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Pai. orr. ACETATE, one of the world’s great textile fibers CHEMICAL FIBERS • TEXTILES . CHEMICALS . CELLULOSE . PLASTICS JANUARY, 1953 I "FOR 25 YEARS I’ve been a steady Chesterfield smoker," says prominent tobacco farmer Pearsall L. Rogers. "They buy the world’s best tobaccos and make the world’s best cigarette." « MULLINS, S. C. AND NOW- CHESTERFIELD FIRST TO GIVE YOU SCIENTIFIC FACTS IN SUPPORT OF SMOKING A responsible consulting organization reports a study by a competent medical specialist and staff on the effects of smoking Chesterfields. For six months a group of men and women smoked only Chesterfield —10 to 40 a day—their normal amount. 45 percent of the group have smoked Chesterfields from one to thirty years for an average of ten years each. At the beginning and end of the six-months, each smoker was given a thorough examination including X-rays, and covering the sinuses, nose, ears and throat. After these examinations, the medical specialist stated... "It is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat and accessory organs of all participating subjects examined by me were not adversely affected in the six-months period by smoking the cigarettes provided." Remember this report and buy Chesterfields — regular or king-size. ★ CONTAINS TOBACCOS OF ASK YOUR DEALER FOR BETTER QUALITY AND HIGHER CHESTERFIELD-EITHER PRICE THAN ANY OTHER WAY YOU LIKE 'EM KING-SIZE CIGARETTE Buy CH ESTE R FI ELD./l/luch Milder Copyright 1952, LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published monthly by THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION JANUARY 1953 Volume 30, Number 1 CONTENTS page 17 THE MEANING OF THE RULING IN THE VINCENT CASE FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST AND THE FOREIGN SERVICE THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 18 BEDFORD INDIANA PERSPECTIVE by Marlin F. Herz Honorary President DEAN ACHESON, Secretary of State • 20 BELLES LETTRES by Richard L. Brecker Honorary Vice-Presidents 23 THE IMPACT OF ADMINISTRATION ON THE THE UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE FOREIGN SERVICE by Richard H. Stephens THE COUNSELOR JOHN D. HICKERSON, President 25 AMERICAN SCHOOL AT TANGIER by Dorothy Seelye Franck CHARLES E. BOHLEN, Vice-President BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 27 TAKING THE CURE AT VICHY by J. Rives Childs board of directors 32 THE STARLING by Horatio Mooers TYLER THOMPSON, Chairman V. LANSINC COLLINS, JR., Vice-Chairman 34 MARTIN SCHAFFNER’S B-17 by Arthur L. Paddock, Jr. EDWARD T. WAILES STEPHEN WINSHIP FRED W. JANDRY, Secretary-Treasurer departments Alternates PHILIP W. BONSAL 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS WILSON C. FLAKE EDWARD S. MANEY 14 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart THOMAS F. VALENZA MISS MARCARET P. HAYS, Assistant Sec.-Treas. 28 EDITORIALS journal editorial board Secretary Acheson AVERY F. PETERSON, Chairman Secretary Designate Dulles J. GRAHAM PARSONS LOUIS J. HALLE, JR. 29 FOREIGN SERVICE SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT RAY THURSTON CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. 30 SERVICE GLIMPSES EDMUND GULLION RICHARD A. POOLE 35 NEWS FROM THE FIELD LOIS PERRY JONES, Managing Editor GEORGE BUTLER, Business Manager Story of the Month by John A. Noon LEE CLARK, Editorial Assistant (Continued on page 59) 38 THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. deWolf, Review Editor George H. Reese Frances M. Dailor Denys P. Myers Lloyd D. Black George A. Tesoro The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the 40 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT United States and the Department of State. The As¬ sociation was formed for the purpose of fostering 44 IN MEMORIAM, MARRIAGES esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the 60 FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES improvement of the Service. The FOREIGN SERVICE JouitNAJC is not official and 60 BIRTHS material appearing herein represents only personal opinions, and