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The Foreign Service Journal, November 1936 g/« AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE * * JOURNAL * * VOL. XIII NOVEMBER, 1936 No. 11 W I T II PICTORI A L REGISTER SUPPLE M E N T jtCOME z- To 'W Manhattan’s !»t» 7»,' Biggest Hotel *v* The Hotel New Yorker is big even for the city of skyscrapers, but the service you get is warmly personal and attentive. Our guests are t*\\ kind enough to tell us that we’ve learned well s f» y % Iff the art of making folks feel at home. ml There are 2,500 rooms . each with tub and \ »< shower bath, radio, Servidor, circulating ice water . luxuriously furnished and equipped with beds designed for deep, restful slumber. SjS The four air conditioned restaurants are noted for the excellence of food and drink and for S' reasonable prices. .yi If L |i Right in the heart of mid-town Manhattan, we ■1: are near the leading theatres and department u ** w stores; with our own private tunnel to the r M r Pennsylvania Station and subway. ,!? 5 I-1* L o i" « r K ;J'; 5 Nowhere else will you find such values as the 5 El« New Yorker offers you; with a large number of ?;? 5 rooms for as little as $3.00. For good business, for good living, for good 5.5? 5 times, come stay with us at the Hotel New Yorker. u 25% reduction to diplomatic and consular service NOTE: The special rate reduction applies only to rooms on which rate is #4 a day or more. Nil HOTEL NEW YORKER 34th Street at Eighth Avenue New York City Directed by Ralph Hitz, President Private Tunnel from Pennsylvania Station The nearest fine hotel to all New York piers Other Hotels Under Direction of National Hotel Management Co., Inc., Ralph Hitz, President NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI : BOOK-CADILLAC, DETROIT : CONGRESS HOTEL, CHICAGO HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON : HOTEL ADOLPHUS. DALLAS : HOTEL NICOLLET, MINNEAPOLIS CONTENTS (NOVEMBER, 1936) WOODWARD & LOTHROP COVER PICTURE 10th, 11th, F and G Streets Summer Palace of the Governor General, WASHINGTON, D. C., U. S. A. Algiers "A Store Worthy of The Nation’s Capital” (See also page 610) PACE AN ADVENTURER TURNS DIPLOMAT By Ernest L. Ives 601 A SCHOOL FOR BUDDING AMBASSADORS ..... 606 ON THE WHARVES AT ST. NAZAIRE. Illustration 607 THE “LAST MARCH” OF THE G. A. R. By Edwin Schoenrich 608 TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 610 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 611 We are all ready to do your NEWS FROM THE FIELD 614 Christmas Shopping A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF Cyril Wynne, Review Editor Long before even a sprig of holly Janies G. Blaine makes its appearance, Woodward & Lothrop has been "behind the scenes” Reviewed by E. Wilder Spaulding 616 —diving into the excelsior of innumer¬ FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 618 able big packing cases and crates— looking for delightful, practical, and DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CHANGES 620 above all NEW Christmas presents— and you benefit by the results. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE CHANGES 620 Simply write to us—give us your BIRTHS, MARRIAGES 621 Christmas Shopping List—or very good descriptions of the persons for IN MEMORIAM 621 whom you want us to choose gifts— and, almost the minute your order is ESTATES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS received, our Personal Shoppers will By Glenn A. Smith 622 spring into action—choosing, packing, wrapping (festively for very little THE WORLD SERIES more), and rushing them off to their By Paul W. Eaton 634 destinations at the proper date. A nice idea is for you to enclose your greeting VISITORS 640 cards with your order, unless you wish us to choose them, too. POST PREFERENCE REPORTS, Verse By George Wilton, Jr. 640 Mrs. Tolson will be most ACCOMPANIED BY PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT happy to help you—simply address her at Woodward & Lothrop, Washington, Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as D. C., U.S.A. second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 597 • THE SPORTSMAN’S MOTOR CAR because ilie New DeSoto Airstream responds instantly and thrillingly. The powerful, efficient DeSoto engine gives this motor ear rapid acceleration and more speed than you will ever want. Fleet and smart in appearance, it becomes the center of attrac¬ tion wherever it goes. The Automatic Overdrive Transmis¬ sion which reduces engine speed one third is now available for even smoother and more economical performance. For a new thrill in motoring, get behind the steering w heel of this great car. Drive it over rough roads, smooth roads, up hills— everywhere DeSoto will react like the thoroughbred it is. CHRYSLER CORPORATION • EXPORT DIVISION DETROIT, MICHIGAN, U. S. A. CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH SIX • CHRYSLER AIRSTREAM SIX • CHRYSLER AIRSTREAM EIGHT • CHRYSLER AIRFLOW EIGHTS • CHRYSLER MARINE New elegance of inferiors places the New DeSoto Air- ENGINES • FARGO TRUCKS • DODGE SIX • DODGE TRUCKS • stream miles ahead of molar cars of comparable price. DE SOTO AIRSTREAM SIX • DE SOTO AIRFLOWS » E SOTO 598 To Tatronize Our cAdvertisers Is to Insure a Tigger and Tetter Journal for Our Service. Thoughts of INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Security and Trust Company 619 WASHINGTON Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba 639 Brewood (Engravers) 635 Calvert School 632 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai 639 Chase National Bank 630 Chesterfield Cigarettes . 