The Foreign Service Journal, November 1940
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gi,c AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL NOVEMBER, 1940 TOPS IN ANY LANGUAGE Members of the American Foreign Service know that the Hotel New Yorker is Tops in Service—No other hotel in the world offers the same highly individualized service. Our interpreters handle no fewer than 33 different languages, including Esperanto! Tops in Value—No other hotel in the world offers a guest so much for his hotel dollar. A choice of 2,500 attractively appointed rooms from $3.50 a day, each complete with both tub and shower, Servidor, radio and circulating ice water. Tops in Reputation—What other hotel in the world can claim this amazing record: three million satisfied guests in the last ten years? That be¬ speaks an unparalleled reputation! The Hotel New Yorker has been Foreign Service headquarters in New York because of its convenient location, handy to everything you want to see or do in this fascinating city. Make it your home next time you are on leave. ★ 2500 Rooms from $3.50 Hotel NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Frank L. Andrews, President Leo A. Molony, Manager CONTENTS COLUMBIA BOOKS NOVEMBER, 1940 FOR THE Cover Picture AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE Wesl Lake, Kunming;, Yunnan See page 640 Cinematography in the Foreign Service By Irene A. Wright 601 “All Clear” Financial Queetione in- By Paul J Reveley Nationality Act of 1940 United States Toroiyn Police) By George Stephens Knight 605 by Samzo W- Gzwitcnhccn,. 7. 2.5 Marriage 607 Births 607 In Memoriam 607 Thar’s Gold in Quebec International Boundaries By Richard Ford 608 Their Socks Come from Camels’ Backs A Study of Boundary functions By B. R. Angus 610 and Problem^. £>y S. Whitbesruore, Foreign Service Retirements 611 St. Lucia Boy-cyi, Crzoyrypfcr of tlvc LL.S. By John Valentine 612 Dey/arbment of State,. zf Oliver Bishop Ilarriman Foreign Service Scholar¬ ship 614 The Towers and Spires of Oxford By J. D. U. Ward 615 Editors’ Column 618 Federal ReeearcTi News from the Department in International Economic'S By Reginald P. Mitchell 619 News from the Field 622 by Sanford Scfuxrarz: 41 7^ The Bookshelf /. Rives Childs, Revieiv Editor 624 From Muleback to Aeroplane By Sylvia A. Randolph 626 DracUt Agreements; Supplement fo Photographic Register 628 A Study in Democratic MetkocL Foreign Service Changes 630 Service Glimpses 631 by J~ifm Day JLarfui. 4 1.00 American Legation, Helsinki, Photographs 635 Development of Our Department of State By Diplomatics, Reprint 636 Bells Into Guns 637 Lcuo, die St ate-, and The Wide Horizon 638 the International Corrtmunity Association Scholarship Winners 640 Animals in War-Time by Scorned Brown Scott. Two voh.y# 7f By Emily Bax 641 Resolutions Adopted by the American Bar Asso¬ ciation 643 Visitors 655 (Vrtfce for fulC Informatuoy Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Associa¬ COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. 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FARRELL, Second Secretary at Baghdad IN THE last decade the hobby of amateur cinema¬ “Safety” campaigns; and more professionally, by tography has developed rapidly in the United surgeons and dentists to create film records of op¬ States and Canada, according to facts presented by erations and dental surgery. Furthermore, various the magazine Movie Makers published by the Ama¬ outstanding American industries utilize the 16-milli¬ teur Cinema League, meter apparatus for Inc., of New York. Li I I I I I I I I I I I I'll I IIIIIIIITTTIJITTTITTTIL advertising and for Nevertheless amateur technical films by — “A movie is the most faithful record of the living world Z cinematography has which their salesmen, Z that man’s genius has yet devised. It lets us look at, and ~ not yet achieved the listen to, the past with fewer obstacles than we should have ~ at home and abroad, popularity among — met if we tried to observe that past when it was the present, Z instruct users of their Foreign Service Offi¬ Z because a movie can recreate an event, in actual motion and ~ products. For exam¬ sound, just as it really happened, and can then present a ~ cers stationed abroad — similar record of what occurred five thousand miles away, — ple, Caterpillar Trac¬ which some enthu¬ Z without losing time. This is a feat beyond the present capac- ~ tor Company, as long siasts feel certain it — ity of any other human mechanism.”—The ACL Movie Book, Z as nine years ago, will eventually enjoy. 1940, published by the Amateur Cinema League, Inc., of — produced films of New York. Expense is the usual z tractors and allied initial superficial ob¬ road building and jection or obstacle, forestry equipment at hut it should be emphasized that the cost of equip¬ work, and by such visual means their salesman in ment. films and service of American manufacture Addis Ababa succeeded in interesting the Ethiopian has substantially decreased in the scant decade and Government in buying from his company. a half since the hobby of 16-millimeter cinematog¬ With such widespread interest evident among raphy began to make headway in North America. amateurs permanently resident in North America, The prevalence of the hobby in 1940 in this coun¬ in filming their stay-at-home lives and activities, or try and its neighbor, Canada, testifies to the value at best short vacation trips, how much more inter¬ placed upon it by the average amateur for the re¬ est the hobby should provide among Foreign Serv¬ cording of family growth, vacation experiences, and ice Officers who serve at various posts and find travel; by numerous clubs of amateurs for more themselves in a unique position to create film rec¬ purposeful filming, intended to “put the locality on ords of foreign life, or even more serious records of the map”; by civic groups and city governments in industrial or shipping activity, as supplemental to NOVEMBER. 1940 601 their reporting work. Some enthusiasts visualize the day when every diplomatic mission and consular office of the United States Government will be equipped with 16-millimeter camera equipment, in order that an officer submitting a report may accom¬ pany it, when suitable, with sound motion pictures illustrative of the text—a day when his superiors, on receipt of such a report will, after reading it step into the Department’s own projection room to see the screening of its accomplishments.