The Foreign Service Journal, October 1960
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GIVE HER A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL.*** ***You can save time, money and letter-writing by using the card insert in this issue. 2 The Foreign Service Journal is the professional journal of the American For¬ eign Service and is published by the American Foreign Service Association, a non¬ profit private organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION CONTENTS OCTOBER, 1960 G. FREDERICK REINHARDT, President Volume 37, Number 10 J. GRAHAM PARSONS, Vice President DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager a e BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary P S BOARD OF DIRECTORS gO “CLEAR IT WITH SIDNEY,” ET ALIBI THOMAS S. ESTES, Chairman by Jack Perry WILLIAM L. BLUE, Vice Chairman STEPHEN WINSHIP, Secretary-Treasurer MELISSA F. WELLS, Ass’t. Secretary-Treasurer 23 FINANCIAL SURVIVAL IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE CHARLES W. ADAIR, JR. by John C, An slant! WALDEMAR J. GALLMAN SAMUEL R. GAMMON MAX V. KREBS 28 KAYAKS ON THE DRINA DAVID H. MCCABE by Glenn E, Schweitzer JOHN H. STUTESMAN, JR. 32 THE FIRST JAPANESE EMBASSY The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an un¬ official and voluntary association of the members, active by Robert W, Rinden and retired, of The Foreign Service of the United States and the Department of State. The Association was formed in order to foster an esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united ef¬ 35 RECOMMENDED READING forts of its members for the improvement of the Service. by Martin F. Herz 37 FOREIGN SERVICE READING LIST FOR 1960 JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD JAMES K. PENFIELD, Chairman 43 MOURN THE GOOD MAN HENRY C. RAMSEY, Vice Chairman by Guy Epling JAMES CARSON PHILIP H. CHADBOURN, JII. RICHARD T. DAVIES 55 BRASILIA E REALIDADE—A CAPITAL MOVES RICHARD FUNKHOUSER H. FREEMAN MATTHEWS, JR. by Philip Paine JAMES F. O’CONNOR, JR. GRAHAM MARTIN GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor departments DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager 4 SELECTION BOARDS JANE D. FISHEURNE, Editorial and Adv. Asst. WINIFRED B. TURNER, Circulation Manager 11 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart The Editorial Board of the FOREIGN 27 EDITORIAL PAGE SERVICE JOURNAL will consider all articles submitted. If accepted, the author will be paid one cent a word at time of publication. Photo¬ 20 WASHINGTON LETTER graphs accompanying articles will, if accepted, by Gwen Barrows be purchased at one dollar each. Five dollar* is paid for cover and full page pictures. Nega¬ tives and color transparencies are not accepta¬ ble. Photos should be black and white glossies, measuring approximately 7x9 inches, and should be mailed between extra heavy card¬ board. Photos are not returned. COVER PHOTO and at left Copyright, 1960, by the American Foreign Service Association. The FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL is issued by Lynn Moffly monthly at the rate of $4.00 a year, 50 cents a copy, by the American Foreign Service Association, Suite Basque Fishermen at 301, 1742 “G” Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Collioure, France Printed in U.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com¬ pany, Baltimore. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS AWARD Alban Towers 40 GEORGE T. COLEMAN, FSS-retired, was made an honorary citizen of American Security and Trust Company 25 the city of Belem, Brazil, at a special honors ceremony held in Barclay, The 56 the Legislative Chambers of the City Council on July 29. Mr. Beam, James B., Distilling Company 8 Coleman, who had served as Consul there for ten years, was the Bell, W., and Company 6 only non-Brazilian to receive this award. Berens, F. W., Insurance Service, Inc. 36 Bookmaker, The 36 BIRTHS Bowling Green Storage and Van Company 11 Brewood, Engravers 46 ARMSTRONG. A son, Ian Coburn, born to Mr. and Mrs. Willis Calvert School, The 54 Coburn Armstrong, August 18, in Ottawa. Mrs. Armstrong is the former FSO M. Louise Schaffner. Cardinal