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The Foreign Service Journal, November 1967 * fa Lta Sill wn 3 d?f5Bj J * -.' a : 'v Sjf jjT[| ’ vOvi'* -* -f Jr JJffi |Rr 1 ^ ---^**-1^ II— . < ■ && jVfcj KK Jggjj} (ft £■<>.?; ;•• - -W. ***/. 1 J9 u| KP" if?£Jfe£S^dS»4B^Bfc ^£^H»SaaB&rJS&S F ^fEW - the American Foreign Service Association's new building at 2101 E Street, N.W, As you will observe, it is across the street from the Department of State, ,WHITEC^ HOUSE tX UVENUlv .VIRGINIA. FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION The Foreign Service JOURNAL is the professional Journal of the American AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION Foreign Service and is published by the American Foreign Service Association, FOY D. KOHLER, President a non-profit private organization. Material appearing herein represents the PHILIP HABIB, First Vice President opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the HARRY K. LENNON, Second Vice President Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for GARDNER E. PALMER, General Manager International Development or the Foreign Service as a whole. JANE K. STELLE, Executive Secretary CLARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant JEAN M. CHISHOLM, Personal Purchases BOARD OF DIRECTORS November, 1967 Vol. 44, No. 11 LANNON WALKER, Chairman contents THEODORE L. ELIOT, JR., Vice Chairman ROBERT T. CURRAN, Secretary-Treasurer page ROBERT BLACKBURN, Asst. Secretary-Treasurer LARRY C. WILLIAMSON CHARLES E. RUSHING 19 FUDGEWATCHING: A REPORTER VIEWS THE STATE DEPARTMENT L. DEAN BROWN by David Willis THOMAS W. MCELHINEY CHARLES W. BRAY ADRIAN A. BASORA 22 APPRECIATION OF A DIPLOMAT MICHAEL MICHAUD by Robert F. Corrigan 26 THE DISENFRANCHISED by Jean Collins JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD 28 OPERATION TORCH REED HARRIS, Vice Chairman by Robert D. Murphy Jo W. SAXE ROGER C. BREWIN LEWIS MACFARLANE 34 AFSA: THE DAYS TO COME S. I. NADLER by Foy Kohler MORRIS DRAPER DANIEL NEWBERRY 38 AFSA: RESULTS OF THE BIENNIAL ELECTION JOURNAL 42 WHERE RETIRED FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS RETIRE LOREN CARROLL, Editor by Gardner Richardson SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Executive Editor MARGARET B. CATON, Circulation MCIVER ART & PUBLICATIONS INC. OTHER FEATURES: Among Our Contributors, page 4; ARA: Careers Art Direction in Isolation, by Semper Fidelis, page 10; Poems, by Howard R. Simpson, page 49; Some Young Old Friends, by Henry B. Day, page 54; Rating the Wife and the Secretary, page 57. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES SASMOR AND GUCK, INC., 156 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10010 (212) 242-3714 departments ALBERT D. SHONK CO., 681 Market St., San Fran¬ cisco, Calif. 94105 (415) 392-7144 CHARLES B. STEARNS, JR., 35 E. Wacker Dr., Chi¬ 4 AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS cago, Illinois 60601 (312) ANdover 3-2241 12 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIA¬ by Henry B. Day TION is composed of active and retired personnel who are or have been serving at home or abroad under the authority of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as 32 WASHINGTON LETTER amended. It groups together people who have a com¬ mon responsibility for the implementauon of foreign by Loren Carroll policy. It seeks to encourage the development of a career service of maximum effectiveness, and to ad¬ vance the welfare of its members. 37 EDITORIALS: Prospectus for the Future The dues for Active and Associate Members are Foreign Service Day either $15 or $12: For FSOs in Class V and above the rate is $15 and is the same for FSRs, Staff officers and Civil Service personnel in corresponding grades. For Active Members in lower grades the dues are $12. 44 THE BOOKSHELF The annual dues for retired members and others who are not Active Members are $12. Each membership includes a subscription to the FOREIGN SERVICE 52 COOK’S TOUR JOURNAL. by Helen K. Behrens For subscriptions to the JOURNAL, one year (12^ is¬ sues), $6.00; two years, $10.00. For subscriptions going ■broad, except Canada, add $1.00 annually for over¬ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR seas postage. 59 Ambassadorial Nominations Marriages L. DEAN BROWN, to Senegal and the Gambia BOND-DAANE. Nancy Bond, daughter of FSO and Mrs. Niles HUGH H. SMYTHE, to Malta W. Bond, was married to Bruce Daane, on September 16, at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Washing¬ HARRISON M. SYMMES, to the Hashemite Kingdom of ton. Mr. Bond is Minister Consul General in Sao Paulo. Jordan WALTER N. TOBRINER, to Jamaica Births SMITH. A son, Clint Norman, born to FSO and Mrs. Clint E. Smith, on September 18, in Madrid. PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATIONS FOR NOVEMBER Deaths BARRY. John R. Barry, FSSO-retired, died on September 20, in Washington. Mr. Barry was appointed clerk in the Con¬ sulate General in Montreal in 1918 and Foreign Service Staff officer in 1923. He retired in 1946. Mr. Barry