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The Foreign Service Journal, October 1964 Oiir €€Jolm F. Kennedy Half-Dollar” Service Qome months ago, when we inaugurated our “Department of Personal Services for Overseas Personnel,” we never dreamed of the many and varied personal and special services we would be asked to perform for our customers overseas. Tnsofar as we know, no other bank—large or small—in the United States offers our vast range of such services. It was for this specific reason—to meet and fill the needs of overseas Americans—that we created this unusual Department and staffed it with an Assistant Vice President who spent more than 30 years, in and out of Washington, as a career Foreign Service Officer. A s this Department continues to increase its volume of busi- ness, it seeks to anticipate the needs and wants of overseas Americans—in Government, business, industry, etc. The insistent demand for the John F. Kennedy half-dollars that developed when they first appeared this Spring made it clear that Americans overseas were unlikely to obtain uncirculated examples to hold as souvenirs or to present to selected contacts in the communities where they were living. Accordingly, we reserved one uncirculated Kennedy coin at face value for each overseas customer with a regular checking account and so informed them. We offered to try to obtain more if they desired. This is what one of them replied: “Our sincere appreciation for reserving the John F. Kennedy half-dollar for us. It is virtually impossible for us to obtain one here in Libya. “Please charge our account with it and hold it for us until the fall of 1965. We expect to arrive back in the area at this time. “It is our privilege to enjoy your most efficient service and look forward to continu¬ ing our association upon returning to the States. '^^hy don’t you, too, ask the Manager of this special Department how we can be of assistance to you. Write direct Albert E. Clattenburg, Jr. Assistant Vice President FALLS CHURCH, VA. CABLE—PERSER, WASHINGTON, D. C. Depository for: Member U.S. Government Federal Deposit Insurance Co. Commonwealth of Virginia Federal Reserve System County of Fairfax, Va. FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION The Foreign Service JOURNAL is the professional journal of the American Foreign Service and is published by the American Foreign Service Association, U. ALEXIS JOHNSON, President a non-profit private organization. Material appearing herein represents the MARSHALL GREEN, Vice President opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the JULIAN F. HARRINGTON, General Manager Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary International Development or the Foreign Service as a whole. CLARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant HENRY B. DAY, Personal Purchases BOARD OF DIRECTORS October, 1964 YV. T. M. BEALE, Chairman Volume 41, No. 10 NATHANIEL DAVIS, Vice-Chairman co ents GEORGE B. ROBERTS, JR., Secretary-Treasurer BENJAMIN WEINER, Asst. Secretaty-Treasuier page RICHARD K. FOX, JR. HARRY A. HINDERER 4 OUR NOBLE DREAM: THE INTELLECTUAL AND ARTHUR W. HUMMEL, JR. FOREIGN POLICY NUF.L L. PAZDRAL by Charles Burton Marshall GRACE E. WILSON H. F REEMAN MATTHEWS, Career Ambassador, ret'd. 23 THE AMBASSADOR JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD by Willard P. If ran lac EDWIN M. J. KRETZMANN, Chairman CHARLES S. WHITEHOUSE, Vice Chairman FREDERIC L. CHAPIN 32 MY KID SISTER AND CYPRUS ROBERT S. SMITH by Robert W. Barnett GORDON CHASE JOHN DEWITT REED HARRIS 35 THE MONK, THE DEMON AND THE GOLDEN MONKEY LINDSEY GRANT by Edmund Demaitre JOURNAL STAFF LOREN CARROLL, Editor SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Executive Editor 42 THE MAFIA IN SICILY ELIZABETH ANN NADLER, Editorial Assistant by Ren wick S. MclSiece HELEN C. RICE, Circulation MCIVER ART & PUBLICATIONS INC. Art Direction 45 THE LEARNED BLACKSMITH BECOMES A CONSUL hy Leo J. Michaloski ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES ROBERT C. JOHNSON, Robert C. Johnson 8c Asso¬ ciates, 3757 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 5, California OTHER FEATURES: JOURNAL Contributors, page 2; Portraits by JAMES C. SASMOR, 230 Riverside Drive, New York Patric, page 28; “Behind the Shutter, Part V," by Paul Child, page 41; 25, New York AFSA News, page 51; AAFSW Report, page 51; New AFSA Board Members, page 52. The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is com¬ posed of active and retired personnel who are or have been serving at home or abroad under the authority of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. It groups departments together people who have a common responsibility for the implementation of foreign policy. It seeks to en¬ courage the development of a career service of maxi¬ 18 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO mum effectiveness, and to advance the welfare of its by James B. Stewart members. The dues for Active and Associate Members are either $13 or $10: For FSO’s in Class V and above the 29 EDITORIAL: Science in State rate is $13 and is the same for FSR’s, Staff officers and Civil Service personnel in corresponding grades. For Active Members in lower grades the dues are $10. The 30 WASHINGTON LETTER annual dues for retired members and others who are by Loren Carr€>ll not Active Members are also $10. Each membership includes a subscription to the Foreign Service JOURNAL. Those interested in membership or in a separate sub¬ 36 THE BOOKSHELF scription to the JOURNAL ($6.00), should write to the General Manager, AFSA, 815 - 17th Street, N.W., Wash¬ ington, D. C. 20006. 