 SEPTEMBER, 1950 G. FREDERICK REINHARDT EUGENE DESVERNINE WI LLI AM J. HANDLEY CORNELIUS J. DWYER JOAN DAVID MANAGING EDITOR COVER PICTURE: The Petersburg, near Bonn, headquarters of the Allied High Com¬ ROBERT M. WINFREE missioners. HICOG photo—courtesy Claude Jacoby. ADVERTISING MANAGER EDUCATION COMMITTEE EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES ON AMALGAMATION 11 NILES W. BOND CHAIRMAN BENJAMIN M. HULLEY By Cornelius J. Dwyer, FSO JOSEPH S. SPARKS MRS. ELBRIDGE DURBROW MRS. JOHN K. EMMERSON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN 15 ALTERNATES By Richard Scott MRS. WILLIAM L. KRIEG EVAN M. WILSON WINNING FRIENDS SOUTH OF THE BORDER 17 ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE By Gilbert Crandall, FSR JACK D. NEAL CHAIRMAN FULTON FREEMAN G. FREDERICK REINHARDT STUART W. ROCKWELL RUMORS IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE 19 DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, II By Herve J. I’Heureux, FSO ALTERNATES MISS G. EDITH BLAND THOMAS S. ESTES REPRINT FROM THE WASHINGTON POST 23 WELFARE COMMITTEE WILLIAM O. BOSWELL THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. deWolf, Review Editor 26 WILLIAM E. FLOURNOY. JR. Frank S. Hopkins A. G. Simson DAVID A. THOMASSON Harvey Boyd Otterman Russell B. Thornton This publication is not official and material appearing: herein represents only personal opinions, and is not in¬ DEPARTMENTS tended in any way to indicate the official views of the Department of Letters to the Editors 3 State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. Twenty-Five Years Ago 14 The Editors will consider all manu¬ scripts submitted to the American Marriages 16 Foreign Service Journal. If accepted, the author will be paid a minimum of Editors’ Column one cent a word on publication. Pho¬ tographs accompanying articles will, The Employee Attitude Survey 22 if accepted, be purchased at one dol¬ lar each. Five dollars is paid for Association Launches Membership Drive 22 cover pictures. News From the Department 24 Copyright, 1950, by the American Foreign Service Association. Service Glimpses 28 Issued monthly at the rate of $4.00 a year, 40 cents a copy by the Amer¬ News From the Field 30 ican Foreign Service Association, 1809 G Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Foreign Service Changes 44 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., un¬ Births — 48 der the Act of March 3, 1879. In Memoriam 50 BE YOUR OWN CIGARETTE EXPERT says-Ralph A.Goss PROMINENT TOBACCO FARMER. DURHAM. N. C. M YOU buy a pack of Chesterfields flA °nd you open it up. 22 2S YOU smell that milder Chesterfield (/STARRING IN "THE PETPETTY GIRL aroma. No other cigarette has it. YOU smoke Chesterfields and prove what every tobacco man knows ... tobaccos that Smell Milder I Smoke Milder 1 '•■■SI Copyright 1950, LIGGETT SC MYERS TOBACCO CO. Letters to the Editors DOES OUR INSPECTION SYSTEM WORK? May 7, 1950 To THE EDITORS, AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: The present inspection system is, I think, subject to abuse. In any case it fails to render the maximum benefit WELLBORN MOTORS, INC. to the Service. Admittedly, very few members of the public at large are even aware of the existence of Foreign Service CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH inspectors. But some Congressmen, who consider the For¬ (DIRECT FACTORY DEALER) eign Service appropriations, probably are. More important, the inspection system can affect the attitudes of Foreign Service officers and employees and the impressions they make upon the public in the performance of their duties. It is even responsible for the advancement of certain officers and employees, and the retardation or separation of others. The essence of my criticism is that the Foreign Service inspectors, as senior and regular Foreign Service officers, are closely allied in habits, sympathies and, frequently, by personal acquaintance with the principal officers of each post they visit. Their inspection cannot be in any way- compared with the impersonal and unbiased examination of a corporation’s financial status which a firm of independent auditors renders annually to the stockholders, -or with the investigation of broader scope sometimes made by a firm of management engineers. Does Advance Notice Distort the Picture? What happens when an inspector visits a post? Usually the date of his visit is known well in advance, and every¬ thing is “spruced up” in anticipation of his arrival. The staff is put on the alert. When the inspector arrives he will, as likely as not, be the personal guest of the principal offi¬ cer; at least the principal officer will surely take pains to wine and dine him. The inspector will probably seek a brief interview with each junior officer and with some of the staff employees; in speaking with him, however, each such subordinate will be well aware that the inspector is really a “buddy” of the principal officer, and will govern HOMER BRETT, FSO (Ret’d) President his tongue accordingly. SIDNEY WELLBORN General Manager It will be obvious that this is written by a junior officer. I am, however, entirely sincere in saying that it has not ANDREW WAHL Sales Manager been inspired by any grievance against any individual in¬ spector. Nor do I mean to suggest that a deliberate collu¬ THOMAS TALBERT Service Manager sion has ever existed between Foreign Service inspectors and principal officers, to the detriment of the Service. My criticism is directed solely against the inspection method and the inherent attitudes it would seem to engender. Call SLigo 1333 1100 EAST-WEST HIGHWAY Must Inspectors be Recruited from the Service? Washington Directory SILVER SPRING, MD. It is my suggestion that the Inspectors’ Corps should be rigidly separated from the remainder of the Foreign Serv¬ ice. Obviously casual outsiders could not be recruited to this duty; the inspectors must be men of considerable back¬ ground and closely acquainted with the requirements of the Foreign Service. Nevertheless, the calling of a Foreign Service inspector is certaiidy a less specialized profession than that of an accountant, an efficiency expert, or a bank examiner. It seems probable that qualified persons, such as members of the State Department outside of the Foreign (Continued on page 5) SEPTEMBER. 1950 3 Aon$/ tfz/uefi/ I y «. M. ^^ UMNO 30 Consulates and legations—taking their cue from the finest hotels and restaurants—have SCAfllp, long depended on Royal Scarlet Foods . relying on their flavor and quality to please the most discriminating of guests. 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A Foreign Service of the maximum efficiency would obviously be in the interests of such organizations as General Electric or Sears, Roe¬ buck. The Service should benefit from the fresh point of view which representatives of such organizations might supply. To revert to the analogy of the auditing of a Corpora¬ tion’s records, it is obvious that there would be little con¬ fidence in the report of an accountant who was an intimate of the officers of the company or who was himself a regular officer thereof temporarily functioning as an “impartial” examiner. The Foreign Service has, in the Selection and Promotion and Review Boards deliberately attempted to establish im¬ partial methods and standards. The need for complete impartiality on the part of the Inspectors’ Corps is no less important; it should contribute both to better morale with¬ in the Service and to greater confidence on the part of the public. FSO-6 • The JOURNAL would welcome further comments on this subject. Meanwhile one other side of the picture was so well presented in the remarks of Chief Inspector Howard K. Travers ivhich were published in the January, 1949, News Letter that we are reprinting excerpts from them here.