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Better STYLED AND BUILT BY STUDEBAKER-PACKARD CORPORATION ... still, its price has WORLD’S 4TH LARGEST FULL-LINE PRODUCER OF CARS AND TRUCKS recently been re- duced. Almost Studebaker-Packard Corporation, Export Division, everyone can now South Bend 27, Indiana, U. S. A. Cables: STUDEPACK afford it easily. FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published monthly by THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION APRIL 1955 Volume 32, Number 4 CONTENTS page 20 MY LAST WALK IN MOSCOW by Betty Jane Sommerlatte 22 GLIMPSES OF GANGTOK by Judith Laikin 24 THE JOB OF ECONOMIC REPORTING by Harold E. Hail THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 26 THE CONSULAR OFFICER by The Honorable Manuel Aguilar Honorary President 30 SPECIALIZATION—Correspondence between H. Francis JOHN FOSTER DULLES, Secretary of State Honorary Vice-Presidents Cunningham, Jr., and George F. Wilson THE UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE 36 ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE THE COUNSELOR 54 FSO PROMOTION LIST THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE ROBERT D. MURPHY, President 54 APPOINTMENTS TO FSO CORPS LOY W. HENDERSON, Vice-President BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 56 JOURNAL CORRESPONDENTS board of directors OUTERBRIDGE HORSEY, Chairman departments PARKER T. HART, Vice-Chairman HARRY A. MCBRIDE WILLIAM C. BURDETT, JR., Secretary-Treasurer 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS CHRISTOPHER A. SQUIRE Alternates 14 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart WALTER MCCONAUGHY STERLING COTTRELL, Assistant Sec.-Treas. 10 NEWS TO 1HE FIELD by Lois Perry Jones DAVID LINEBAUCH FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM 28 SERVICE GLIMPSES ANNE W. MERIAM 32 EDITORIALS journal editorial board The Journal’s Masthead Foreign Service Academy JOSEPH PALMER, 2ND Chairman CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. 34 NEWS FROM THE FIELD EDMUND GULLION EDWARD W. MULCAHY Story of the Month: The Big Ones Are in Karachi EDWARD P. MONTGOMERY by Henry W. Spielman JOHN L. STEGMAIER LOIS PERRY JONES, Managing Editor 36 BIRTHS, IN MEMORIAM GEORGE BUTLER, Business Manager JANE D. FISHBURNE, Circulation Manager and Editorial Assistant 40 THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. DeWolf, Editor Stanley D. Metzger Northrup H. Kirk William L. Smyser The A MBitiCAN FortmoN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the 47 MARRIAGES 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 56 FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. The FOREION 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- COVER PICTURE: Gathering Balsa on Lake Titicaca. Montb Contest. Appeared originally in Americas Magazine in Febru¬ ary, 1955. Photo by Kurt Severin. Copyright, 1955, 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 D.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com¬ pany, Baltimore. Because Performance Pseudonyms may be used only if your letter includes your correct is Paramount... name and address. REPLY TO FISHBURNE LETTER In a letter published in the December JOURNAL, Mr. John I. Fishburne asserted, in connection with the Davies case, “that the Security Board has usurped the functions of the Board of the Foreign Service as set up in the Foreign Service Act of 1946,” and further stated that “if this pro¬ vision of the Foreign Service Act has been superseded by later legislation, 1 think the Service should be duly in¬ formed, and I suggest that you make an inquiry along this line and print your findings in the JOURNAL.” Representatives of the Association and of the JOURNAL have in recent weeks discussed with Departmental officers in a position to speak authoritatively about the matter the question raised in Mr. Fishburne’s letter. While these efforts have not resulted in any formal, written findings, they have elicited the following position: Congress, by the Act of August 26, 1950 (5 U.S.C. 22-1), provided that notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Secretary of State and certain other heads of agencies were authorized, in their absolute discretion and when deemed necessary in the interest of national security, to suspend, without pay, any civilian officer or employee in such agencies. In accordance with the procedures pre¬ scribed in the Act, the head of each agency is authorized to terminate the employment of such suspended civilian officer or employee whenever he shall determine such ter¬ mination necessary or advisable in the interest of national security of the United States. This legislation makes specific reference to the Foreign Service of the United States. Executive Order No. 10450, which embodies cur¬ rent procedures for the separation from the Government of persons considered to be “security risks” is based upon Today, 45% of the oil used by major scheduled this legislation. The 1950 law did not repeal the Foreign airlines in the United States is supplied by Sinclair. Service Act of 1946. We thus have a situation in which charges can be brought Sinclair produces lubricants of the same high against Foreign Service personnel either under the Foreign quality for cars, trucks and buses. Service Act of 1946 or the later 1950 Act.
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