The Foreign Service Journal, February 1958
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FEBRUARY 1958 The AMERICAN FOREIQN SERVICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Copies of the Protective Association booklet “Croup Insurance Program—June, 1957” are available at: Protective Association office, 1908 C Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Foreign Service Lounge, 513, 801 - 19.h Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Foreign Service Institute, Jefferson-Tyler Bldg., 1018 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va. Administrative Offices at foreign posts. This group insurance program may meet your needs. It is worth your study. The Protec¬ tive Association plan is one of the most liberal of such plans in the United States. Members are receiving benefits in various claims at a present rate of more than two hundred thousand dollars annually. The plan: Provides a valuable estate for your dependents in the event of your death. Protects you and your eligible dependents against medical and surgical expenses that might be a serious drain on your finances. Includes accidental death and dismemberment insurance. Entitles members and their eligible dependents to over-age-65 insurance, under the pertinent rules and regulations of the Protective Association. Personnel eligible to participate in the plan are: Foreign Service Officers, Department of State. Foreign Service Staff, Department of State. Foreign Service Reserve Officers, Department of State, when on active service. Permanent American employees of the Foreign Service of the Department of State. ICA (Department of State) Officers, when on active service abroad. ♦ Address applications and inquiries to: THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION c/o Department of State, Washington 25, D.C., or 1908 G Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C. Whew—Fait Accompli! WE'VE MOVED TO OUR NEW BUILDING (WITH PARKING LOT) 600 S. PULASKI ST. BALTIMORE 23, MD. Gllmor 5-4420 The last bolt of cloth is now in its rack. The last sewing machine has been fastened to the floor. We’ve hung up our "Home Sweet Home” sign—now it’s business as usual! Frankly, we’re kinda proud of the way our moving went off without a mishap. But—maybe it comes from the experience of performing many seemingly impossible feats: like being the industry-recognized authority for Wash 'N’ Wear . like being the leading source for the world’s fabric "jewels” . like answering thousands of letters and getting shiploads of clothing to customers all over the world. FANTABULOUS Wash rN’ Wear—the first in the industry . and unchallenged in "self press”, hot weather, completely-tailored weightless clothing . ■ 29.90 and 32.90 Lightest weight, hand-tailored 2-ply tropicals . lightest on earth 45.90 Largest-selling, over $80 Hand-needled tuxedo in the nation _ 47.90 Wash 'N’ Wear all-weather raincoat, America’s favorite $30 coat 19.75 SEE SWATCH FOLDER AT ADM. OFFICE! VO SWARTZ DIRECTIONS ■ Coming in on route 40 from Silver Spring, etc.? Drive in on Edmondson Ave., Franklin St. or Wilkens Ave. (as the 43 Minutes to Our case may be) to Pulaski St. stoplight and turn RIGHT onto Pulaski St. for 15 blocks (deadend) to our Parking Lot & new Building. • Coming in from Washington on the new Expressway? Turn LEFT at Monroe St. (traffic light, left turn island, etc.) proceed on Monroe Parking Lot from for 4 blocks past Montgomery Ward Bldg, (on left) to Eagle St. for 2 blocks and LEFT again onto our Private Parking Lot next to our new Building. W ashington D. C. FEBRUARY, 1958 1 bourbon whisky makes the difference! KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISK* Cocktails made with fine Old Forester . always a delight¬ ful experience. You’ll find Old Forester makes a memorable Manhattan, an unmatched Old Fashioned Cocktail. Or, if you prefer, drink an Old Forester Highball. However you try it, you, too, will say “This is my whisky!” Try Old Forester in your favorite cocktail or as a highball. As it says on the label, “There is nothing better in the market.” Our Export Division is at your service, ready to give care¬ ful attention to every detail. You’ll like dealing with them. Write or cable your requirements today. Old Forester Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky 100 and 86 proof—Both Bottled in Bond Manhattan Cocktail Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. Export Division. 1 Park Avenue, New York 16, N. Y., Cables: EXFORESTER, NEW YORK 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published monthly by the AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOC. The Foreign Service Journal is not official and material appearing herein rep¬ resents only the opinions of the writers, and is not intended in any way to indi¬ cate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. FEBRUARY, 1958 Volume 35, Number 2 CONTENTS page 19 IMPORTANCE OF U. S. INFORMATION PROGRAM by George V. Allen AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION EDWARD T. WAILES, President JOSEPH C. SATTERTHWAITE, Vice President 20 JESUIT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE EMPEROR OF CHINA DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager by Martin F. Herz BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary BOARD OF DIRECTORS 