The Foreign Service Journal, March 1938
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gL AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ★ * JOURNAL * * SO? PATE DE FOIES GRAS IS GOOSE-LIVER PASTE! From Our Book of Permanent Set-ups FOOD & BEVERAGE DEPARTMENT At all times chefs should write their menusin English,and if chefs have to use a foreign name at¬ tached to any dish, it should be ex¬ plained in English. How MANY TIMES have you scanned a menu...stammered and stumbled on French w ords you can’t pronounce? If you have ever had that unhappy experience,you’ll easily understand why NO FRENCH ON THE MENU is an iron-bound rule with us! It’s just one of more than 2,000 rigid regulations that make up our book of permanent set-ups. These set-ups, or rules, run our hotels. It is a set-up, for example, that our doorman must be sure you’ve left noth¬ ing in your taxi. It is a set-up that our telephone mouthpieces be cleaned reg¬ ularly. It is a set-up that waiters’ hands be inspected daily. Next time you "register-in” we’d like you to stop at the Hotel New Yorker and see what a difference it can make in extra comfort and satisfaction. 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH HOTEL NEW YORKER AVENUE Ralph Hitz, 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. CONTENTS (MARCH, 1938) Cover Picture Temple at Selinunte, Sicily WOODWARD & LOTHROP (See also page 162) Page 10th, 11th, F and G Streets Service Glimpses 137 Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Foreign Service Personnel An Interview with G. Howland Shaw 139 "A Store Worthy of the Nation's Capital” ‘"Big Ben”—Photograph 142 Country Dancing By Paul Unger 143 The Department of State as an Agency of Peace By jay Pierre pent Moffat 144 Press Comment on the Service 146 Double Economy Letter By Gilbert R. Willson 147 Combined Diplomatic and Consular Office at Budapest By Howard K. Travers 147 Rope Making in Sicily Tupers By Paul J. Reveley 148 Islands of the Sun and Moon By Evelyn Strong 150 The Grabbing Brake By Homer Brett 152 Mount Rushmore Memorial 154 ^ pairs $ ^ The Issuance of Visas by American Consuls Abroad By John Farr Simmons 156 Ambassador Dodd Speaks at Leipzig By Ralph C. Busser 156 Buying two pairs of these fine Papiamento hose certainly is double econ¬ By Wallace E. Moessner 157 omy. All-silk chiffon with triple¬ The Editor’s Column 158 News from the Department heel, run-stop garter welt, lisle By Robert P. Joyce 159 plaited toe, sturdy-sheer weight Promotions 161 all-silk with linen toe. There are Births 162 Marriages 162 many shades from which to Contributors 162 choose. Visitors 162 News from the Field 163 Jane Wandl Dul-Glo, a two- A Political Bookshelf Cyril Wynne, Review Editor thread stocking, sheer as a cob¬ The Great Powers in World Politics web, for evening Reviewed by Charles If'. Yost 164 wear $1.15 The Annexation of Bosnia, 1908-1909 Reviewed by George Verne Blue 164 Hosiery Aisle 19, First Floor Escape to Cairo Reviewed by Henry S. Villard 165 Foreign Service Changes 168 Address your order or communi¬ New Entries Into Service 170 Albert Harry Elford 174 cation to Woodward 8C Lothrop, Citizenship Questions 174 Washington, D. C., United States Journal Scholarship 174 of America, attention Mrs. Mari¬ Visa Inquiry 175 Notes on Service Needs an Tolson. She will personally By “Saturn” 199 shop for you, and send your or¬ Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ der according to instructions. 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 S, 1879. 133 When it’s time to be a Golden Wedding Am . Whiskies. Outstanding products of two of Amer¬ ica’s foremost distilleries . famous for flavor since the ’80’s ... the distinctive light-bodied taste of these superb whiskies is pleasing palates from Auckland to Zurich. Golden Wedding Rye and Bourbon are Ambassadors of Good Taste to Americans living abroad. The whiskey advertised herewith is intended only for export distribution in Bond. SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP., EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, N. Y. 134 THE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Export Lines 181 American Security and Trust Company 169 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba - 198 Thoughts of Boissy D’Anglas. Le Paris 199 Brewood—Engravers :—,—: 194 Calvert School 196 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai 198 WASHINGTON Chase National Bank 195 Chrysler Corporation -— - 136 Continental Hotel—Paris 198 Crillon, Hotel—Paris 198 Federal Storage Company .. 176 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. _ 138 FOREIGN Service Foreign Shoppers Service — 194 France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris __ 198 Officers Have A Particular General Motors Export Co. ... 179 Interest In The Many George V, Hotel Paris .... 198 Activities of Government. Grace, W. R., and Company . 