54 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, October 1964 Marriage DAVID-HAYES. Mrs. Joan Eames David and Mr. John N. Hayes were married on September 7, 1964, in the Westmoreland Congregational Church, Westmoreland Hills, Maryland. Mrs. Hayes served as Managing Editor of the Foreign Serv¬ ice JOURNAL from 1949 to 1952. Mr. Hayes is Deputy Di- recor of the Office of U. S. Programs and Service in the Bureau of Cultural Affairs. JOHNSEN-SCHILLING. Miss Susanna Johnsen was married on August 1, 1964, at St. Albans Episcopal Church, in Wash¬ ington, to Mr. Theodore Albert Schilling. Mrs. Schilling is the daughter of FSO James A. May and Mrs. May (former FSO Elizabeth B. Johnson.) Mr. Schilling is with IBM in Kuwait, where the couple will reside. Births DAVIS. A daughter, Kathryn Berry, born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Davis on May 16, in Washington. DEHART. A daughter, Mary Catherine, born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. DeHart, on June 24 at Bethesda, Maryland. SCHWARTZ. A son, Christopher Louis, born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schwartz, on July 15, 1964, in Florida. Death BROWN. Robert Young Brown, FSO-retired, died on August 23, 1964, in Dothan. Alabama. Mr. Brown entered the Foreign Service in 1928 and retired in 1957. He served at Baghdad, Cairo, Bogota, Panama, San Jose, Montevideo, Manila, Athens, Department, Kingston and Ciudad Juarez where he was Consul General at the time of his retirement. Market Place, Cotonou, Dahomey LINARD. Mrs. Sarah Wilson Linard, wife of the late Consul Drew Linard, died on August 10, at Santa Monica, Cali¬ fornia at the age of eighty-five. Photos ami Art for October Daniel Lee McCarthy, FSR, cover photo. JOURNAL CONTRIBUTORS Howard R. Simpson, USIA, cartoons, pages 27 and 44. WILLARD BEAULAC’S last post was as Ambassador to Ar¬ Patricia Bauernschmidt, wife of John E. Bauernschmidt, gentina. He retired from active service in 1962 and is now USIA, “Portraits by Patric,” page 28. writing and lecturing. Dana Andrews, wife of FSO Nicholas G. Andrews, sketch, ROBERT W. BARNETT is an FSO whose “The Deal” ap¬ “Storm over Vojvodina Plains, Serbia,” page 37. peared in the March, 1964, issue of the Foreign Service JOURNAL. Louis Joseph Soulas, “Campagne de France,” page 38. REN WICK S. MCNIECE retired from the Foreign Service in Robert W. Rinden, FSO-retired, “Life and Love in the 1948 while serving as Consul General at Palermo. Since Foreign Service,” page 31. then he has paid several extensive visits to Sicily. Paul Child, FSO-retired, “Behind the Shutter,” page 41. A specialist in the world Communist movement, EDMUND DEMAITRE is one of the commentators of the Voice of Ameri¬ ca. A long time foreign correspondent, he has written several books on international affairs. The Foreign Service JOURNAL welcomes contributions and will pay for accepted material on publication. Photos should be black What got LEO MICHALOSKI interested in Elihu Burritt? and white glossies and should be protected by cardboard. Negatives Answer: he went to the Burritt Elementary School and the and color transparencies are not acceptable. Please include full name and address on all material submitted Burritt Junior High School in his native city, New Britain, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope if return is desired. Connecticut. Mr. Michaloski, deputy Security officer in the Department of Justice, got his B.S. from the University of The JOURNAL also welcomes letters to the editor. Pseudonyms may be used only if the original letter includes the writer’s correct Connecticut and his LL.B. from Georgetown University. name. All letters are subject to condensation. Address material to: Foreign Service Journal, 815-17th Street, PATRIC (Patricia Bauernschmidt) believes that the character N.W., Suite 505, Washington, D.C., 20006. of a nation is shown in the faces of its people. As the wife of a Foreign Service officer (USIA) she has utilized her op¬ © American Foreign Service Association, 1964. The Foreign Serv¬ portunities while living in Asia to demonstrate this principle ice Journal is published monthly (rates: $6.00 a year, 60 cents a in a series of portraits titled “People of the Pacific.” copy), by the American Foreign Service Association, 815 - 17th St., N.W., Washington, D.
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