24 AMERICAN VS. A CONTINENTAL EDUCATION by Professor Lothar Kahn E. ALLAN LIGHTNER, JR., Chairman G. FREDERICK REINHARDT, Vice Chairman THOMAS S. ESTES, Secretary-Treasurer NORBERT L. ANSCHUETZ 26 I LIKE TODAY’S VIKINGS FINDLEY BURNS, JR., Assistant Secretary-Treasurer by Necha Kaar STANLEY M. CLEVELAND RANDOLPH A. KIDDER MAX V. KREBS ROBERT H. MCBRIDE 52 THE WATCH THAT LINCOLN GAVE MARGARET J. TIBBETTS by IPilmon Menard JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD JOHN H. BURNS, Chairman departments CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. NORMAN HANNAH WILLIAM L. KRIEG 4 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES JOHN T. WHEELOCK PATRICIA M. BYRNE EDWARD W. CLARK g USIA FOREIGN SERVICE PROMOTIONS JAMESON PARKER W. T. M. BEALE, JR. HENRY C. RAMSEY STATE DEPARTMENT FOREIGN SERVICE PROMOTIONS GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor DAVID McK. KEY, General Manager HESTER H. HENDERSON, Editorial and Adv. Asst. 18 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO WINIFRED B. FOULDS, Circulation Manager by James B. Stewart The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an 28 SERVICE GLIMPSES unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the United States and the Department of State. The As¬ sociation was formed for the purpose of fostering esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service 30 EDITORIAL PAGE and to establish a center around which might be New7 F. S. Legislation Needed grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. The Editors of the FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 31 WASHINGTON LETTER will consider all articles submitted. If accepted, the author will be paid one cent a word at time of publi¬ by Gwen Barrows cation. Photographs accompanying articles will, if accepted, he purchased at one dollar each. Five dollars is paid for cover and full page pictures. 38 THE BOOKSHELF Copyright, 1958, by the American Foreign Service Association. 56 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Issued monthly at the rate of $4.00 a year, 35 cents 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, Cover Photo by Paul Child: D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Torre de Belem, Printed in U.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com¬ pany, Baltimore. Estoril (1514), Portugal. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS BIRTHS February, 1958 ENGLAND. A daughter, Kelley Brennan, born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. England, November 20, 1957, in Saigon. FORD. A son, Robert Michael, born to Mr. and Mrs. William J. Ford, American Distilling Company American Foreign Service Protective Association.. September 2, 1957, in Washington, D. C. American Security & Trust Company GAMON. A son, John Arthur, II, born to Mr. and Mrs. David L. American Storage Company Gamon, December 27, 1957, in Washington, D. C. Barclay, The Bookmaker, The GOERRA. A son, James Oscar, born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar H. Guerra, Bowling Green Storage & Van Company November 5, 1957, in Santiago de Cuba. B re wood Engravers HARTMAN. A daughter, Johanna Lise, born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation Calvert School A. Hartman, November 16, 1957, in Saigon. Chase Manhattan Bank KAPLAN. A daughter, Amy Pearsall, born to Mr. and Mrs. George Chatel, Millicent, Realtor R. Kaplan, November 30, 1957, in Saigon. Chrysler Corporation MALEADY. A daughter, Sarah Ann, born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Circle Florists DACOR Maleady, October 4, 1957, in Washington, D. C. Diplomatic Appliance Corporation SPURGIN. A daughter, Sarah Hamilton, born to Mr. and Mrs. E. Easy Washing Machine Company Richard Spurgin. November 10, 1957, in Saigon. Educational Consulting Service Firestone Tire & Rubber Company WHEELOCK. A son, Robert Hendy-Pooley, born to Mr. and Mrs. John First National City Bank of New York Wheelock December 30, 1957, in Washington. D. C. Mr. Fowler Enterprises Wheelock is a member of the JOURNAL Editorial Board. Francis Scott Key Apartment Hotel General Electronics General Motors Corporation MARRIAGES Goodman, Henry J. & Company Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company NARTEN-MANZILLO. Teresa Manzillo and Philip C. Narten, Foreign Grace Line Hilltop House Apartments — Service Officer, were married December 7, 1957, in Washington, Hilton Hotels International D. C. Hotel 2400 PAPPANO-CORBET. Constance Visart Corbet and Albert E. Pappano, Maphis, Alan Insurance Mayflower, The Foreign Service Officer, were married December 23, 1957 in McLachlen Banking Corporation Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Pappano is assigned to the Department Merchants Transfer & Storage Company of State as Chief, Trade Agreements Branch in the Office of Montgomery Ward International Trade. Park Central Hotel Philco International Corporation PIEZ-HARRISON. Mary Ellen Harrison and J. William Piez, Foreign Presidential Gardens Service Officer, were married January 11, 1958 in Philadelphia. Saccone & Speed Ltd. Mr. Piez is assigned to the Department of State. Seagram’s V.O. Security Storage Company of Washington Service Investment Corporation IN MEMORIAM Smith's Transfer & Storage Company State Department Federal Credit Union ARMSTRONG.