The Foreign Service Journal, January 1946
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gL AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 23, NO. 1 JOURNAL JANUARY, 1946 POPOCATEPETL, MEXICO ' THANK YOU TOR YOUR PATRONAGE! The popularity of American products in many world markets may at least in part be attributed to the wholehearted cooperation of America’s diplomatic and consular representatives abroad. This reflects not only conscious effort on their part, but the great power of their example. Schenley appreciates your patronage of its products—not merely because your prestige impresses our foreign prospects and customers and means better business for us, but also because we are genuinely proud to serve the distinguished group of men and women to which you belong. We would like to call your particular attention to Schenley Reserve —a true American whiskey of the finest quality. Schenley International Corporation Empire State Building • New York City AMERICA’S FINEST WHISKEY... CONTENTS AMERICAN EASTERN JANUARY, 1946 TRADING & SHIPPING C0.,S.A.E. Cover Picture: Popocatepetl, Mexico. Photo by M. Reta Alexandria and Suez (Egypt) Alduncin, Club Citlaltepetl de Mexico. Branches or Agents in: Letters to the Editors 5 Alexandria, Egypt Jaffa, Palestine Cairo, Egypt Jerusalem, Palestine Port Said, Egypt Haifa, Palestine Proposed Policy Making Facilities for the De¬ 7 Suez, Egypt Beirut, Lebanon partment of State Port Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Iskanderon, Turkey By Milton Patterson Thompson Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Damascus, Syria Djibouti, French Somaliland Ankara, Turkey British Civil Service Selection Board 11 Addis Abeba, Ethiopia Izmir, Turkey Jedda, Arabia Istanbul, Turkey Nicosia, Cyprus Valetta, Malta The Bermuda Telecommunications Conference.. 12 By Robert E. Read Foreign Service Ethics 14 AMERICAN IRAQI SHIPPING CO., LTD. By George V. Allen (Only American-Owned Shipping Firm in Persian Gulf) The Bonin Islands 18 By Commander Richard C. Drum Hunt Basrah and Baghdad (Iraq) Press Comment 19 Branches or Agents in: Vice Consul Barry' Sets a Record. 21 Baghdad, Iraq Bandar Abbai, Iran Basrah, Iraq Teharan, Iran Khorramshahr, Iran Bahrain, Bahrain Islands Return to Tokyo 22 Bandar Shahpour, Iran RasTannurah, Saudi Arabia Letters from. John K. Emmerson Abadan, Iran Kowait, Arabia Buthira, Iran Mosul, Iraq Editors’ Column 24 In Memoriam 27 News from the Field 28 The Bookshelf 30 Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor Marriages 31 Births 31 Dogs Perform Valuable Service in Swiss Army.. 32 Retired Foreign Service Officers 34 Service Glimpses 35 New York Representatives Visitors 66 AMERICAN EASTERN CORP. Naar Eait 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. 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In my own case, for instance, I was so successful in concealing one of my chief faults, a dogmatic manner of speech, that Mr. Shaw called me in after the exam¬ ination to tell me that the board felt that I was too vague and indefinite. Other examples are numer¬ ous. In any case, a man’s behavior before a board of officials will give no clue as to his behavior to¬ wards his subordinates, visa applicants, foreign of¬ ficials. visiting Congressmen and all the other varie¬ ties of humanity which are the daily lot of the Foreign Service Officer abroad. Yet apparently no adequate alternative to the oral examination was available. To weed out a greater proportion of the men during the probationary pe¬ riod would place too much reliance on the variable ■ Favorite meeting place of For¬ judgments of individual chiefs of mission. A com¬ eign Service men in the Nation’s mon standard is necessary and might be found in a Foreign Service Academy such as has often been Capital. Four blocks from the De¬ proposed, But such an academy would tend to turn out officers all cut in the same pattern and unable partment of State. Convenient to to cope perhaps with novel or unusual situations. all points of interest in Washing¬ A new solution to the problem of personality judgments has recently been developed, however, It ton. Exclusive Men's Bar. Famous is as vet little known to the general public, since it food. Coffee Shop. Gay Cocktail was worked out during the war by the British and German intelligence services and by the Office of Lounge. Air Conditioned in the Strategic Services. All three of these agencies, stimulated by the need of making sure how men summer. would react in difficult and dangerous situations, took their problem to trained psychologists and worked out what might be called the “country- house” method. 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