Export Corporation 12 BLAKE. Twin daughters, Rebecca Eva and Mary Minor, born to Mr. Chase Manhattan Bank, The 49 and Mrs. Melville E. Blake, Jr., July 31, in Washington. Circle Florists 46 BREMENT. A son, Gabriel, born to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Brement, Container Transport International, Inc. 40 July 26, in Hong Kong. deSibour, J. Blaise, and Company 56 HEYNIGER. A daughter, Kristen Anne, born to Mr. and Mrs. Lambert DACOR 48 Heyniger, April 3, in Amman, Jordan. Fidelity Storage Company III Cover POLSTEIN. A son, David Michael, born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Firestone Tire and Rubber Company 9 Polstein, June 10, in Tabriz, Iran. First National City Bank of New York 10 WHITE. A daughter, Mary Louise, born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Francis Scott Key Apartment Hotel 48 White, July 12, in Ottawa. General Electronics Incorporated 14 General Motors Corporation 34 Grace Line 50 MARRIAGE Greenbelt Pharmacy 48 SIMPSON—MAURIN. Margaret Lanniee Simpson, daughter of FSO Hilltop House, Incorporated 46 and Mrs. R. Smith Simpson, and Dr. Mario Leon Maurin, son of Intercontinental Hotels Corporation 7 Mr. and Mrs. Joaquim Maurin of New York, were married at Kellogg, The M. W. Company 5 the home of the bride’s parents in Annandale, Va., on August 31. Marriott Motor Hotels, Incorporated 36 Mayflower Hotel 14 McLachlen Banking Corporation 41 DEATHS Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 47 MOLLER. Carl W. Mpller, FSLE-retired, died at his summer home in Miller, R. William, Jr. : 46 Gilleleje, Denmark. Mr. Mpller joined the staff of the American Mitchum Company, The 10 Legation in Copenhagen in 1914 and, with the exception of ten National American Bank of New Orleans 13 years in private business, served for thirty-five years until his re¬ National Distillers Products Company 17 tirement in 1959. He served under eleven Ministers and three Ambassadors. Park Central Hotel 54 TAYLOR. Henry N. Taylor, son of Ambassador to Switzerland and Paxton Van Lines 53 Mrs. Henry J. Taylor, was fatally shot while covering events in Radin, Rhea—Realtor 48 the Congo, September 4, as a reporter for the Scripps-Howard Schenley Industries—Overseas II Cover newspapers. Seagram Distillers Corporation 18 UNDERWOOD. Pierson Underwood died in South Salem, New York, on Security Storage Company 25 July 30. From 1944 to 1947 Mr. Underwood was a consultant Service Investment Corporation 16 to the Liberated Areas Division of the State Department and a special attache to the American Embassy in Poland. Simmons Properties r 54 Smith’s Transfer and Storage Company 51 State Department Federal Credit Union 49 SELECTION BOARDS CONVENE Swartz, Walter H., Company 1 Terry, Louise M., Realtor 48 The Fourteenth Selection Boards convened on September United Services Automobile Association 19 7, to retiiew the records of FSO’s for promotion and selection United Services Officers' Insurance Association 6 out. United States Lines 12 Board A (For Class 1) Waldorf-Astoria, The IV Cover FSO Members Will is ton, J. R., & Beane ; 54 HONORABLE EDWARD J. SPARKS, Chairman Zenith Radio Corporation 15 FSO-Career Minister, Ambassador to Venezuela. HONORABLE VINTON CHAPIN FSO-Career Minister, recently Ambassador to Luxembourg. PHOTO AND ART CREDITS FOR OCTOBER HONORABLE C. BURKE ELBRICK Lynn Moffly, the cover, and p. 3, Basque Fisherman at Col- FSO-Career Minister, Ambassador to Portugal lioure, France. Mrs. Moffly is the wife of Charles K. Moffly, Consul at Turin. HONORABLE WILLIAM J. SEBALD FSO-Career Minister, Ambassador to Australia. Edward L. Fischer, illustrations, pp. 20, 43 Bill Ragain, cartoons, pp. 24, 35 Public Member Yoichi Okamoto, School Children at Graz, p. 26 GRANT L. THRALL The Tara Bridge, Courtesy of the Yugoslav Embassy, p. 28 Chairman and Executive Vice President of Ballagh and Glenn E. Schweitzer, photo, p. 29 Thrall, Philadelphia. L’lllustration, “M. Grahame White arrivant,” p. 30 Encyclopedia Britannica, “Fowls of a Feather,” p. 31 Observer , Jean Fabert-Himbert, courtesy of The Little Studio, p. 31 WILLIAM C. 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