The Foreign Service Journal, February 1973
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WHITTEN Staff FEBRUARY 1973: VOLUME 50, NO. 2 GERALD BUSHNELL, Executive Director CLARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant HELEN VOGEL, Committee Coordinator C. B. SANNER, Membership and Circulation Journal Editorial Board TERESITA C. SCHAFFER, Chairman RALPH S. SMITH, Vice Chairman Needed: A Second Generation of FREDERICK QUINN Supranational Institutions 9 EDWARD M. COHEN HARRIETT S. CROWLEY LESTER R. BROWN G. RICHARD MONSEN JOEL M. WOLDMAN Journal SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Editor The Decline and Fall of MclVER ART & PUBLICATIONS, INC., Arf Direction American Efficiency 15 EDMUND A. SCHECTER Advertising Representatives JAMES C. SASMOR, 295 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017 (212) 532-6230 ALBERT D. SHONK CO., 681 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. Open Letter to Consular 94105 (415) 392-7144 Appointees 16 JOSHUA B. POWERS, LTD., 5 Winsley Street, London W.l 01- CHARLES S. KENNEDY, JR. 580 6594/8. International Representatives. ©American Foreign Service Association, 1973. 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Microfilm copies of current as well as of back issues of the FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL are available through the University Microfilm Li¬ brary Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 under a contract signed COVER: Oberrieden, Switzerland, by Eva Marsh October 30, 1967. mesh his subordinates handling per¬ ing abroad for the United States LETTERS TO | sonnel. It would impair if not even¬ Government. Agreed—but they are tually destroy the morale of the not all diplomats, and you are naive Foreign Service. if you assume that shared nationality Dissent and Heresy The recent publicity and one¬ equals a line drawn for the benefit ■ A number of inquiries as to ap¬ sided propaganda emanating from of non-diplomats through the lowest propriate organizations to which AFSA has already adversely affected common denominator of achieve¬ contributions may be made in mem¬ that morale by focusing the atten¬ ment. ory of John Carter Vincent have tion of Foreign Service personnel been received and it was decided on their privileges, grievances and A Modest Proposal security, at the expense of their that the American Civil Liberties I T’S still the same old problem. Union in seeking to preserve and responsibilities, opportunities and Even after ex-President Hoover, defend the basic human rights of obligations. Secretary Herter, Dr. Wriston and a individuals at times of unrest and As I observed upon first reading host of others, most lately Bill Ma- popular reprisals is the most repre¬ Executive Order 11636 (which comber, have had their way with sentative of his ideas and philoso¬ never should be applied to the reformation and reorganization, ev¬ phies. He knew well the form such officers of the Foreign Service, who erybody still seems to go on hating reprisals can take, and their effect are not “employees” but men and the State Department. Bob Short women commissioned by the Presi¬ on the individual. has taken the Senators to Texas, dent of the United States, by and My husband’s favorite philoso¬ and now State has moved up to the with the consent of the Senate), pher and theologian was Spinoza, position of number one Washington one searches through those dreary who also went through great trials whipping boy. paragraphs for such phrases as and tribulations and who said, “The The blunt truth is that the For¬ “pride of accomplishment,” “patri¬ misfortunes of history made dissent eign Service itself is obsolete. In an otic performance,” “willingness on from the most palpable absurdities, era of jet planes and hot lines, we behalf of the country to face hard¬ capital heresy” and so it was with are still relying on the old Foreign ship and peril”—or in one word, Service, disciplined in the arts of John Carter Vincent and the whole “service”—but he who reads that diplomacy and protocol. Even the China service, in the 1940s. Executive Order searches for those so-called “new diplomacy” is merely ELIZABETH THAYER VINCENT the logical extension of the old di¬ Cambridge words in vain. Instead, for all the obeisances to plomacy to the new responsibilities A Congregation of Grievants professionalism and merit, I find of the United States as a world power in the second half of the This section was inadvertently omit¬ AFSA, under that Executive Order, twentieth century; it has nothing to ted from Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs’ promoting a Congregation of Griev¬ letter in the January JOURNAL. do with the age of technetronics. ants, whose greatest triumph will not The State Department’s top echelon ■ Your basic premise is further be in meeting the challenges you may know what is wrong with the nourished by the notion that State salute, but in spitting in the eye of Stanley Steamer on today’s su¬ Department “management,” unless Management—and getting away with perhighways, but somehow they curbed by the vigilance of those it. How, moreover, does your solici¬ haven’t yet grasped the fact that armed with the weapon of “exclu¬ tude for “grievants” jibe with your they too are using the wrong kind of sive bargaining,” and with what you statement that only a “minute pro¬ power. They are still on the wrong term “impartial review” (by which portion” of Foreign Service person¬ track, no pun intended. I suppose you really mean a mechanism de¬ nel believe they have been unfairly an ecologist would say that eutroph¬ signed to override a decision of the treated? To gratify that “minute pro¬ ication has reached irreversible lim¬ Secretary of State), will inevitably portion,” is it necessary to erect that its in Foggy Bottom. Anyway, the result in exploiting the workers— elaborate array of boards and panels Foreign Service has become as ex¬ i.e.