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The Foreign Service Journal, September 1931 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Photo from C. E. Guyant. TYPICAL COSTA RICAN MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE Vol. VIII SEPTEMBER, 1931 No. 9 WASHINGTON AND HIS GENERALS FOREIGN S JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. VIII, No. 9. WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER, 1931 Telling the World About the Washington Bicentennial By HONORABLE SOL BLOOM, Member of Congress from New York, and Associate Director of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission AMERICA’S dip¬ of every foreign coun¬ lomatic and com¬ try : as soon as its pop¬ mercial repre¬ ulace comes to know sentatives the world Washington as he over have a unique and really was, it will be splendid opportunity to fired with the ambition acquaint every country to make his Bicenten¬ on the globe with the nial the greatest trib¬ plans of this Commis¬ ute ever paid to any sion to celebrate in hero of any nation. 1932 the George Wash¬ There are various ington Bicentennial. It ways in which all the is within their power to embassies, legations arouse in all nations and consulates of the an enthusiastic interest United States can help in the Bicentennial and to carry out the will of a determination to con¬ Congress by working tribute largely to its for the world-wide suc¬ cess of the Bicenten¬ Our experience thus nial. In the first place, far has demonstrated it is our hope and pur¬ that the individual’s en¬ pose that Americans, thusiasm for the cele¬ wherever they may he bration follows inevi¬ residing abroad, will tably upon his acquir¬ stage ceremonies and ing an intimate knowl¬ festivities to mark the edge of George Wash¬ Bicentennial. Already ington’s character and in the world capitals career. The same thing and many other for¬ will be found to be true HONORABLE SOL BLOOM eign cities the Ameri- 341 can colonies have set up George Washington Bi¬ this country and went to Mount Vernon as the centennial committees to cooperate with our na¬ guest of George Washington, who left many tional body. references in his diaries to the sculptor’s visit Obviously, therefore, this country’s representa¬ and work. tives abroad can give us constant and invaluable I thoroughly agree with the finding of our com¬ assistance by keeping those American colonies mittee of artists and historians. Since the Hou¬ and the foreign populations acquainted with our don bust was made in Washington’s presence and plans as they develop. Let us have such cooper¬ under Washington’s criticism, there can be no ation from all our representatives in other lands, doubt that the work pleased its subject; and from and inevitably the result will be a splendid Bicen¬ this it follows that the likeness must have been tennial celebration girdling the globe. good. To me, that portrait bust is superb. It is The United States George Washington Bicen¬ not only a wonderful work of art, but in its ex¬ tennial Commission has received assurances from quisite portrayal of George Washington it shows many of our ambassadors, ministers and consuls us the man as he was, reveals those lofty quali¬ that they are eager to give us any help we may ties of mind, heart and soul which made him the need or desire. Naturally, such assurances are greatest of ail the sons of America. highly gratifying. But we shall be still more The Commission is having more than a quarter gratified and encouraged if these gentlemen will of a million photographic copies made of the display to us and to the world at large a badge Houdon bust. We shall be glad to send this pic¬ of their enthusiasm—an outward and visible sign ture to every American representative abroad who of the spirit with which they approach the Bicen¬ requests it. tennial. Such a sign will be a banner held aloft We could, of course, have it sent to them with¬ to attract the attention of all men and to enroll out waiting for requests; but we want to feel them in our campaign to make the George Wash¬ that they are sufficiently interested in the Bicen¬ ington Bicentennial a 100 percent success. tennial to ask for it in a letter addressed to the To be specific, we should like to know that the United States George Washington Bicentennial “official portrait” of George Washington is hung Commission, Washington Building, Washington, on the walls of all the United States embassies, D. C. We believe that, if they do this, we may legations and consulates. rest assured that they will hang the portraits on Right here let me explain the significance of the walls of their offices. the term, “official portrait.” One of the first That is to say, we shall regard their letters of acts of this Commission was to request a commit¬ request as proofs of their enthusiasm for the Bi¬ tee of distinguished American artists and histo¬ centennial, and as evidence that they will give us rians to select from all the known likenesses of and the Bicentennial celebration all possible as¬ Washington the one which they regarded as the sistance. best, the most life-like and absolutely authentic. The Bicentennial is to be observed from Wash¬ This action was taken because the Commission ington’s birthday, February 22, 1932, until the had decided to put Washington’s portrait into following Thanksgiving Day. In the United every school in the United States and, in addi¬ States each community will designate, within the tion, to give it through other channels a tremen¬ celebration period of nearly 10 months, a number dous circulation and display. of patriotic dates on which it will have exercises The committee of artists and historians, after to mark the event. In this way for almost a year, painstaking study of the likenesses, fixed upon from cr.e end of the country to the other the peo¬ the Houdon bust as the best of them all. This ple will be thinking of George Washington’s deeds bust was made at Mount Vernon by the French¬ and ideals. man, Jean Antoine IToudon, who during the last So far as is possible, Americans residing abroad quarter of the eighteenth century was at the will follow this general plan; and, according to height of his fame as that era’s best portrait unofficial advices from diplomats stationed in our sculptor. national capital, practically every foreign gov¬ In 1784 the Legislature of Virginia adopted a ernment in the world will participate in the com¬ resolution “that measures be taken for procuring memoration. a statue of General Washington, of the finest Hence, American diplomats and consuls can be marble and best workmanship.” After careful of constant aid to us by seeing that the foreign inquiry and consultation, in which Thomas Jeffer¬ press carries much information about the prog¬ son and Benjamin Franklin played important ress of our plans to celebrate the Bicentennial and parts, Houdon was selected as the artist best also a large volume of our publicity material equipped to fashion the likeness. He came to about the personality and achievements of Wash- 342 ington. Nobody knows better than these gentle¬ on George Washington by President Hoover. By men that the personal touch is essential in secur¬ means of a gigantic hook-up this speech is to be ing publicity. Consequently, if they will make carried around the globe. Following it on the personal appeals, and requests through their air, will be the singing of the Star Spangled Ban¬ friends, to foreign publishers to give the Bicen¬ ner by a mammoth chorus in the national cap¬ tennial as much space as possible in their col¬ ital ; and our idea is that Americans and others, umns, they will do great work in creating and wherever they may be, will join in singing the sustaining a world-wide interest in the commemo¬ national anthem. ration. This vision of the populaces of the world simul¬ They will help us, too, if they will stress, in taneously singing our national hymn conveys a their contacts with publicists, the fact that this picture of what the Commission is trying to Bicentennial is to be a cumulation of individual bring about: a world-wide thinking about George homage and tributes. In every sense, we are tak¬ Washington, such a universal Washington mind¬ ing this celebration to the people, limiting it edness that all the nations shall be inspired by neither to one place nor to one date. knowing more intimately, and coming closer to, As every community in the United States is to the heart and spirit of the great American. To be a vital link in the chain of commemoration, so bring this about, a great deal of preparatory work will all the American colonies abroad and all the has been done and must still be done, and to make foreign governments be essential parts of the great this work effective abroad, the cooperation of our world-wide drama of the Bicentennial celebration. diplomats and consuls is essential. In other words, our ideal is that everybody in That they will gladly and enthusiastically give foreign countries, as well as every American at us this cooperation, the Commission has not the slightest doubt. Needless to say, we shall take home, shall develop such enthusiasm for the char¬ acter and career of George Washington that they pleasure in providing them with any information they may desire about George Washington and will eagerly seize every opportunity to contribute in answering all their inquiries about our plans to the success of his Bicentennial. And in no way can this enthusiasm be aroused so surely or so to celebrate the Bicentennial.
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