The Foreign Service Journal, July 1945
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Allen Suggestions for Improving the Foreign Service and Its Administration to Meet Its War and Post-War Responsibilities—Honorable Mention 13 By Ware A dams UNCIO Glimpses—Photos 16 On Telegraph Hill 17 By Harry W. Frantz Selected Questions from the General Foreign Service Examinations of 1945 19 Diplomat Fought Nazis as Partisan Leader 21 By Garnett D. Horner Editors’ Column 22 58 YEARS IN EXPORTING . Montgomery Wards vast Letters to the Editors 23 annual operations have sustained economical mass pro¬ duction of key lines and have effected better products Foreign Service Training School—Photo 24 at competitive prices. A two hundred million dollar cor¬ In Memoriam 24 poration, Wards own some factories outright and have production alliances with others which in many in¬ Births 24 stances include sole export rights for world markets. Warcfe key electrical, automotive, machinery, and Petroleum for Spain 25 implement products are sold abroad through stock¬ By James Russell Lowell carrying distributors only. Other lines are sold to News from the Field 26 importers and dealers. Special catalogs available. ELECTRICAL IMPLEMENT The Bookshelf 28 Radios, refrigerators* Agricultural implements Francis G. de Wolj, Review Editor Washers, ironers’ Cream separators Vacuum cleaners* Garden tractors, trailers The American Foreign Service Clerk 30 Sewing machines* Electric fence controllers Radio and sound equipment* Ranges, motors MECHANICAL Marriage 31 Lighting plants Gasoline engines From a Park Bench in Union Square 32 AUTOMOTIVE Outboard motors* Tires, tubes, spark plugs Woodworking machines By Henry Warner Air compressors Paints and paint sprayers Batteries, battery chargers Plumbing equipment Service Glimpses 35 Oil, grease, polish, wax Concrete mixers Out of production: new models planned for at earliest opportunity. 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American Security and Storage Company 37 Alexandria and Suez (Egypt) American Tobacco Co 51 Arabian American Oil Co 61 Branches or Agents in: Aviation Corporation, The 47 Alexandria, Egypt Jaffa, Palestine Cairo, Egypt Jerusalem, Palestine Association of Pacific Fisheries 62 Port Said, Egypt Haifa, Palestine Suez, Egypt Beirut, Lebanon Bacardi ... 44 Port Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Iskenderon, Turkey Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Damascus, Syria Barr Shipping Company 46 Djibouti, French Somaliland Ankara, Turkey Brewood 62 Addis Abeba, Ethiopia Izmir, Turkey Jedda, Arabia Istanbul, Turkey Calvert School 60 Nicosia, Cyprus Valetta, Malta Chase National Bank 61 Douglas Aircraft Company- 5 AMERICAN IRAQI SHIPPING CO., LTD. Federal Storage Company 42 (Only American-Owned Shipping Firm Firestone Tire and Rubber Co I ; 6 in Persian Gulf) Grace Line .... 40 Basrah and Baghdad (iraq) Glide’s 62 Hiram Ricker & Sons 49 Branches Agents in: International Telephone & Telegraph Co.__ 43 Baghdad, Iraq Bandar Abbas, Iran Basrah, Iraq Teheran, Iran Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co , 2 Khorramshahr, Iran Bahrein, Bahrein Islands Bandar Shahpour, Iran RasTannurah, Saudi Arabia Mayflower Hotel - 59 Abadan, Lran Koweit, Arabia Bushire, Iran Mosul, Iraq Montgomery Ward 1 National City Bank _ 54 National Distillers Corp 57 National Geographic Magazine 41 Pan-American Airways, Ine. 48 R.C.A. 53 Schenley Products II and III COVERS Security Storage Company of Washington 37 Socony-Yacuum Oil Co., Inc 50 Texaco Petroleum Products 58 Tyner, Mrs. E. J 62 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company.. 61 United Fruit Company 61 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV COVER New York Representatives Westinghouse 55 Williams, R. 