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The Foreign Service Journal, March 1925 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL y\'ml v2\\ Contributed by C. van H. Engert COURTYARD OF THE EMBASSY AT HAVANA Vol. II MARCH, 1925 No. 3 FEDERAL-AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK NOW IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION IN WASHINGTON, D. C. W. T. GALLIHER, Chairman of the Board JOHN POOLE, President RESOURCES OVER $13,000,000.00 VOL. II. No. 3 WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH, 1925 Mr. Hughes And The Foreign Service PUBLIC opinion is traditionally slow in been made in recent years to secure this end, assigning to a living statesman his definite something similar to the Civil Service, hut the place in history. But this rule has yielded plan needs to be further elaborated and more in the case of Mr. Hughes. The announcement definitely worked out. In order to secure the best of his voluntary resignation as Secretary of results and to secure the best men to fill these State, effective March 4, 1925, came as a shock positions, diplomatic careers must he made pos¬ to the country. Already, and while yet in the sible. The Service should he made so attractive vigor of active life, he is classed with the greatest and with such certain opportunity to rise that of our Secretaries of State. As the President has young men fitted for the work will choose this as said of him, “Our foreign relations have been their life profession just as they do the Army and handled with a technical skill and a broad states¬ Navy. It should he made certain that if he manship which has seldom, if ever, been sur¬ attends to his duties and shows the proper intelli¬ passed.” gence and adaptability, he will rise to the top.” From the moment he took office at the begin¬ How successfully this program of career build¬ ning of the Harding Administration the State ing and foreign service betterment has been Department and the Foreign Service felt a new achieved is amply vouched for in the Rogers Act force and directing control in all their activities, and in the administrative regulations through not only in the formulation and carrying out of which its principles are applied. The Foreign policies hut also in the administration and reorgan¬ Service is now an interchangeable unit; the scale ization of the Foreign Service. of salaries has been substantially increased; repre¬ Thus within two months after entering upon sentation allowances have been provided; a retire¬ his responsible duties in an interview, published ment system is achieved; stability, which formerly in World’s Work, June, 1921, he placed himself rested upon the insecure basis of Executive or¬ squarely behind the movement to reorganize the ders, is now assured by statute; and under the Foreign Service and improve the Department of administrative regulations promotion to the grade State. In speaking of the diplomatic and consular of minister on a basis of merit is contemplated. service he stated: “Their work is not understood Hon. Theodore E. Burton, temporary chairman and appreciated by the American people. * * * of the Republican National Convention, said of A man must he thoroughly trained in order to this reform in his keynote speech of June 10, succeed in any line; this applies no less to diplo¬ 1924: “We have passed and the President has macy than it does to other work. The tasks to approved the so-called Rogers Bill placing our be accomplished are too important to be left to diplomatic and consular service with its rapidly inexperienced hands, or to men chosen as a re¬ increasing importance on a higher plane and giv¬ ward for political obligations. We need trained ing opportunities to others than millionaires to men in the diplomatic and consular service and occupy the more important positions.” also in the State Department. An effort has The ultimate effect of the enactment was stated 69 by Secretary Hughes in a speech before the six were promoted from the grade of secretary in American Foreign Service Association on October the diplomatic service by President Wilson and 1, 1924, as follows, showing how clearly he had retained by President Harding. One of the min¬ visualized its aims: isters given appointment by President Harding “I feel that our highest posts, those of Ambas¬ was promoted from the grade of secretary in the sadors, will in time be largely filled by men com¬ diplomatic service. * * * ing up through the legations, through the missions. “A still better showing is found, however, in That is the end to be achieved, to have a career turning to the consular service, where we find an which goes through to the top, and it can be done unequaled record of adherence to the merit sys¬ if we have the feeling through the country that tem. During the first fifteen months of the this service is not merely worthy because of its administration of President Harding there has not objects or because of the capacity of certain of its been a single exception to the rules requiring members, but because the whole service is instinct appointments through examination in the consular with energy and strength and is fortified by sound service. The original appointments have all been preparation and thorough training.” made strictly in accordance with executive orders In 1922 the National Civil Service Reform and the promotions in the service have been based League issued a supplement to its Report on the more strictly than ever before upon an impartial Foreign Service of 1919 in determination of the relative which the early record of the efficiency of the officers in the new administration was re¬ service. The basis of the pro¬ viewed as follows: motions made is a report of the “An examination of the relative merit of all officers in records of appointments of the consular service prepared ambassadors, ministers, min¬ by a board of review showing isters resident and agents in the relative efficiency of the the diplomatic service of the various officers. United States since March 4, “Out of 102 appointments to 1921, seems to indicate that posts in the consular service, 15 an earnest effort has been have been to the grade of Con¬ made to retain the services of sul, Class 7 (the lowest grade), men with experience and to as the result of entrance exam¬ appoint to diplomatic posts inations. The remaining 87 persons with qualifications in appointments of Consuls and diplomacy. Of the total of Consuls General have consti¬ nine ambassadors appointed tuted promotions of men all of by this administration five them having an average of 10 are men who have had years’ experience. * * * previous experience in the “In the secretarial grades of diplomatic service. * * the diplomatic service there “Out of a total of have been a total of 38 appoint¬ thirty ministers now ments, 17 of which serving in the have been original diplomatic corps, appointments in the six have been lowest class (Class 4) appointed of through examination. men of previous The remaining experience in the 21 have been of diplomatic serv¬ four secretaries. ice and eight are Class 1, with an appointees of average of 12 previous admin¬ years’ experience istrations re¬ each; 7 secre¬ tained by the Harris & Ewing taries of Class 2, present adminis¬ with an average tration. Of these HONORABLE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, of 8j/2 years’ ex- eight ministers SECRETARY OF STATE (Coni’d on page 99) 70 THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON February 18, 1925. To the Foreign Service Officers: I retire from the Department of State with a keen sense of the personal loss I shall sustain in withdrawing from the agreeable association with the officers of the Foreign Service. In view of the fact that the Service had long been organized upon a merit basis, I had expected to find trained ability, but despite the pleasant contacts I had enjoyed with officers of the Service from time to time, I had not fully appreciated the fine spirit of the Service, and the loyalty and zeal of its members, until my official duties gave me daily opportunity for intimate knowledge. I take the greatest pride in the tone and efficiency I of the Service, and it has been a high privilege to be able in some degree to aid in promoting its interests by supporting the legislation providing for an improved organization and more adequate rewards. To you, scattered throughout the world, in every country and clime, under every sort of conditions, but with equal patri¬ otic devotion and unified effort, safeguarding the interests of our beloved country, but being careful in so doing faithfully to interpret the traditions and standards of the American people, I give my most cordial greetings with the earnest desire that you may find abiding satisfactions in your important work. 71 A Visit to King Hussein By OSCAR S. HEIZER, Consul, Jerusalem KING HUSSEIN came up from Mecca in Some of the Arabs, riding bareback, threw their January, 1924, to visit his son, the Emir rifles up into the air and caught them as they Abdullah Governor of Transjordania, at came down. After a short pause they rode back, Amman. He lived for a while in the unpreten¬ and this performance continued five or six times. tious palace at Amman but, finding it too cold, King Hussein asked if we would like to see his and being unaccustomed to the cold weather of favorite mare, and she was brought to the front the north, he decided to remove to the protected of the tent by a Nubian servant. She was a valley of the Jordan opposite Jericho, at a place magnificent animal, pure white, with a handsome called Shooni.
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