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The Foreign Service Journal, August 1940 4 AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 17, NO. 8 JOURNAL AUGUST, 1940 i V'c HE hour is late. Cigarette- world by short-wave from Amer¬ T:ends are piled high in the ica—perfectly, at a touch of a ash trays; the glasses are empty, knob. The airways of Europe, and your guests silent... too, are brought into your home Yet no one wants to leave... more clearly than you ever hoped This scene For here, in your home, magic to hear them. wings of melody are adrift on No wonder that the RCA the summer night... reborn in Victor "Broadway” Model QU5, might be in all their living splendor through magnificent in its exquisite your RCA Victor "Broadway ” Sheraton cabinet, beautifully Model QU5! Here is all the hand-finished, is the center of YOUR home! storm anti glory and tenderness attention wherever discriminat¬ of the greatest music the world ing people gather. 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A. • A Service of the Radio Corporation of America CONTENTS AUGUST, 1940 For Prize Contest Notice See Page 473 THE "GOOD NEIGHBOR" LAND Cover Picture It's a great land — greater than you've Commercial Passenger Plane ever imagined — with scenic wonders See Page 475 that will leave you breathless — cities American Aviation Spreads Its Wings that stand proudly among the great urban By T. N. Sandijer 421 centers of the world—a life pulsing with Empire’s End—St. Helena forward-looking enthusiasm. Mingling By Sybil Sawyer Smith 424 the pioneer spirit of our own past with Washington’s New Airport the rich heritage of Latin culture, these Prepared by the Civil Aeronautics Authority 427 "good neighbor" lands to the South George Washington and the Sultan 430 challenge the attention of every well traveled person An Airport With a View 432 First American Consulate in Greenland, photo¬ graphs 436-37 Editors’ Column 438 *»»»«*** HAG News from the Department By Reginald P. Mitchell 439 ^00-TON LUXURY ««** News from the Field 442 S.s. ARGENTINA The Bookshelf J. Rives Childs, Review Editor 444 fro Y Foftni9h.w ;,^de l°ane\ro Skokloster By Butler Franklin 446 Night Watch By William D. Moreland 448 Foreign Service Changes 450 Service Glimpses 451 °rnS shipboard «c>WW« __ Can a Woman Be a Diplomat? By Herbert Wright 454 A Modern Arabian Night 458 38-DAY CRUISES for those whose Births 460 time is limited — to Barbados, Rio de Marriages 466 Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Trinidad. In Memoriam 475 Consult yourTravel Agent or Visitors 475 MOORE- Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Asso¬ MrCORMACK ciation, Department of State, Washington. D. C. Entered LINES as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, -5 BROADWAY, NEW YORK— D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. For fast, accurate and reliable telegraph service to Central and South America and to the West Indies, send your messages — via Clll dmerica mackavf ]0) Commercial Radio Cables Tostal Telegraph THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM Cablegrams “via All America” may be sent from any Postal Telegraph Office ALL AMERICA CABLES AND RADIO, INC. Main Office: 67 Broad Street, New York 418 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Allies’ Inn, The - . 473 American Export Lines 466 American Security and Trust Company 449 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba . 475 j>ren?ie|, Cathay Hotel—Shanghai — 475 * FOOD Chase National Bank _ . 470 PRODUCTS Fairfax Hotel 469 Federal Storage Company 471 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co._ — 420 General Motors Overseas Operations 476 W HEREVER you go through¬ Grace Line 463 out the world you can enjoy Gude Bros. Co — — 472 PREMIER FOOD PRODUCTS. International Telephone & Telegraph Co. 418 Let them follow you by availing Leggett, Francis H. & Co. — 419 yourself of Francis H. Leggett & Company’s PERSONALIZED Mayflower Hotel 456 Metropole Hotel—Shanghai __ 475 EXPORT SERVICE developed Moore-McCormack Lines 417 solely for the convenience of for¬ National City Bank . 457 eign service officers and their National Geographic Magazine 455 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co . 