is not intended in any way to indicate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. The Editors will consider all articles submitted. If accepted, the author will be paid a minimum of one cent a word on publication. Photographs ac¬ companying articles will, if accepted, be purchased at one dollar each. Five dollars is paid for cover pictures. Reports from the Field, although not paid for. are eligible for each month’s $15 Story-of-the- Month Contest. Copyright, 1952, by the American Foreign Service COVER PICTURE: President-Elect Dwight D. Eisen- Association. Issued monthly at the rate of $4.00 a year, 40 cents hower. Photo by Fabian Bachrach. a copy, by the American Foreign Service Association, 1908 G Street, N. W„ Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Printed in U.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com¬ pany, Baltimore. Pseudonyms may be used only if your letter includes your correct name and address. GOLF SCORES AND PROMOTION LISTS Vienna. Austria November 12.1952 To the Editors, FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: Being a persistent golfer myself I always question the score card of anyone who claims to have broken the Sonic Barrier of golf, which I have found to be 80. This score of 80 is not an imaginary figure but has been arrived at after having consulted my scores made during the past 20 years. These scores were made on golf courses throughout the world and under various weather conditions and hazards 57 Overseas Branches which included the early morning fogs and winds at Cape Town, the midday sun in North Carolina and the pre-dusk ARGENTINA CUBA MEXICO Buenos Aires Havana Mexico City Temple Crows at Bangkok. Bartolome Mitre 502 402 Pres idea te /.ayas 54 Avenida I am not questioning Ambassador George Wadsworth’s Flores Cuatro Caniinos 1 sabel la Cutdlica Republica Plaza Once Galiano ability to break tbe Sonic Barrier but I am questioning the La Lonja Rosario PERU Twenty-third St. Lima correctness of the total of the last 9 holes appearing on his BRAZIL Caiharien PHILIPPINES Cardenas Manila score card which is reproduced on page 27 of the October Sao Paulo Manzanillo Prrtca Antonio Prado 48 Juan Luna FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL. Malanzas Port Area issue of the If, after investigat¬ Aveniila Ipiranga Santiago Cebu Porto Alegre ing, it appears that the gentleman in the Department who ENGLAND Clark Field Recife ( Pernambuco) London PUERTO RICO retouched the score card for reproduction is the same person Rio de Janeiro 117 Old Broad St. San Juan Salvador (Bahia) who has failed to include my name on the Staff Promotion West End 2 Jose de Jesus Santos 11 W aterloo PI. Tirol St. Santurce Lists during the past number of years, I would greatlv ap¬ CANAL ZONE FRANCE Arecibo preciate it if you could have both mistakes rectified and the Balboa Paris Bay anion Cristobal Caguas JOURNAL. HONG KONG Mayaguez corrections published in the next issue of the CHILE Hong Kong Ponce JAMES W. ANDERSON REP. OF Santiago INDIA PANAMA Valparaiso Bombay Panama Editor’s Note: Our calculating machine indicates that Mr. Calcutta COLOMBIA SINGAPORE Anderson has a point. The correct total for Ambassador JAPAN Singapore Bogota Tokyo URUGUAY Wadsworth’s last 9 boles is not 36, as published in the Barranquilla Nagoya Montevideo Cali Osaka VENEZUELA JOURNAL, but 37. Our machine was unable to shed any Medellin Yokohama Caracas light upon the second question touched upon in Mr. Ander¬ son’s letter. Head Office: 55 Wall Street, New York ECONOMIC FOREIGN POLICY 67 BRANCHES THROUGHOUT GREATER NEW YORK American Embassy December 4, 1952 The Hague, Netherlands To the Editors, FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: 1 gather from a series of semi-authoritative articles which have recently appeared in such papers as the New York Times and the Herald Tribune and from various “leaks” regarding the so-called “Green Book” that considerable at¬ When traveling carry National City Bank tention is being given by certain groups outside the Depart¬ Travelers Checks or Letters of Credit.