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The Foreign Service Journal, July 1940 9L AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 17, NO. 7 JOURNAL JULY, 1940 • Is ' * # & ■*? ;• ’ ; ■ - • . ■ • .•.' ' - m ■ : This is what we call FOREIGN SERVICE! • After checking up, frankly, we were surprised that our staff of interpreters master no fewer than 22 languages, including Esperanto. This is just another reason why the men and women in the Foreign Service experience no hesitancy about sending us their New York- bound friends and acquaintances. The Hotel New Yorker has long been Foreign Service Headquarters in New York because of its convenient location—handy to every¬ thing you want to see or do in this fascinating town of ours. Make it your home when you are again on leave in New York. This is the nearest large hotel to all the principal piers and is con¬ nected by private tunnel to Pennsylvania Station. Four popular priced restaurants. Ten minutes, ten cents to the New York World’s Fair Grounds. ★ 2500 Rooms from $3.50 Hotel NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Frank L. Andrews, President Leo A. Molony, Manager CONTENTS JULY, 1940 For Prize Contest Notice See Page 368 Cover Picture Yugoslav Musicians (See also page 408) Yugoslavia, Crossroad of the Balkans By Robert Coe 361 Vice Consul John R. Coryell, Creator of Nick Carter By Paul H. Manning 366 Press Comment 368 Letter 368 Law Enforcement in the Business World By Edward Dumbauld 369 Genera! Motors has a car to fit your purse Athens, poem 371 and purpose. Our overseas organization is A Glance at Protocol ready to show you the way to better motor¬ By Stanley Woodward 372 ing through world-wide sales and service of The Wild Men of Borneo By Monnett B. Davis 374 CHEVROLET Editors’ Column PONTIAC OLDSMOBILE Foreign Service Legislation 378 News from the Department BUICK LA SALLE By Reginald P. Mitchell 379 CADILLAC CMC TRUCKS News from the Field 382 The Bookshelf J. Rives Childs. Revieiv Editor 384 Dealers in principal cities throughout the Frederick Wollaston, First U. S. Consul at Genoa 386 world. Factory sales and service at The Secretary Receives the Foreign Service School By Niles W. Bond and Richard H. Hawkins 388 Adelaide Melbourne The Work of the F.S.O. Training School in the Alexandria Mexico City Departments of Agriculture and Commerce Antwerp Osaka By Donald W. Brown 389 Batavia Paris Foreign Service Changes 390 Bombay Perth Service Glimpses 391 Bienne Port Elizabeth Photograph of the Stall of the Shanghai Buenos Aires Sao Paulo Consulate General 392 Copenhagen Stockholm Births 395 Lima Southampton In Memoriam 395 Lisbon Sydney Visitors 415 Wellington Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Asso¬ GENERAL MOTORS OVERSEAS OPERATIONS ciation, Department of State, Washington, D. C. 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Please mention THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL when writing to Advertisers. 359 fire$tone CHAMPION TIRES FOR 21 CONSECUTIVE YEARS FIRESTONE TIRES HAVE 8EEN ON ALL THE WINNING CARS IN THE 500-MILE INDIANAPOLIS RACE £ FLASHING down the straight¬ aways at speeds as high as 160 miles an hour, Wilbur Shaw streaked to victory in this great race to become a three-time winner and the only man ever to win two consecutive victories at Indianapolis. 500 miles of grinding, pounding, torturing speed — and not one tire failed! Here’s proof of Safety, backed by performance! Patented construction features in the Firestone Tires used by these great drivers on the speedway are incorporated in the Firestone Champion Tires you buy for the highway. For greater safety, economy and dependability, equip your car with a set of these wonderful tires today. Set- Firestone Champion Tires made in Firestone Copyright, 1940, The Firestone Tire & Itubber Co. Factory and Exhibition Building at the New | York World’s Fair tssumw THE ONLY TIRES MADE THAT ARE SAFETY-PROVED ON THE SPEEDWAY FOR YOUR PROTECTION ON THE HIGHWAY Yugoslavia, Crossroad ol the Balkans BY ROBERT COE, Division of European Affairs YUGOSLAVIA is slightly smaller than the main¬ sections which had been ruled from Vienna or Bu¬ land of Italy, and has an estimated population dapest. of 15,000,000 persons. For the decade immediately A recognized hindrance to cooperation in the following the last European war, the country was Balkan peninsula is the topographical structure of known as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and the area. Jagged mountain ranges and narrow river Slovenes. The State erected in 1918 was composed valleys cut the fertile sections into separate units, of the former independent Kingdoms of Serbia and often inhabited by people who are of different race Montenegro, as well as of various components of or religion to those living in an adjacent section. the dissolved Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new The plains and open lands are chopped up by nature country was a political and religious mosaic, com¬ into areas considerably smaller than the larger bining under one government Serbs, Croats, Slo¬ plains and plateaus of such countries as France or venes, Montenegrins, Bosnians, Herzegovinians, and Germany. Yugoslavia is a typical example of this Macedonians. These units are representations of the sort of separate grouping; for instance, the Dalma¬ Slav race which constitutes 82 per cent of the popu¬ tian coast, a narrow littoral, is isolated from the lation. Of the principal groups, the Serbs have central area of the country by a high range of 6,500,000 million, the Croats just over 4,000,000. rugged mountains cut by a minimum of traversable and the Slovenes 1,000,000. In addition, there are passes, and South Serbia consists of a series of deep large minority groups: German, Hungarian, and valleys and peaks. Four fifths of the country is Albanian. Followers of the Orthodox religion hilly and mountainous. Most of the arable land is (Serbs and Montenegrins) represent 49 per cent of located in the basins of the Danube, Sava, and the total population; the Catholics (Croats, Slovenes, Morava Rivers, and there is a very fertile area north et cetera) number 38 per cent; and approximately of Belgrade and across the Danube in the Voivoi- 11 per cent of the population is Moslem. Further¬ dina, which is part of the great Hungarian plain more, there are linguistic differences, for, although and was acquired from Hungary through the peace they speak the same tongue, the Serbs and Monte¬ treaties. There are vast tracts of forest which sup¬ negrins write the Cyrillic script, whereas the Croats port an important timber industry. The economic and Slovenes use the Latin alphabet. Again, cul¬ structure of Yugoslavia rests on an agricultural tural associations have divided the country because base, and in fact 75 per cent of the population is en¬ those areas that had remained under Turkish dom¬ gaged in agriculture and forestry. Her mineral ination until the early nineteenth century naturally deposits are vast, but these have not as yet been had a basic outlook different from that of those more than partially developed. 361 In 1804 the first determined struggle of the Yugo¬ the people themselves, it was unsuccessful. The lack slavs (South Slavs) for freedom from the domina¬ of coordination and effectiveness of the parliamen¬ tion of the Ottoman Empire was commenced by tary government in Yugoslavia finally induced the the Serbs, ending in 1848 in the eventual recog¬ King to abandon the system.
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