was the author of JOURNAL articles about Montreal in April 1936 and January 1946. He is survived by his wife and son, Rexford G. Barry, both of 3636-16th St., N.W., and his niece, FSO Eileen Donovan. BERGER. Margaret Fowler Berger, wife of Samuel D. Berger, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, died on October 14, in Washington. Mrs. Berger worked as an economist for the Board of Economic Welfare during World War II and served on the United Nations Secretariat staff of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs. She also served as staff economist for the International Materials Conference. Mrs. Berger ac¬ Maria d’Agostino Booth, our cover artist, is shown with Lie. companied her husband during tours in London, Tokyo, Manlio Fabio Tapia Camacho (Mayor of Veracruz) as he Athens, Wellington and, from 1961-1964, as Ambassador opens the exhibit of Mrs. Booth’s paintings at the Ateneo to Korea. In 1964 she was made an honorary citizen of Veracruzano in May. Proceeds from the sale of paintings the Special City of Seoul for her work with Korean or¬ went to the children’s library being formed by the local Pan- phans. She is survived by Ambassador Berger of 2911- American Roundtable. 33rd PI., N.W. and two sisters, Lorraine Edmonds and Dixie Olson of Kansas City, Kansas. Contributions in memory of Mrs. Berger may be made to the American Foreign Service Association Scholarship Fund. Maria d’Agostino Booth, wife of FSO Richard T. Booth, CONOVER. Mrs. Hannah Fanning Conover, widow of Carroll painting, “Tlacotalpan,” cover. TIacotalpan is a small, Conover, FSSO, died on September 29, in Lubec, Maine. pleasant and picturesque old town on the Papaloapan river Mr. Conover’s sister, Miss Helen Conover, lives at 2928 P in central Veracruz, where the streets are paved with grass. Street, N.W. H. Kleiss, cartoon, page 31. DAYMONT. Lawrence James Daymont, FSSO-retired, died on S. I. Nadler, USIA, “Life and Love in the Foreign Service,” September 24, in Washington. Mr. Daymont entered the Foreign Service in 1932, after serving in the Army and page 33. Still photograph from “The Firebrand” with Con¬ with the War Department overseas. He served at Paris, stance Bennett and Frederic March. Vichy, Bern and as consul at London before retiring in Howard R. Simpson, USIA, drawings and poems, page 49. 1955. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Astri Daymont of 4512 N. 19th Street, Arlington, Virginia, and two sons, Penny Parr, wife of Grant Parr, USIA, cartoon, page 58. Henry Peter and Peter, and four grandchildren. C. L. Deasy, cartoon, page 60. DEVAULT. Charles L. DeVault, FSO-retired, died in Pacific Grove, California on September 3. Mr. DeVault entered the Foreign Service in 1918 and served at Paris, London, Taihoku, Tokyo, Paris and Mexico City. He retired in 1939 The Foreign Service JOURNAL welcomes contributions and will pay for accepted material on publication. Photos should be black but was called back after Pearl Harbor to interpret foreign and white glossies and should be protected by cardboard. Color radio news. He is survived by his wife, Blanche DeVault, of transparencies (4 x 5) may be submitted for possible cover use. Canterbury Woods, Apt. G-101, Pacific Grove, California. Please include full name and address on all material submitted GAMON. John A. Gamon, FSO-retired, died on September 20, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope if return is desired. in Berkeley, California. He entered the Foreign Service in The JOURNAL also welcomes letters to the editor. Pseudonyms 1914 and served at Puerto Cortes, Corinto, Guaymas, may be used only if the original letter includes the writer’s correct Acapulco, Cobh, London and Marseille, before his retire¬ name. All letters are subject to condensation. ment in 1935. Mr. Gamon retired to Berkeley, California. Address material to: Foreign Service Journal, 2101 E St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20037. He is survived by his widow of that city and a son, David Gamon, FSO, assigned to NEA in the Department. © American Foreign Service Association, 1967. The Foreign Serv¬ MORRISON. Miss Melba Morrison, FSSO, died on September ice Journal is published monthly, by the American Foreign Service Association, 2101 E St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20037. 9, in Silver Spring. Miss Morrison’s last post was Amman. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Printed by Monu¬ She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Virginia Morrison, mental Printing Co., Baltimore. 104 Avondale Avenue, Dade City, Florida. 2 FOREIGN SERVICE .JOURNAL, November, 1967 National Distillers performs a foreign service ...8 times over In addition to these outstanding spirits, we carry a complete list of imported wines. For your price list please write to the Ex¬ port Division, National Distillers Products Co., 99 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016. wimmimmtimmmmmmmmmmmmmimmm OLD GRAND-DAD. 010 CROW, OLD TAYLOR. 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