The Foreign Service Journal, October 1944
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g/,£ AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE /OL. 21, NO. 10 JOURNAL OCTOBER, 1944 ...but it's whiskey, sir... Smart people choose American whiskey nowadays. Wherever whiskey is known . and From there to a passion for THItEE where isn’t it? . American whiskey FEATHERS is just a step. For is rapidly acquiring a name to con¬ THREE FEATHERS is the American jure with. whiskey par excellence . smooth, People are waking up to the fact mellow, satisfying. that America, too, has its whiskey tra¬ Are you overlooking something fine dition ... and are drawing conclusions YANOUI Y SODA: A new twist to from your own land? Try THREE an old whiskey standby. Here's from the fact that world sales of FEATHERS in what Latin America how to make it: 1. Pour an ounce and one-half of Three Feathers in American whiskies top those of any is rapidly learning to call a “Yanqui a highball glass. 2. Add ice, if you like ice, in your tall drinks. 3. other kind. y Soda”! Fill glass with soda. 4. Twist a piece of lemon peel over drink, and serve. OLDETYME DISTILLERS CORPORATION, Empire State Building, New York THE AMERICAN WHISKEY THREE FEATHERS PAR EXCELLENCE ijgfe This rallying cry is appearing in all Schenley advertising in Latin America LIBERTY CONTENTS Cover Picture: Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square, London See page 580. Diplomats of Tomorrow 527 By Gavin Casey War Prisoners and Internees in the United States 550 By Graham H. Stuart U. S. Courier 532 By Byron White Transportation by Boat, as Arranged 534 By F. Lester Sutton Before the Joint Survey Group 536 By Dr. William L. Longer Land Settlement Programs in Eastern Germany 538 Editors’ Column 540 Press Comment 541 IN UNITED STATES STEEL laboratories, wartime I Cover the Waterfront 543 By Coert du Bois research has developed new and better U ■ S • S steels lor many new types of ships. News from the Field 544 U ■ S • S rolled steels lend themselves to these special shipbuilding needs because of their The Bookshelf 546 superior working and fabricating qualities. Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor Night and day, U • S • S steels are being used Scholarship W inners 548 to turn out staggering tonnages of plates, struc¬ tural shapes, Yoder mill sections, commercial Wilbur J. Carr Memorial Fund 548 forgings and castings. Multigrip floor plates, special shipbuilding sections. Births 548 All these improvements and advances of UNITED STATES STEEL — the world's largest Marriages . 548 steelmaker—are designed to serve shipbuilders everywhere. In Memoriam 548 Service Glimpses 552-553 Letter to the Editors 558 Visitors 579 UNITED STATES STEEL EXPORT CO. Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Associa¬ 30 CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK 8, U.S.A. tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C., Entered as WE SERVE THE WORLD second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. 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American Security and Trust Company— 549 Alexandria and Suez (Egypt) Association of Pacific Fisheries 579 Aviation Corporation, The 561 Branches or Agents in: Jaffa, Palestine Bacardi 564 Alexandria, Egypt Cairo, Egypt Jerusalem, Palestine Barr Shipping Co - 525 Port Said, Egypt Haifa, Palestine Suez, Egypt Beirut, Lebanon Bowling Green Storage & Van Co. 557 Port Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Iskenderon, Turkey Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Damascus, Syria Calvert School .. 579 Djibouti, French Somaliland Ankara, Turkey Campbell, W. D„ & Co 579 Addis Abeba, Ethiopia Izmir, Turkey Jedda, Arabia Istanbul, Turkey Chase National Bank 577 Nicosia, Cyprus Valetta, Malta Curtiss-Wright Corp.—Airplane Division 524 Douglas Aircraft Company — 558 AMERICAN IRAQI SHIPPING CO., LTD. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. — 526 (Only American-Owned Shipping Firm Goodyear Tire & Rubmber Co. 550-551 in Persian Gulf) Grace Line 565 Basrah and Baghdad (Iraq) Harris & Ewing 572 Hiram Ricker & Sons, Poland Water.. 