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The specialties—ideal additions to your “cellar”. kind of attention we’re prepared to give all Ask for full information — no obligation, of course. angles of the export business will greatly simplify matters for you. Why not get in New York State Liquor License No. 1 touch with our Export Department? R. C. WILLIAMS & CO., INC. * 25th Street and 10th Avenue ’ New York City, N.Y. 4 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES The following changes have occurred in the American Foreign Service since May 12, 1945: Gustavus Duran of Washington, D. C., Special Assistant at Mabana, Cuba, has been assigned as Special Assistant for duty in the American Embassy at Buenos Aires, Ar¬ BATTLE gentina. Cecil B. Lyon of New York, New York, Second Secre¬ tary of the Legation and American Consul at Cairo, Egypt, has been designated First Secretary of Legation and Amer¬ ican Consul at the same place, and will continue to serve COMPANION in dual capacity. Paul O. Nyhus of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Agricul¬ tural Attache at Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been as¬ signed as Agricultural Attache at London, England. John Peabody Palmer of Seattle, Washington, Foreign Wherever American lives are Service Officer attached to the Staff of the United States staked in combat it goes and Political Advisor at Naples, Italy, has been assigned as American Foreign Service Officer at Budapest, Hungary. comes, bringing tools to turn the Lawrence Pierce of New York, New York, Economic Analyst at Buenaventura, Colombia, has been assigned as tide of battle. Over thousand-mile Economic Analyst at Bogota, Colombia. Henry L. Taylor of Seattle, Washington, Junior Economic reaches of lonely ocean, “over the Analyst at Bogota, Colombia, has been assigned American hump” of far-off mountain ranges \ ice Consul at Buenaventura, Colombia. Robert W. Wagner of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Economic . through storm and danger it Analyst at Mexico, D. F., Mexico, has been assigned as Economic Analyst at Paris, France. flies, carrying vitally needed men, Osborn S. Watson of Blackshear, Georgia, Commercial weapons and fuel . bringing Attache at Caracas, Venezuela, has been assigned Com¬ mercial Attache at Wellington, New Zealand. back wounded. It is the unsung The following changes have occurred in the American Foreign Service since May 19, 1945: transport plane, battle companion Robert John Bernstein of New7 York, New York, has been assigned American Vice Consul at Bucharest, Ru¬ to bombers, tanks and ships . mania. supplier to our fighting men. John W. Campbell of Alabama has been assigned Amer¬ ican Vice Consul at Bogota, Colombia. Douglas workers, builders of Philip Ernst of Washington D. C.. American Vice Con¬ sul at Ankara, Turkey, has been assigned American Vice planes for the world’s airlines yes¬ Consul at Izmir, Turkey. terday and tomorrow, are proud Raymond George Fisher of Utah has been assigned Senior Economic Analvst at Versailles, France. that their skill today is turning out Laurence C. Frank of Newport, Rhode Island, has been assigned as Secretary of Mission, attached to the Staff of th ese swift, sure load-carriers the United States Political Adviser on Austrian Affairs to the Commanding General, United States Army Forces, of victory. Mediterranean Theater of Operations, at Naples, Italy. William M. Gibson of Stanford, Connecticut, American Maritime Delegate at Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, Azores, has been assigned as Senior Economic Analyst at Paris, France. U. Alexis Johnson of Glendale, California. American Vice Consul at Manila. Philippine Islands, has been desig¬ nated American Consul at the same place. Donald A. Jones of Madison, Wisconsin, has been ap¬ pointed American Vice Consul at Lugano, Switzerland. James L. Lee of New York has been assigned American \ ire Consul at Budapest, Hungary. Sonia Monica, Calif. Walter H. McKinney of Sault Ste. Marie. Michigan, American Consul at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canada, has been designated American Consul General at the same LONG BEACH, EL SEGUNDO, DAGGETT, CALIF.