473 families. Pacific Fisheries, Assn, of 474 Pan-American Airways, Inc 470 Not only will you enjoy the finest Park Hotel—Shanghai _ — 475 of American foods, selected and Plaza Hotel — 472 prepared according to most rigid R. C. A. Mfg. Co., Inc II Cover Royal Typewriter Co., Inc 467 standards, but you will be assured of efficient service down to the mi¬ Sapp, Earle W„ C.L.U 473 Savoy-Plaza Hotel 453 nutest details of packing and ship¬ Schenley Products — — 459 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai 475 ping. Security Storage Company of Washington - — 449 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc 452 Many foreign service families have Southern Engraving Company 464 for years enjoyed the convenience Turner’s Diplomatic School 473 of this service. We invite your Tyner, Miss E. J. 472 correspondence with reference to it. Underwood Elliott Fisher Company —_ 460 United Fruit Company .... 469 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 474 U. S. Lines—... 453 Address: EXPORT DIVISION University of Nebraska Extension Division 469 Walcott-Taylor Co., Inc 468 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel — IV Cover Westinghouse Electric International Company Ill Cover Woodward & Lothrop 461 pRANCis ^|. LEGGETT & (OMPANY HUDSON RIVER, 27TH TO 28TII STREETS NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., U. S. A. Please mention THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL when writing to Advertisers. AUGUST, 1940 419 CHAMPION TIRE? WHAT THE CHAMPION OP THE SKYWAYS SAYS ABOUT THE CHAMPION OP THE HIGHWAYS i ACCIDENTS seldom occur in the air. Most of them happen on the ground. That’s why, to me, tire safety is so important. Last year, in winning the famous Thompson Trophy Air Race, for the third time, I used Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires on my plane for utmost safety. And for the same reason, I use Firestone Champion Tires exclusively on my automobiles. Last year, every national championship automobile race was won on Firestone Tires — the 500-mile Indianapolis Race — the AAA races at Milwaukee and Syracuse—the thrilling and dangerous Pike’s Peak Climb — and the 45 new speed and endurance marks which Ab Jenkins added to the 245 records he already held. The same patented construction features which made these victories possible are used in Firestone Champion Tires for your car. You get all this extra protection at no extra cost! For greater safety, order Firestone Champions on your new car — or put a set on your present car today! See Firestone Champion Tires made in Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building at the New York World’s Fair l COLONEL ROSCOE TURNER, Only 3-time winner of Thompson Trophy Race and holder of more air speed records than any other pilot in the world Copyright, 1940, The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. THE ONLY TIKES MADE THAT APE SAFETY-PROVED ON THE SPEED WA Y FOR YOUR PROTECTION ON THE HIGHWAY he Voice of F i rest one with Richard Crooks and Margaret Speaks, Monday evenings, over N. B. C. Red Netivork THE FOREIGN JOURNAL cfl PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN SERVICE ASSOCIATION -m VOL. 17, No. 8 WASHINGTON, D. C. AUGUST, 1940 American Aviation Spreads its Wings By T. N. SANDIFER" STATISTICS that get into headlines about the beginning in November, 1,292 carefully selected American aviation industry today are likely to youths will begin the standard Army flight training convey an impression that is only partly correct; course, where, up to last May when progressive ex¬ that it is exclusively a war-born activity, with all pansion started, only 300 men were beginning train¬ the limitations implied in such a term. ing each 6 weeks. Forty per cent of the lO^ billions of dollars ap¬ The Navy Bureau of Aeronautics has submitted propriated by Congress for expendi¬ to Congress an expansion plan pro¬ ture during the fiscal year which be¬ viding for training annually 9,600 gan this fuly 1, are earmarked for flying cadets, toward an objective national defense, and of this appor¬ total of 25,000 personnel for the tionment. a very considerable part Navy air service. This compares will go for aviation production for with a total of 1,169 trained naval the American Army and Navy, and pilots produced under the previ¬ for aviation activities necessitated ous program launched in luly, by the program called for by Presi¬ 1935. dent Roosevelt, 50,000 military and naval a ir- The Civil Aeronautics Authority is now turning craft, and a production capacity of 50,000 planes out 250 pilots per day, with proper certificates, annually. some lO.OOO having been trained and certificated The supplementary defense appropriations re¬ in the past year. This training system is being ex¬ cently passed appropriated for, or authorized 10,000 panded to give preliminary training to 45,000 new aircraft for the United States Navy, and 5,556 air¬ pilots by luly 1, 1941, and is correlated with Army planes for the United States Army.
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