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A. 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published, monthly by THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER, 1956 Volume 33, Number 9 CONTENTS page io FOREIGN SERVICE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS 21 MORALITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS by Howard Trivers AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 22 WASHINGTON POST REPORT by Mrs. Edith Belcher Honorary President JOHN FOSTER DULLES, Secretary of State Honorary Vice-Presidents 24 THE OLYMPIC GAMES by Gerald Warner THE UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARIES OF ST AH THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE THE COUNSELOR THE LECAL ADVISER departments THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SEH\U K LOY W. HENDERSON, President GEORGE V. ALLEN, Vice President 4 APPOINTMENTS AND DESIGNATIONS BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary board of directors ft INDEX TO ADVERTISERS HENRY S. VILLARD, Chairman ANNE W. MERIAM, Vice Chairman 8 BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES HARRY A. MCBRIDE THOMAS S. ESTES, Secretary-Treasurer CHRISTOPHER A. SQUIRE, Asst. Sec.-Treas. 14 AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS Alternates ROBERT I. OWEN 16 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart STANLEY M. CLEVELAND JOHN F. O'GRADY HOWARD TRIVERS 28 EDITORIALS: journal editorial board WILLIAM R. TYLER, Chairman S-3481 JOSEPH PALMER, 2ND Reorganization and the Staff Corps CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. EDMUND GUI.LION EDWARD W. MULCAHY 29 NEWS TO THE FIELD JOSEPH J. WAGNER NORMAN HANNAH MARY VANCE TRENT 30 SERVICE GLIMPSES WILLIAM L. KRIEC RICHARD H. DAVIS JOHN T. WHEELOCK 32 THE BOOKSHELF by Francis C. de Wolf 1 GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor GEORGE BUTLER, liusiness Manager 3ft NEWS FROM THE FIELD HESTER H. HENDERSON, Editorial Assistant and Circulation Manager The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICF, ASSOCIATION is an 48 ADDRESSES OF RETIRED FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the United States and the Department of State. 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