The Foreign Service Journal, February 1964
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FOREIGN JOURNAL The Foreign Service Journal is the professional journal of the American For¬ eign Service and is published by the American Foreign Service Association, a non¬ PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION profit private organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION State, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for International U. ALEXIS JOHNSON, President Development or the Foreign Service as a whole. MARSHALL GREEN, Vice President JULIAN F. HARRINGTON, General Manager BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary CLARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant HENRY B. DAY, Personal Purchases BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONTENTS FEBRUARY, 1964 TAYLOR G. BELCHER, Chairman Volume 41, No. 2 LESLIE S. BRADY, Vice Chairman GEORGE B. ROBERTS, JR., Secretary-Treasurer BENJAMIN WEINER, Asst. Secretary-Treasurer page WILLIS C. ARMSTRONG NATHANIEL DAVIS TOWARD A MODERN FOREIGN SERVICE 21 RICHARD K. FOX, JR. by William J. Crockett HARRY A. HINDERER EDWARD V. NEF GRACE E. WILSON EXPORTING THE PERFORMING ARTS 24 The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is com¬ posed of active and retired personnel who are or have by Lucius D. Battle been serving at home or abroad under the authority of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. It groups 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¬ THE DUKE AS AMBASSADOR 28 mum effectiveness, and to advance the welfare of its members. The dues for Active and Associate Members are either $13 or $10: For FSO’s in Class V and above the rate is $13 and is the same for FSR’s, itaff officers and THREE JUNIOR OFFICERS LOOK AT THE SERVICE 33 Civil Service personnel in corresponding grades. For Active Members in lower grades the dues are $10. The annual dues for retired members and others who are by Margaret Be shore. Robert Kaufman and Edward ISef 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¬ scription to the JOURNAL ($5.00), should write to the A SKIING YEAR IN ICELAND General Manager, AFSA, 1742 “G" Street, N.W., Wash¬ 36 ington 6, D. C. by Ruth Thompson JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD EDWIN M. J. KRETZMANN, Chairman GORDON EWING, Vice Chairman AROUND THE WORLD WITH A TWO-YEAR-OLD 38 FREDERIC L. CHAPIN ROBERT S. SMITH by William Clifford CHARLES S. WHITEHOUSE CHRISTIAN CHAPMAN GORDON CHASE JOEL BARLOW’S TRAGIC MISSION 50 JOHN DEWITT by Henry Lee SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Executive Editor TED OLSON, Editorial Consultant EDITH A. BELCHER AND ELIZARETH ANN NADLER, Editorial Assistants HELEN C. RICE, Circulation OTHER FEATURES: AFSA News, page 4; AAFSW Report, ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES: page 6; “Idiots and Idioms,” by Paul H. Engle, page 8; “A Tribute to Mrs. Carr,” by Richard F. Boyce, page 47. James C. Sasmor, 230 Riverside Drive New York 25, New York Duncan Scott & Company Fiftli Floor, 85 Post Street departments San Francisco 4, California and 1901 West Eighth Street TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO 14 Los Angeles 57, California by James B. Steivart The Foreign Service JOURNAL welcomes contribu¬ tions and will pay for accepted material on publication. WASHINGTON LETTER 30 Photos should 1M; black and white glossies and should be protected by cardboard. Negatives and color trans¬ by Ted Olson parencies are not acceptable. Please include full name and address on all material submitted and a stamped, self-addressed envelope if DEPARTMENT OF DISSENT: Belling the Cat 32 return is desired. by Mary Stuart © American Foreign Service Association, 1964. The Foreign Service Journal is published monthly (rates: §5.00 a year, 50 cents a copy), by the American For¬ THE BOOKSHELF eign Service Association, 1742 “G” St., N.W., Wash¬ 40 ington 6, D. C. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Printed by Monumental Printing Co., Baltimore. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 55 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, February 1964 1 Ambassadorial Nominations ANDREW V. CORRY, to Sierra Leone Cover Photo: C. BURKE ELBRICK, to Yugoslavia EDWIN M. MARTIN, to Argentina Marriages MACDONALD-STADTLER. Miss Maida Maria Macdonald and Walter Edward Stadtler were married on September 19, 1963, at Ettal Abbey, Bavaria. SMOOT-RICHARDS. Miss Mary Rachel Smoot of Elkins, West Virginia, was married on December 25, 1963, to Mr. Herbert Miles Richards in Elkins. Mr. Richards is the son of 'esund (West Coast of Norway) by Paul Child Ambassador and Mrs. Arthur L. Richards, Geneva. Photos and Art for February Births Paul Child, FSO-ret., “Alesund, West Coast of Norway,” cover. FRIEDLAND. A daughter, Karen Jennifer, born to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Friedland, on November 14. 1963, in Toronto. Howard R. Simpson, BPAO, Marseille, “Loading Rice, Sai¬ gon,” page 2. OLSON. A daughter. Kathleen Kay, born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Herbert J. Meyle, Dept, of State, photo, page 4. J. Olson, Jr., on December 19, 1963, in Barcelona. William F. McMenamin, IJSIA, photo, page 10. OPHULS. A son, Nicholas, born to Mr. and Mrs. William Ophuls, USIS, photos, pages 26, 28 & 29. on December 13, 1963, in Tokyo. R. E. Macaulay, USIA, “Khmer Temple, Banteay Strei, Cam¬ bodia,” photo, page 27. RAMSAY. A son, David Russ, born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Ramsay, on November 27, 1963, in Isfahan. Robert W. Rinden, FSO, “Life and Love in the Foreign Service,” page 31. SUDDARTH. A daughter, Anne Valerie, born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Williams, FSS, cartoon, page 35. Roscoe S. Suddarth, on December 11, 1963, in Beirut. Icelandic Airlines, photos, pages 36 & 37. D. E. Wilson, CPAO, Ottawa, photo, page 37. Deaths Edward L. Fischer, illustration, page 38. ANDERSON. William 0. Anderson, FSO, died on January 1, Jacques Callot, “The Fan,” etching, courtesy of the National 1964, in Bethesda, Maryland. Mr. Anderson entered the Gallery of Art, page 49. Foreign Service in 1945. He served at Capetown, Port Dana Andrews, wife of FSO Nicholas G. Andrews, etching, Elizabeth, Bangkok. Singapore, Berlin and the Department, page 55. where he attended the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy at the Foreign Service Institute. As requested by Mrs. Ander¬ Rutlianne Nadler, wife of FSR S. 1. Nadler, papercut, page 54. son, contributions in memory of Mr. Anderson may be made to the American Foreign Service Association Scholarship Fund. CAVANAUGH. Robert J. Cavanaugh, FSO-retired, died on De¬ cember 8. 1963. in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Cavanaugh entered the Foreign Service in 1929 and retired in 1962. He served at Bluefields. Windsor, Charlottetown, Montreal. Mexico City. Accra. St. John’s, N.F., Southampton, and Ed¬ monton, where he was consul at the time of his retirement. COULTER. Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke Coulter, wife of Eliot B. Coul¬ ter, a former FSO who retired from the Department of State, died on December 20, 1963, in Alexandria, Virginia. HUDDLE. Mrs. Carolena H. Huddle, widow of Ambassador J. Klahr Huddle, died on January 9, 1964, in Washington. MORGAN. Evelyn Vernor Kennedy Morgan, daughter of FSO George A. Morgan, died on December 21. 1963, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Morgan is Director of the Foreign Serv¬ ice Institute. O’CONNOR. Mrs. Mary Louise O’Connor, wife of FSO Edward R. O’Connor, died on December 17, 1963, in Dublin, Ireland, Loading Rice, Saigon Howard Simpson where Mr. O'Connor is assigned as Second Secretary. 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, February 1964 SEAGRAM’S IMPORTED One whisky has a special kind of lightness. Imported V.O. One whisky has a lightness that actually brings out the brilliance of the whisky. 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