600 FOREIGN Service Chrysler Corporation 598 Officers Have A Particular Cognac—Jas. Hennessy & Co ..... 639 Crillon, Hotel—Paris 639 Interest In The Many Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest 639 Activities of Government. Federal Storage Company 626 France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris 639 • When next you visit General Motors Export Co 617 The Capital, stay at the insti¬ George V, Hotel—Paris 639 tution where international per¬ Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company 623 sonages reside and great events Grace, W. R., and Company 621 occur. Glide Bros Co. 632 Harris and Ewing 635 Hungaria Hotel—Budapest 639 Single Rooms from $4 International Telephone & Telegraph Co 629 Double Rooms from $6 Kressmann & Co., Ed. Bordeaux 639 Subject to a Diplomatic Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co. 620 Discount Martinique Hotel 631 Mayflower Hotel . 599 Merchants Transfer and Storage Company . 633 Metropole Hotel—Shanghai . 639 Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of Amer¬ ica, Inc 635 Munson S.S. Lines . 631 National Geographic Magazine 615 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. 632 New Yorker Hotel II Cover Pagani’s Restaurant—London 639 Palace-Ambassadeurs Hotel—Rome 639 Pan-American Airways, Inc 624 Park Hotel—Shanghai 639 Plaza Hotel 625 Powhatan Hotel 635 Rockefeller Center III Cover Sapp, Earle W., C.L.U. - 632 Savoy-Plaza Hotel ... 625 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai 639 Security Storage Company of Washington 619 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. 637 Tyner, Miss E. J 632 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company . 627 United Fruit Company 620 Llnited States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 630 United States Lines 624 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover Woodward and Lothrop 597 599 Hi THE AMERICAN FOREIGN QjERVICE JOURNAL I ■H . A Tribute to Football by Grantland Rice Blocking' backs and interference - Fifty thousand wild adherents - Tackle thrusts and headlong clashes. Two yard bucks and dizzy dashes. * Head and shoulder, heart and soul. Till you fall across the goal. 600 THE FOREIGN JOURNAL dJ! PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN SERVICE ASSOCIATION ■m VOL. XIII, No. 11 WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER, 1936 An Adventurer Turns Diplomat By ERNEST L. IVES, Consul General, Algiers WHEN Mr. William Shaler was sent in May, Nantucket, a whaler, detained for alleged illicit 1815, with Commodore Decatur and Cap¬ trade, and the Hazard of Providence on a tain Bainbridge as joint commissioners to nego¬ voyage similar to their own and detained on sus¬ tiate a treaty of peace with the Dey and Regency picion of being English, as it was armed and a of Algiers, Mr. Shaler on the flagship Guerriere part of its cargo consisted of muskets. The Gov¬ must have felt quite at home. Born at Bridge¬ ernor demanded that the muskets on the Hazard port, Connecticut, he went to sea in 1778 at be surrendered. Captain Rowan refusing to com¬ the age of thirteen. Nine years later he was ply, the Governor ordered that all Americans master of a merchantman and engaged in foreign found on shore be arrested and imprisoned in the trade. Castle. Among those arrested were Mr. Shaler In 1801 he and Mr. and Mr. Cleveland. The Richard I. Cleveland pur¬ latter wrote that: chased at Hamburg a ship, “Our arrest prevented the Lilia Byrd of Ports¬ our sailing, as we intend¬ mouth, Virginia, for a ed to do, the same evening. trading voyage around the Having passed a most world.1 Both qualified uncomfortable night, with¬ navigators, they flipped a out beds, in the Castle, we coin to decide who would were annoyed by myriads be the master. Mr. Shaler of fleas, and having been won and Mr. Cleveland without food of any kind, went along as supercargo. since noon the preceding From Hamburg they day, we wrote to the Gov¬ sailed to Rio de Janeiro, ernor in the morning, re¬ thence around Cape Horn questing to be provided to Valparaiso where, upon with food and beds.” arrival, they found four Their letter was re¬ American vessels — the turned unopened. A mes¬ Meantinomo and Oneco of sage, however, from the Norwich, detained and Governor informed them cargo confiscated on the that they were at liberty charge of having supplied to return to their vessel. English privateers with “We were,” wrote Mr. provisions, the Tyral of Cleveland, “doubtful of the propriety of availing Voyage and Commercial En¬ terprise, by Riclmrd J. Cleveland, ourselves of the liberty so published by Pierce, Boston, 1850.
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