172 Grand Hotel—Paris 199 Glide Bros. Co. 194 • When next you visit Harris and Ewing 196 The Capital, stay at the insti¬ Hennessy & Co., Jas.—Cognac 198 tution where international per¬ International Telephone & Telegraph Co 193 sonages reside and great events Kressmann & Co., Ed.—Bordeaux — 199 occur. Le Boissy D’Anglas—Paris 199 Single Rooms from $4 Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co. 170 Mayflower Hotel .. 135 Double Rooms from $6 Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 197 Metropole Hotel Shanghai 198 Subject to a Diplomatic Meurice Hotel—Paris 198 Montgomery \\ aid .... 186 Discount Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of Amer¬ ica, Inc. 189 Munson S.S. Lines ... 173 National City Bank 187 National Geographic Magazine 191 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. 194 New York World’s Fair, 1939, Inc. 166-167 New Yorker Hotel —II COVER Pagani’s Restaurant—London .... 198 Palace-Amhassadeurs Hotel—Rome 199 Pan-American Airways, Inc. 180 Park Hotel—Shanghai 198 Plaza Hotel 173 Prince de Galles Hotel—Paris . 198 Rockefeller Center III COVER Sapp, Earle W„ C.L.U. 194 Savoy-Plaza Hotel 180 Schenley Products «. _ 134 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai ... 198 Security Storage Company of Washington .... 169 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. ... 183 Tyner, Miss E. J. .... 196 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company 177 1 nited Fruit Company 170 l nited States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 195 l nited States Lines — 171 United States Steel Products Co. 189 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV COVER Woodward and Lothrop ...... 133 135 JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICEJOURNAL • Modern styling, con- venience and safety characterize Dodge appointments. Its dig¬ nified beauty makes it worthy of any lovely environment. In all ways it is dependable. £4 L»~ St W - Export Division Detroit, Mich., U.S. A. 136 Inspector Nathaniel P. Davis shakes hands across the equator near Quito, with the Honorable Antonio G. Gon¬ zalez, American Minister to Ecuador. Family Reunion at Windsor, Ontario—Vice Con¬ sul and Mrs. Jack G. Dwyre welcome Consul Gen¬ Minister Frank P. Corrigan (hand extended> and Colonel Pate eral and Mrs. Dudley G. Dwyre of Panama. (tallest) meeting Mrs. Corrigan and their children at Cristobal. Taken at the golf match between the Department and the British Embassy—Left to right: Paul Ailing, Joseph Flack, Joseph Ballan- tine, Selden Chapin, Richard Southgate (all of the Department), and Mr. H. O. Chalkley of the British Embassy. IDY KEEPING their cars Firestone patented Gum- tire-safe, careful drivers Dipping Process. This everywhere are doing their counteracts the internal share in preventing friction and heat that thousands of accidents every ordinarily cause blowouts. year. With the men who PROTECTION AGAINST PUNCTURES. enforce the laws, they form Two extra layers of Gum- a safety partnership that will Dipped cords under the save many precious lives. tread add strength to the tire Today, motorists by the and guard against punctures. thousands are changing to Firestone Triple-Safe Tires Every driver owes it to because they demand three- himself and his family to Section of smooth, join the Firestone SAVE A worn tire which is way tire protection. always susceptible LIFE Campaign by to punctures, PROTECTION AGAINST SKIDDING. blowouts and equipping his car with new skidding The scientific tread will stop Firestone Triple-Safe Tires a car up to 25% quicker. —the safest tires that money PROTECTION AGAINST BLOWOUTS. can buy. See your nearest Every fiber of every cord in Firestone Dealer today and Listen to the Voice of Firestone Monday evening, at 8:30 every ply is saturated with learn how little it costs to E. S. T. from United States over short wave W2XAF 9530kc liquid rubber by the make your car tire-safe! firestone TRIPLE-SATE TIRES Copyright. 193S, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 138 THE FOREIGN JOURNAL tfC PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION m VOL. 15, No. 3 WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH, 1938 Foreign Service Personnel An interview with G. Howland Shaw, Chief, Division of Foreign Service Personnel THE new administration of Foreign Service Per¬ What, for instance, do you include in your idea sonnel has been in office for about five months. of a comprehensive picture of an individual? I think the Service as a whole would be interested I include all the factors that influence his effi¬ in anything you might say as to policies and aims ciency: his health, his morals, the condition of his and first impressions. family, to mention a few of the more obvious ones. I am very glad of a chance to talk about Foreign It is self-evident that a man who is worried about Service Personnel problems to a representative of his health—whether with or without good reason— the JOURNAL.