g/u AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 21, NO. 8 JOURNAL AUGUST, 1944 I ire* j # if JwVt' .*:•**. -1 JJi 1 ‘'W&r Stasstll -■ - ...but it's whiskey, sir... .. moreover, it's American whiskey, sir... ...in fact, it's THREE FEATHERS, sir! Smart people choose American whiskey nowadays Wherever whiskey is known . and From there to a passion for THREE where isn’t it? . American whiskey FEATHERS is just a step. For is rapidly acquiring a name to con¬ THREE FEATHERS is the American jure with. whiskey par excellence . smooth, People are waking up to the fact mellow, satisfying. that America, too, has its whiskey tra¬ Are you overlooking something fine dition . and are drawing conclusions from your own land? Try THREE YANQUI Y SODA: A new twist to an old whiskey standby. Here's from the fact that world sales of FEATHERS in what Latin America how to make it: 1 . Pour an ounce and one-half of Three Feathers in American whiskies top those of any is rapidly learning to call a “Yanqui a highball glass. 2. Add ice, if you like ice, in your tall drinks. 3. other kind. y Soda”! Fill glass with soda. 4. Twist a piece of lemon peel over drink, and serve. OLDETYME DISTILLERS CORPORATION, Empire State Building, New York THE AMERICAN WHISKEY THREE FEATHERS PAR EXCELLENCE & This rallying cry is appearing in all Schenley advertising in Latin America LIBERTY CONTENTS AMERICAN EASTERN AUGUST, 1944 TRADING & SHIPPING C0.,S.A.E. Cover Picture: On the Banks of the Volga Alexandria and Suez (Egypt) (See page 415) Branches or Agents in: How Promotions are Made 405 Alexandria, Egypt Jaffa, Palestine By Nathaniel P. Davis Cairo, Egypt Jerusalem, Palestine Port Said, Egypt Haifa, Palestine Beirut, Lebanon Report of the Internment and Repatriation of Suez, Egypt Port Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Islcenderon, Turkey the Official American Group in France 1942, Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Damascus, Syria 1943, 1944 409 Djibouti, French Somaliland Ankara, Turkey By Woodruff Wallner Addis Abeba, Ethiopia Izmir, Turkey Jedda, Arabia Istanbul, Turkey Representation Allowances 414 Nicosia, Cyprus Valetta, Malta By Laurence C. Frank Marriages 415 AMERICAN IRAQI SHIPPING CO., LTD. (Only American-Owned Shipping Firm Member of Congress Receives Foreign Trade in Persian Gulf) Award 416 The Calvert System of Education. 417 Basrah and Baghdad (Iraq) Editors’ Column 420 Branches or Agents in: Baghdad, Iraq Bandar Abbas, Iran Ail Improved Foreign Service 421 Basrah, Iraq Teheran, Iran Bahrein, Bahrein Islands By Kingsley W. Hamilton Khorramshahr, Iran Bandar Shahpour, Iran RasTannurah, Saudi Arabia Abadan, Iran Koweit, Arabia Division of Research and Publication 423 Bushire, Iran Mosul, Iraq By William Gerber News from the Field The Bookshelf Francis C. rle Wolf, Review Editor The Early Birds By Henry S. Villard Foreign Service Changes Service Glimpses In Memoriam Births Visitors New York Representatives AMERICAN EASTERN CORP. Near East Division Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as 30 Rockefeller Plaza Circle 6-0333 second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. New York 20, N. Y. AUGUST, 1944 401 CAROLE LANDIS STARRING IN THE COLUMBIA PICTURE "BY SECRET COMMAND" HI ■ff.i';. - ajWB ■ *-, : S if? 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Insistence on ■ safety led to Firestone’s development of such patented and exclusive construction features gUj as the extra-strong Safti-Lock Gum-Dipped j j Cord Body with Safd-Sured Construction, the extra-mileage Duplex Gear-Grip Tread and extra-life Vitamic Rubber. After victory, Firestone will concentrate SB on making and selling an even wider variety of peace-time products which will provide even greater safety and economy in the world of tomorrow. It is toward that goal that Firestone, while producing for war, is also preparing for peace. Copyright 1944. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. BEST 4 IN RUBBER J Synthetic or Natural U THE FOREIGN JOURNAL [If PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. 21, NO. 8 WASHINGTON, D. C. AUGUST, 1944 How Promotions are Made ' By NATHANIEL P. DAVIS Chief of the Division of Foreign Service Personnel ON a hot steaming morning in the tropics, the motion to Class V” and stood back to watch the young consul arrived at the office to find a effect. “Class V, eh? I call that a demotion. pile of mail and one telegram. “More about that Should be Class IV at least.” blasted flour shipment,” he mused, tossing the tele¬ The bright young Third Secretary who never gram aside while he went through the mail. There smoked came home to lunch with a long, black, wasn’t much, and what there was was unimportant. vicious-looking cigar tilted at a rakish angle from Unable to put off the evil day any longer he opened the corner of his mouth. “For pity sake,” groaned the safe and got out his code hook. The dispute his wife, “what happened to you?” “Oh, nothing about a shipment of flour the consignee refused to much—your handsome husband is now Unclassified accept had dragged along for some days and had A, that’s all.” reached a complete impasse, despite daily telegrams Thus, and in many other ways, are promotions from the Department and the shippers and long received in the field. But how do they come about? patient conferences with the recalcitrant consignee, What makes a promotion and why? The process is the bank and the local health authorities. The con¬ long and seemingly cumbersome, carefully pre¬ sul, in no mood for further instructions, scowled scribed by law, involving many steps all of which as he opened the familiar gray book. The first code have their own good reasons for existence. The group read “You have been promoted to Class . .” framers of the Rogers Act of 1924 and the subse¬ The flour shipment was forgotten for the rest of quent Act of February 23, 1931, were determined the day. to build a promotion system which would be as The busy executive officer at a supervisory con¬ equitable and impartial as possible in any human sulate general was informed that Consul Blank was institution. They were animated by a desire to in the ante room. For several years, Consul Blank be fair to the officers of the Service, to safeguard (Class VI) had been complaining to all who would their individual interests, while at the same time pro¬ listen of his lack of promotion and the discrimina¬ tecting the Service against human frailty and ex¬ tion practiced against him by everyone from the traneous pressures. The structure they built has Secretary down. Less than an hour before a tele¬ stood the test of twenty years’ experience and has gram had been received announcing Consul Blank’s proved fundamentally sound. Some improvements, promotion. The executive officer welcomed him seemingly insignificant in themselves but all im¬ with a broad smile and a booming “Congratula¬ portant in their effect, have shown themselves to be tions!” Asked to explain he replied “On your pro¬ desirable, and steps are being taken to incorporate AUGUST, 1944 405 them in law and regulation.