The Foreign Service Journal, April 1943
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g/« AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL 20, NO. 4 JOURNAL APRIL, 1943 - FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS THE FINEST OF NORTH AMERICAN WINES Do you. want to experience a feeling oj pride next time you entertain? Then serve this distinguished wine jrom your own country, and discreetly observe the appreciation it receives from the connoisseurs among your guests. Cresta Blanca Wines have been winning awards from international judges ever since the Paris exposition of 1889. Now for the first time they are available to members of the American Foreign Service. Nine superb types. CONTENTS APRIL, 1943 Cover Picture: .50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun (See page 219) The Mystery of Dakar: An Enigma Resolved.... 169 By Thomas C. Wasson Countries at War and Related Data 175 “Freedom of the Air” in the Americas 178 By T. N. Sandifer Andorra 180 By Temple Wanamaker, Jr. Editors’ Column 182 News from the Department 183 Clippers are hastening By Jane Wilson the day of victory News from the Field 186 THE instant we win this war, all geographical The Rookshelf 188 barriers will disappear. The "foreigner,” who Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor used to be strange and different because he lived across an ocean, will become as familiar to you as Decentralized Export Control 190 the man in the next town. London and Paris will By Frederick T. Merrill be ten hours from New York—Chungking, China, twenty hours from San Francisco. And this travel will not be just for the well-to- Uniform Insignia—U. S. Navy 192-3 do. Pan American’s knowledge of technological improvements (based on more than 165,000,000 I Hire a Marmiton 194 miles of overseas flight) indicates that air travel By Laurence W. Taylor costs will be brought down within reach of the average man and woman. Service Glimpses 195 • • • Today, of course, Pan American is working over¬ Victory Fair 196 time to help make possible the Victory on which By Norma F. McEnelly all our plans for a better world must be built. Pan American World Airways System Foreign Service Retirements 203 Departmental Lapse 204 Births 208 In Memoriam 208 Marriages 219 Visitors 219 Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Associa- ' tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C.. under the act of March 3, 1879. APRIL, 1943 165 MAKING HOME PORT The men of the American Merchant Marine are doing the greatest ocean transport job in history ON THE LONG VOYAGE OUT AND THE LONG VOYAGE HOME where a cigarette counts most. /TS Cf/rSTERF/ElD . and Chesterfields count plenty these days . they v g've pleasure where other pleasures can’t be had. 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APRIL, 1943 The Mystery of Dakar: An Enigma Resolved By THOMAS C. WASSON, Department of State THE African port of Dakar first swam into the journalistic strategists, our professional purveyors of ken of many Americans in 1938, when they gossip, the people who write letters-to-the-editor, and read in Anne Lindbergh’s best seller, Listen, the authors of magazine articles and books. At dinner Wind, how she and her husband had been unable to tables and cocktail parties the mere mention of make a stopover in the “Dakar” became freight¬ remote West African ed with sinister over¬ port because of a yellow tones. Perhaps it is sel¬ fever epidemic. They dom that so much is said were pioneering in 1933 by so many about a over air routes that are place so little known. now, only ten years later, As I propose in this a ferry shuttle service. article to disclose some But Dakar did not facts not hitherto known come into its big fame in a field where contro¬ in America until after versy has been rampant, France fell in 1940. Sud¬ perhaps I need not denly that harbor hidden apologize for starting under the westernmost out with some autobio¬ tip of Africa assumed graphical data, in order portentous importance to establish, so to speak, for us. In our eyes it my credentials. became a loaded pistol My first visit to Dakar pointing across the At¬ was a brief stopover in lantic at the heart of 1937, when I was on my Brazil and the New way to Lagos. In March World. The menace of 1939 I rounded out Dakar worried, not only more than eighteen our authorities, but also months of service in La¬ our learned columnists gos, the capital of the and radio commentators, British colony of Ni¬ our editorial writers and Thomas C. Wasson geria, in charge of the APRIL, 1943 169 MAURI TAN L ST. LOUIS Seney#/ American Consulate there; and 1 chose to use my accumulated leave by undertaking the long over¬ S E J 4r"S N E Gsi ■ land trip to Dakar and back. In my Ford sedan DAKAR \\ ‘-pKAOLACK {‘ and accompanied only by my native servant Fred Ihegbu, I drove north to Jos, Kano, and Sokoto, BATHURSt pAMATifc? TAMBACC and then made my way west through Niamey, Gao, J Timbuktu, Segou, Bamako, Kayes, Tambacounda, The itineraries tPOUTUQUESfc. 1 and finally to Dakar. I had covered about 3,500 of the author’s Bfl '"'UINEA) i 1 recent trips miles. I returned to Lagos by a southern route, through West F R visiting Gambia, Casamance, Portuguese Guinea, Africa are shown French Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, as follows: MAMOU’j Togoland, and Dahomey. Summarizing the trip in March - May, 1939, ; Feb- CONAKRY,--''" " \ | these few words makes it sound simple. But the ruary - March, reader should remember that all this part of the 1942, . FREETOW £ SIERRA| world is extremely primitive, and not a white man’s LEONE country. Wherever I went, I made a point of meet¬ ing the officials, the missionaries, the traders, and ...