‘No, Giovanni. Io dico, ‘Make “ 1 he only whisky bottled under Mine 909"! Ca-na-da Schenley supervision of the Governo 909.'’ Canadese at exactly 90.9 *■ “Ah, si—whisky del Canada!” proof, the one proof of perfec¬ “No, not just any Canadian tion. Nove — zero — nove — whisky. Bring me the one with 909—eapisci?” the naturally fine taste . the Aove—zero—novel Natural one that fills your glass with the mente . il migliore*!” beauty and magic of Canada.” “Non capisco.” '(Translation: 909... naturally... the finest!) (Haichcnlej 7/7777777/777/7/ SCHEME* lTP ©1954 Canadian Schenley, Ltd. AGED AND BOTTLED DNDER SUPERVISION OF THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT* CANADIAN SCHENLEY, LT SERVING YOUR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE IS OUR PLEASURE AND BUSINESS- AMERICAN EXPRESS WORLD SERVICE Here are the world-wide, world-wise services offered^ by American Express . 243 offices in 35 nations i always ready to serve you, completely, expertly, j whatever your needs for business or pleasure. .] MONEY ORDERS TRAVELERS CHEQUES Pay bills and transmit funds Smart travelers insist on with convenient, econom¬ American Express Travelers ical American Express Cheques. They’re 100% safe Money Orders... available ... the most widely accepted throughout the U. S. at Cheques in the world ... on neighborhood stores, Rail¬ sale at Banks, Railway Ex¬ way Express and Western press and Western Union Union offices. offices. OTHER FINANCIAL SERVICES TRAVEL SERVICES Swift . convenient and The trained and experi¬ dependable, other world¬ enced staff of American wide American Express Express will provide air or financial services include: steamship tickets . hotel foreign remittances, mail and reservations . uniformed cable transfer of funds, and interpreters . and plan the purchase and sale of independent trips or es* foreign currency. corted tours. Offices in Principal Cities of the World SHIPPING SERVICES Headquarters: 65 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. American Express offers complete facilities to handle personal and household effects shipments. Also the entire operation of import or export forwarding, including customs clearances and ma¬ rine insurance. NOW IN OUR SECOND CENTURY OF SERVICE MAY. 1954 1 Washington Portrait . Famed Obelisk at Sunset NO. 1 IN A SERIES OF COMPOSITE REPRODUCTIONS OF THE FACE OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK of WASHINGTON, D. C. FOUNDED 1836 LARGEST FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ■ Member Federal Reserve System 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published, monthly by THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION MAY 1954 Volume 31, Number 5 CONTENTS Page 18 ECONOMY . TRUE . AND FALSE by Leon B. Poullada THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE 22 1814 by Charles F. Knox, Jr. ASSOCIATION Honorary President 26 ELEMENTS OF MODERN PEACEMAKING, PART II JOHN FOSTER DULLES, Secretary of State by Louis J. Halle, Jr. Honorary Vice-Presidents THE UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE 30 THEY WILL RETURN by James M. MacFarland THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE THE COUNSELOR THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE 34 REMARKS OF HENRY WRISTON AT FOREIGN JOHN D. HICKERSON, President SERVICE LUNCHEON EDWARD T. WAILES, Vice-President BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 38 JOHN P. DAVIES, JR. board of directors ANDREW B. FOSTER, Chairman V. LANSINC COLLINS, JR., Vice-Chairman departments TYLER THOMPSON PARKER T. HART 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS PHILIP W. BONSAL Alternates 12 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart ROBERT F. WOODWARD 17 NEWS TO THE FIELD by Lois Perry Jones WILLIAM C. BURDETT, JR., Assistant Sec.-Treas. Miss MARGARET P. HAYS, Secretary-Treasurer 31 EDITORIALS ROLLIE H. WHITE, JR. Foreign Service Economies It’s Still an Outrage! journal editorial board RAY L. THURSTON, Chairman 32 SERVICE GLIMPSES Louis J. HALLE, JR. CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. 37 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES EDMUND GULLION RICHARD A. POOLE 40 THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. deWolf, Review Editor LEE E. METCALF Henry B. Cox William L. Smyser EDWARD J. MULCAHY Marjorie M. Whiteman LOIS PERRY JONES, Managing Editor GEORGE BUTLER, Business Manager 42 NEWS FROM THE FIELD JANE D. FISHBURNE, Circulation Manager and Editorial Assistant 48 IN MEMORIAM The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an 55 OUR HERITAGE OF FREEDOM 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¬ 64 FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES sociation was formed for the purpose of fostering esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service 64 AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. 