gL AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL JANUARY, 1951 .. .it’s always a measure warn ,0? KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOUHBOI WHISKEY W/A BOTTLED IN BOND KENTUCKY BOURBON KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY • TOO PROOF • I. W. HARPER DISTILLING COMPANY, KENTUCKY REGISTERED DISTILLERY NO. 1, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT FOREIGN SERVICE DEAN ACHESON SECRETARY OF STATE HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF JOURNAL STATE THE COUNSELOR H. FREEMAN MATTHEWS PRESIDENT FLETCHER WARREN VICE PRESIDENT BARBARA P. CHALMERS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HERVE J. L.HEUREUX CHAIRMAN HOMER M. BYINGTON, JR. VICE CHAIRMAN WILLIAM O. BOSWELL SECRETARY-TREASURER DALLAS M. COORS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER CECIL B. LYON ALTERNATES THOMAS C. MANN EILEEN R. DONOVAN STUART W. ROCKWELL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY U. ALEXIS JOHNSON ANCEL N. TAYLOR THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD JOHN M. ALLISON CHAIRMAN FRANK S. HOPKINS G. FREDERICK REINHARDT VOL, 28, NO. 1 JANUARY, 1951 WILLIAM J. HANDLEY CORNELIUS J. DWYER JOHN K. EMM FRSON AVERY F. PETERSON COVER PICTURE: A snowstorm blankets old Jerusalem. DAVID H. MCKILLOP Photo by FSO William C. Burdett, Jr. JOAN DAViD MANAGING EDITOR ROBERT M. WINFREE REGIONAL CONFERENCES IN 1950 13 ADVERTISING MANAGER By Alfred H. Lovell, FSO EDUCATION COMMITTEE REGIONAL CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE 16 G. LEWIS JONES CHAIRMAN By Thomas S. Estes, FSO H. GARDNER AINSWORTH MRS. JOHN K. EMMERSON MRS. ARTHUR B. EMMONS III WHAT! NO SPECIALISTS? 18 JOSEPH N. GREENE. JR. By Thomas A. Goldman, FSO J. GRAHAM PARSONS MRS. JACK D. NEAL THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE FORMER ITALIAN COLONIES 2C ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE By David W. Wainhouse PHILIP F. CHERP CHAIRMAN FRANCIS E. MELOY. JR. HORACE H. SMITH THE BUDDING DIPLOMAT 23 L. RANDOLPH HIGGS By Emily C. Jessup THOMAS S. ESTES ROY R. RUBOTTOM. JR. MR. GADSDEN’S PURCHASE 26 MISS G. 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IRATE READER MAKES A PLEA FOR UNITY January 1, 1951 To the Editors, AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: As a Departmental officer (with nearly five years of For¬ eign Service experience), I was very interested in the first part of the anonymous “Letter from Washington” in De¬ cember’s JOURNAL. But as a Departmental officer who takes great pride in his work, and in his experience in the Foreign Service, and in his many friends in that Service, I was greatly disappointed and disturbed by the latter paragraphs of that message from a young Officer of Career. In the first place, I do not like to consider the Reorganiza¬ tion of the Department of State in terms of an analysis of “the power structure and social strata of a foreign country.” Most people I know, both in and out of the Service, are not so precious. Nor do I like the proposition that the Depart¬ ment’s Reorganization was a sort of “October Revolution,” that overthrew the old privilege-loving “Aristocrats” of the Foreign Service, replacing them with a new and inferentially slightly soiled “autocracy” of Administrators. Such cute comparisons do far more to substantiate the charges of men like Senator McCarthy than they do to honor the men and women of the Department and overseas Service. Further, reference to the Congress as “wild tribes of politicians” is hardly going to create many friends or much good will for us on Capitol Hill. Even Congressional ad¬ mirers will be hard put to swallow that one ... or the sub¬ sequent “. rather than see the barbarians (italics mine) fall upon the commonwealth, we should stand together and Friendly hospitality awaits Foreign Service make the best of a situation, which, after all. isn’t so bad.” men and their families at this distinguished Whew! These are difficult and perilous times for all of us in the hotel in the nation’s capital. Its central loca¬ Department and in the Foreign Service. Let there be no tion is convenient to the White House, em¬ mistake. If there is a need for unity in the Nation, there is bassies and government buildings. Famous certainly a pressing need for unity in the Administration’s for luxurious comfort, fine food and superb Foreign Policy Branch. While understanding by all of us of the problems of Reorganization and personnel coopera¬ service, The Mayflower is the residence of tion is of great importance, snide, or precious cuts at one many noted personages .. the scene of inter- wing of the Service or the other are not only very poor nationally-important events and the favorite Public Relations—and at a time when our need for good Public Relations is so great—but they are hardly in keeping meeting place of cosmopolitan society. Ex¬ with the spirit of the Career Foreign Service. clusive Men’s Bar. Gay Cocktail Lounge. UNITY FIRST Completely Air-Conditioned • We’ve heard a lot of comment on the article in question and no two opinions so far have matched. What do you think? FORMS AND FORMALITIES October 24, 1950. To the Editors, C. ]. Mack, General Manager AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: HILTON MANAGEMENT • CONRAD N. HILTON, PRESIDENT I have the honor to invite your attention to the revised Page 42 of the Correspondence Handbook, recently issued by the Department, which contains a list of expressions de¬ scribed as “bad English (presumably ‘incorrect English’ is intended), overused, redundant, or colloquial” and which, (Continued on page 5) JANUARY, 1951 3 BOTTLED IN BOND • KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY • 86 PROOF 4 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LETTERS TO THE EDITORS (Continued from page 3) therefore, should be “avoided in the correspondence of the Department of State.” It is not without interest and, it is to be hoped, not with¬ out significance, that the great majority of the words and phrases thus officially censured (or censored) were anathe¬ ma to drafting officers of the Department and of the Foreign Service before the era of Great Reorganizations which be¬ gan in the autumn of 1943. Is it too much to hope that the banning of such innovations as Finalize, Firm up, Our Mr. Doe and Respondent to your letter, may be followed by the banning of Locals (for local employees), Deputy Chief of Mission (for Counselor of Embassy), Consular Attache (for Speed, Efficiency, God knows what), and similar examples of “bad English” to say nothing of bad taste or bad manners? Is it beyond the realm of possibility, Sirs, to see in Dependability this reform of the reforms the fine Italian hand of Blanche Halla and her hard working corps of guardians of proper usage? Speed, efficiency, dependability—these It is respectfully suggested that a small proportion of are the characteristics which mark those prize awards that have been going to alert employees Grace Line shipping service between the who suggest that someone be put in charge of mail distribu¬ Americas. Because Grace Line’s long tion who is supposed to know where the mail is to go, or experience has built a sure understand¬ that the Department correct an error in one of its own pub¬ lications, be set aside for further suggestions on the use of ing of the requirements of this trade .