The Foreign Service Journal, September 1959
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Excellent Nursing Care PATIENTS, RELATIVES, AND PARENTS TO THE MARYLANDER • Special Diets MEMBER: • Spacious Living Room with TV Maryland State Federation of Nursing Homes • Beautiful Dining Room American Association of Nursing Homes • Verandas on All Floors • Private Swimming Pool For Additional Information • Eight Acres of Gardens DIAL 301 WAVERLY 6-0399 • Spacious Grounds for Walking or • Private Wing for the Senile • Wing for Retired Desiring Comfort Write: I HE MARYLANDER, Germantown, Md. and Companionship Approximately 30 minutes drive out Wisconsin Avenue Extended from downtown Washington 2 The Foreign Service Journal is not official and material appearing^ herein rep¬ resents only the opinions of the writers, and is not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION CONTENTS SEPTEMBER, 1959 JOSEPH C. SATTERTHWAITE, President Volume 36, Number 9 G. FREDERICK REINHARDT, Vice President DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary pave BOARD OF DIRECTORS 21 THE AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE J. GRAHAM PARSONS, Chairman by H. G. Nicholas THOMAS S. ESTES, Vice Chairman MAX V. KREUS, Secretary-Treasurer 23 STRICTLY A BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT STEPHEN WINSHIP, Ass’t. Secretary-Treasurer by Constance G. Javorskv CHARLES W. ADAIR, JR. WILLIAM 0. BOSWELL 40 LETTER FROM GHANA CULVER GLEYSTEEN by Marian Kirchwehm ROBERT H. MCBRIDE CLINT E. SMITH 44 EMPIRE’S REACH MARGARET J. TIBBETTS by Charles F. Knox, Jr. 48 ON WRITING FOR THE GOVERNMENT by John P. McKnight The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the United States and the Department of State. The As¬ 52 ND AND NEWS BRIEFING sociation was formed for the purpose of fostering by Lincoln White esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. departments JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD W. T. M. BEALE, JR., Chairman 4 USIA HONOR AWARDS JOHN H. BURNS CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. 6 FSO’S-RETIRED ADDRESS CHANGES EDWARD W. CLARK HENRY C. RAMSEY 12 FSS PROMOTIONS JAMES CARSON PHILIP H. CHADBOURN, JR. 26 EDITORIAL PAGES EILEEN R. DONOVAN RICHARD T. DAVIES 30 WASHINGTON LETTER by Gwen Barrows GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager 32 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart JANE D. FISHBURNE, Editorial and Adv. Asst. WINIFRED B. TURNER, Circulation Manager 34 THE BOOKSHELF 47 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES The Editorial Board of the FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL will consider all articles 54 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR submitted. If accepted, the author will be paid one cent a word at time of publication. Photo¬ graphs accompanying articles will, if accepted, be purchased at one dollar each. Five dollars is paid for cover and full page pictures. Nega¬ “Parisian Painter” tives and color transparencies are not accepta¬ ble. Photos should be black and white glossies, measuring approximately 7x9 inches, and by Robert Sward should be mailed between heavy cardboard. No photos are returned. September’s gun is a golden one Copyright, 1959, by the American Foreign Service Association. Issued monthly at the rate of $4.00 a year, 50 cents painter a copy, by the American Foreign Service Association, in Paris. 1908 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Second- class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Printed in U.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com* t-any, Baltimore. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS USIA HONOR AWARDS CEREMONY Please mention the Foreign Service Journal when writing to advertisers. USIA Director George V. Allen and Deputy Under Secretary Alban Towers 47 of State Loy W. Henderson presented awards on June 11, 1959, American Express Company 9 at the Department of Interior auditorium, to the following, in American Security and Trust Company 33 American Storage Company „ 47 USIA’s Third Annual Honor Awards Ceremony: Arista Trading Company 6 Arlington Realty Company _. 