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Dramatic in concept—exciting in eye appeal —thrilling in performance—superb in safety— these 1954 Studebakers bring you the distinction of Ray mond Loewy styling and the solid money’s Commander Y-8 Conestoga Station Wagon 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published monthly by THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION JANUARY, 1954 Volume 31, Number 1 CONTENTS page 20 CONSENT AND COALITION by Charles Barton Marshall THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE 24 DIPLOMACY AND THE PRESS by Henry B. Cox ASSOCIATION Honorary President 26 THE GOLDEN ROCK by Charles F. Knox, Jr. JOHN FOSTER DULLES, Secretary of State Honorary Vice-Presidents 28 THROUGH LAPLAND BY REINDEER by Thomas Hiltunen THE UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE 33 FOREIGN SERVICE SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT THE COUNSELOR THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE 34 AN OFFICER’S TROPICAL DOLDRUMS by Honestus, FSO-2 JOHN D. HICKERSON, President EDWARD T. WAILES, Vice-President BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 36 REFLECTIONS OF AN FSO WIFE, WINTER, 1954 by Mrs. Parker T. Hart board of directors ANDREW B. FOSTER, Chairman V. LANSINC COLLINS, JR., Vice-Chairman STEPHEN WINSHIP, Secretary-Treasurer TYLER THOMPSON departments PARKER T. HART 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Alternates PHILIP W. BONSAI. 12 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart ROBERT F. WOODWARD WILLIAM C. BURDETT, JR. 10 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT by Lois Perry Jones MISS MARGARET P. HAYS, Assistant Sec.-Treas. ROLLIE H. WHITE, JR. 30 SERVICE GLIMPSES journal editorial board RAY L. THURSTON, Chairman 32 EDITORIALS LOUIS J. HALLE, JR. Information Program The Service’s Four Senses CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. EDMUND CULLION 38 NEWS FROM THE FIELD RICHARD A. POOLE LEE E. METCALF EDWARD J. MULCAHY 42 THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. deWolf, Review Editor LOIS PERRY JONES, Managing Editor Francis Colt delFolf Dr. Lloyd D. Black GEORGE BUTLER, Business Manager Alice Raine Alice Libbey EDWIN C. RENDALL, Circulation Manager JANE D. FISHBURNE, Editorial Assistant 44 BIRTHS The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an unofficial and voluntary association of the members, 57 ASSOCIATION COMMITTEES 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 «0 FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 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 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS improvement of the Service. 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- COVER PICTURE: The Garden in Winter, Consulate Month Contest. General, Yokohama. The garden in summer was pic¬ tured on the March, 1952, JOURNAL cover. Photo by Copyright, 1953, by the American Foreign Service Association. Leo J. Callanan. 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. CHALLENGES SERVICE DECLARATION Alexandria, Virginia October 8, 1953 To the Editors, FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: I read your editorial in the October issue with some an¬ ticipation and hope that it would carry forward and elabo¬ rate the excellent article by Louis Halle which you published recently. I was, however, disappointed. If this declaration of purposes and principles represents the distilled wisdom of the Foreign Service, then it is small wonder it has so far •.. to do one job well! proven so inept in defending itself against attack or has failed to secure the public esteem which rightfully belongs It is Grace Line’s job to provide transporta¬ to it. tion service between the Americas, and for There is little in the declaration with which anyone could disagree; so much so, in fact, that its contents are axiomatic generations it has been Grace Line’s goal to and it is doubtless a sign of the sickness of our times that do this one job well. From the days of the anyone should have thought it necessary or desirable to clipper ships, Grace Line has sought to antici¬ make such statements. What has been left unsaid is the pate the growth patterns of Hemisphere disturbing part. I agree, in theory at least, with the asser¬ trade with increasingly efficient facilities. tion of the non-political and non-partisan character of the Today, Grace Line’s fleet of fine modern Service, although I gather there is no unanimity on this point in view of certain published statements to the effect "Santas,” operating on regular schedules, that policy officers must be taught to think like Republicans provide a dependability of service which has or be replaced. The point is not wholly without validity won the confidence of importers and trav¬ and suggests the need for some qualification of any flat elers. By laboring to do a good job in one statement about a non-political and non-partisan Foreign sphere of foreign trade, Grace Line is con¬ Service, unless one assumes all officers to have the perso¬ tributing strength and vitality to the whole nality and intellect of a mirror or a degree of character dishonesty as yet unachieved anywhere. Either prospect international trade structure. is dreary. It is, of course, a cliche that once a line of policy has REGULAR DIRECT AMERICAN FLAG been set every officer will carry it out to the best of his PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICES ability or get out; and the record of the Service is impec¬ BETWEEN THE AMERICAS cable in this respect. The argument will then add that the Service exists to report impartially and carry out policy, Between New York, Atlantic Ports and and that it has no policy function. And, technically, there Netherlands Antilles, is only one policy officer in the Department, namely, the Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Canal Zone, Secretary. This argument, however, oversimplifies and ig¬ Ecuador, Peru (Bolivia), Chile. nores the dynamics of policy and of men. There is no such Between U. S. Pacific Ports and Guatemala, Mexico, person as an impartial man. All men report through the El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, eyes of their experience, conditioning, outlook, intellect, Panama and West Coast of South America. emotions—however well disciplined. This in no sense im¬ plies dishonesty; on the contrary, a basic worth of democ¬ For detailed information address racy is recognition of fundamental differences between men and respect for the integrity and sincerity of those differ¬ ences. Despite the public claptrap of the last few years, anyone who knows the Service also knows that in the main GRACE it is composed of very conservative and cautious men and that during the twenty years of the Democratic Administra¬ tion it never contained more than a handful who were per¬ LINE sonally in sympathy with the social objectives and attitudes of the New Deal and the Fair Deal. Nor am I aware that 10 Hanover Square, New York the Service, to its credit, ever pretended to be other than it Agents and offices in all principal cities was, and it still managed to do an honorable job. It would (Continued on page 6) 4 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Finland expands her radio services with 19 RCA Transmitters Frequency Modulation Network Broadcasting aids her people ONCE AGAIN, Finland’s tradi¬ Finland to Utsjoki in the far North.
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