559 Branches or Agents in: International Telephone & Telegraph Co 563 Baghdad, Iraq Bandar Abbas, Iran Teheran, Iran Leggett, Francis H., & Company 575 Basrah, Iraq Khorramshahr, Iran Bahrein, Bahrein Islands Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co 522 Bandar Shahpour, Iran RasTannurah, Saudi Arabia Abadan, Iran Koweit, Arabia Mayflower Hotel 566 Bushire, Iran Mosul, Iraq Montgomery Ward & Co 576 National City Bank 574 National Distillers Corp 569 National Geographic Magazine 573 Pan-American Airways, Inc 571 Schenley Products II & III COVERS Security Storage Company of Washington 549 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc 567 Southern and Standard Engravers 570 Texaco Petroleum Products 568 Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc J—. 555 Tyner, Miss E. 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FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES The following changes have occurred in the American Foreign Service since August 5, 1944: BARR SERVICE George H. Butler of Evanston, Illinois, First Secretary of American Embassy at Lima, Pern, has been designated Thirty Years of Continuous Service to Counselor of American Embassy at Panama, Panama. Gerald A. Drew of San Francisco, California, Second Exporters and Importers Secretary of American Embassy at Guatemala, Guatemala, has been designated Secretary of the American Mission and • American Consul at Algiers, Algeria, and will serve in dual capacity. International Thomas S. Estes of Worcester, Massachusetts, Secretary of American Mission and American Vice Consul at Algiers, Algieria, has been assigned to Naples, Italy, to serve on SHIPPING AGENTS the staff of the United States Political Advisor on the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean FOREIGN FREIGHT FORWARDERS Theatre. J. Allard Gasque of Florence, South Carolina, American Vice Consul at Cochabamba, Bolivia, has been designated FREIGHT AND CUSTOM HOUSE American Vice Consul at Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. Franklin C. Gowen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, now BROKERS assigned to the Department of State, has been assigned to Vatican City. INSURANCE Casper D. Green of Casper, Ohio, American Vice Consul at Concepcion, Chile, has been designated Third Secretary of the American Embassy and American Vice Consul at • Santiago, Chile, and will serve in dual capacity. John J. Muccio of Providence, Rhode Island, Counselor BARR SHIPPING COMPANY of American Embassy at Panama, Panama, has been desig¬ nated Counselor of American Embassy at Habana, Cuba. is able to help its clients achieve that most Gail Murphy of Orlando, Florida, Senior Economic An¬ important factor in international trade— alyst in the American Embassy at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, mutual understanding and confidence be¬ has been designated Senior Economic Analyst in the Amer¬ ican Embassy at Panama, Panama. tween seller and buyer. H. Earle Russell of Battle Creek, Michigan, American For thirty years BARR SHIPPING COM¬ Consul General at Casablanca, Morocco, has been desig¬ nated American Consul General at Capetown, Cape Prov¬ PANY has dealt with exporters and import¬ ince, Union of South Africa. ers in a score of foreign countries, and Charles H. Taliaferro of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Amer¬ experience is a good teacher. ican Vice Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been assigned American Vice Consul at Fredericton, New In the export business, perhaps more than Brunswick, Canada, for temporary duty. in any other, it is fundamentally true that: Henry T. Unverzagt of East Falls Church, Virginia, American Vice Consul at Medellin, Colombia, has been GOODWILL is an asset designated American Vice Consul at Guadalajara, Jalisco, Whose Market Value Never Fluctuates Mexico. S. Walter Washington of Charles Town, West Virginia, • now assigned to the Department of State, has been desig¬ nated First Secretary of the American Embassy and Amer¬ On request, we will mail you a copy of a booklet ican Consul at San Jose, Costa Rica, and will serve in dual capacity. containing American Foreign Trade Definitions. Robert F. Woodward of Minneapolis, Minnesota, now assigned to the Department of State, has been designated • Second Secretary of the American Embassy at Guatemala, Guatemala. BARR SHIPPING The following changes have occurred in the American Foreign Service since August 12, 1944: COMPANY Garret