42 Beam, James B., Distilling Company 1 1 Distinguished Service Award Begg, J. F., Incorporated 48 CONNORS, W. Bradley (posthumous) Bell, W., and Company 52 GRAHAM, Zelma S. Berens, F. W., Insurance Service, Incorporated 6 Calvert School, The 42 SPEER, Robert P. (posthumous) Chase Manhattan Bank, The 46 Chatel, Millicent—Realtor 46 Superior Service Award Circle Florists 50 Container Transport International, Inc. _ 39 BLOCK, Ralph J. HARNER, Charles E. Copenhaver, Engravers and Stationers 39 BROWN, Daniel KING, William B. DACOR 16 CORNEJO M., Eduardo KUMAGAI, Naotada Diplomatic Appliance Corporation 49 Federal Storage Company 41 GONZAGA, Roberto STUART, John M., Jr. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company 37 First National City Bank of New York 18 Francis Scott Key Apartment Hotel „_ 52 Superior Service Unit Award General Electronics Incorporated 53 USIS Beirut, RSC Beirut and CPC Beirut Georgetown Properties, Incorporated 50 USIS Vienna Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ______ 13 Grace Line 10 Grcenbelt Pharmacy 51 Meritorious Service Award Hilltop House, Incorporated 51 International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation 5 AFFELDER, Charles J, LITTELL, Wallace W. Kellogg, The M. W., Company 11 APPELBOM, Olof MASEY, Jack C. Marylander Home of Rest, The 2 BAIER, Luisa E. MCGILLIVRAY, James H. Mayflower Hotel ; 50 McLachlen Banking Corporation 48 BARDOS, Arthur A. MCGRAIL, T. H. (posthumous) Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 16 BARMINE, Alexander G. MORANC, Frank L. Miller, R. William, Jr. 51 BHAGUT, Nandaram NACANUMA, Shigetaka National Distillers Products Company - 12, 43 BLACUTT, Tomas PASARIBU, Josef Park Central Hotel 48 BROWER, Richard C. PETERSON, Carl H. Parks, James E., Real Estate Broker 48 CASLER, Harry S. PHILLIPS, Ralph L. Paxton Van Lines 53 CHANDY, Matthew J. PRIVITERA, Radin, Rhea—Realtor 52 Joseph F. Radio Corporation of America 19 CHANG, Victor Sung-Sheng REED, Leonard Reynolds Tobacco Company 15 CHENC, Tsi Yau RHINE, F. Wayne Riggs National Bank, The 20 CONLAN, Margaret SAYRE, Kenneth H. Schenley Industries—Overseas II Cover CONROY, Paul R. SEN, Narendra Bijoy Seagram Distillers Corporation 17 CUT, Nguyen Thi Security Storage Company 33 MUCINO, Jesus Sevilla DONAHUE, Francis J. Service Investment Corporation 8 SICAM, Fidel P. Simmons Properties 39 DUNLAP, Henry A. SIVAPRAKASAM, P. K. Smith’s Transfer and Storage Company 42 EWING, Gordon A. SMITH, William H. State Department Federal Credit Union 49 FIGUEIRA, Zila da Costa SNYDER, C. Kenneth Swartz, Walter H., Company 1 GIARRUSSO, Luigi STANSBURY, Edward United Services Officers’ Insurance Association 46 GOODWIN, Harold L. SURI, Balraj United States Lines 18 GOPALAN, Ramaswamy Waldorf-Astoria, The : jy Cover TAGLIACOZZO, Giorgio Woodward & Lothrop 18 GREENLEE, Samuel E„ Jr. THOMAS, James S. Zenith Radio Corporation 7 HALABI, Nicholas T. UNO, Fujio HARTLAND, Robert E. VAFIADES, John A. HENRY, George D., Jr. VAVRE, Andre G. PHOTO AND ART CREDITS FOR SEPTEMHER HICKEY, Dorothy Anne WARREN, Willis R. HISSEN, Margaret WHANG, Andrew C. K. Robert Sivard, The Cover: “Parisian Painter” HOLZAPFEL, Hans WHITTINCTON, Hugh Gorman Embassy of Pakistan, photos, pp. 24, 25 KEKICH, William P. WICGIN, John L. KEOGH, William H. WILSON, Earl J. Tooton’s Studios (No. 2—Newfoundland), p. 28 KRIEGER, Gordon C. ZORTHIAN, Barry Morris Graves, “Young Gander Ready for Flight,” Phillips Collection, Washington, p. 30 Meritorious Service Unit Award Dean Richardson, “Bicycle Rider,” from the “Fulbright Painters” collection, Smithonian Institution, p. 30 Staff of “America Illustrated” Gauguin, “Les Meules,” p. 31 USIS Dacca Hungarian Service, IBS and Hungarian Unit, MPC Howard R. Simpson, picture, p. 34 Chinese Staff, USIS Taipei “Foreign Service Types,” p. 55 Gerhard Marcks, illustration for “The Tower of Babel” (New ICA MID-CAREER TRAINING PROGRAM Directions, NYC), p. 35 The Institute on ICA Development Programming recently “The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris,” p. 38, book jacket illustration, (Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo) graduated its second session of ICA personnel. This Institute is an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins University, was inaugurated Darshan Lall, “Pavement Curio Shop,” p.