64 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS The FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL is not official and 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. COVER FICITIRE: Danish fishermen mending nets. Photo courtesy Danish information office. Copyright, 1954, by the American Foreign Service Association. Issued monthly at the rate of $3.00 a year, 25 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, 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. ON SELECTION OUT 4677 Natalie Drive San Diego 15, Calif. March 29, 1954 To the Editors, FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: Although I have perused the last several issues of the JOURNAL I have yet to notice any comments from any of the unfortunate few who were victims of the 1953 accelerated selection out program. While I doubt that the JOURNAL will Trade-Builder publish this letter it may be of interest to the editorial staff as expressing the views of one ex-Foreign Service Officer. at work While naturally no one is happy at being considered by the Department as not measuring up, and 1 have no doubt This busy Grace Line Santa is doing more than that we each feel that an injustice was done in our particular just loading and unloading cargo. By helping the case, that is not the subject of my complaint. What I do Americas to trade with each other, she is helping most strenuously object to is the manner in which this to build the expanding world trade essential to selection out process was accomplished. In the first place good international relations. it seems unfair to me to change the rules of the game for a limited period—that is from the end of September to the Grace ships have been helping the Americas do end of the calendar year, 1953. I should think that if the business together for nearly a century. Today rules were to be changed they should be made more or less Grace Line’s fleet of swift, modern Santas is busier than ever, bringing northward the vital commod¬ permanent and not for a limited duration. ities our nation needs from Latin America . The notice in my case was hardly adequate. I received the carrying south the endless variety of goods needed notification on August 10 at Luxembourg and was told to be by our neighbors in Central and South America. at my home in San Diego not later than September 30. While I managed to make Washington in time it allowed As a larger world trade becomes increasingly precious little leeway to pack my effects, finish my work important to sound foreign relations, Grace Line in the Legation, turn over the office, make travel reser¬ will continue to encourage the growth of inter- vations and, of course, to pay my official farewell calls (I American trade and travel. As always, exporters, was Charge d’affaires, a.i.) and write my farewell letters. importers and travelers in all the Americas can To get back to my real gripe. Granted that a reduction look to Grace Line for facilities, service and ex¬ in force was necessary it seems to me that the Department, perience in keeping with the highest standards of I suspect the Division of Foreign Service Personnel, could the American Merchant Marine. have handled it in a manner so as to leave a little better taste in the mouths of those affected, instead of pursuing REGULAR DIRECT AMERICAN FLAG the “meat-ax” method which was employed. It seems to me PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICES that any Foreign Service Officer of fairly long service de¬ BETWEEN THE AMERICAS served a little better than this notice on being so summarily separated after a long and presumably honorable career. Between New York, Atlantic Ports and Why, for instance, could not the Department have in¬ Netherlands Antilles, formed each officer selected out, whose record was “good” Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Canal Zone, or better, and who had not been promoted in four years or Ecuador, Peru (Bolivia), Chile. longer, that he was to be promoted to the next higher grade, Between U. S. Pacific Ports and Guatemala, Mexico, but on the day of his promotion he was to be retired from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Service? I believe this is frequently done in the Military Panama and West Coast of South America. Services. I think it is called a “kangaroo” promotion, but it serves the purpose of softening the blow.