The Foreign Service Journal, May 1934
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* 91* AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE * * JOURNAL * * 7 43 SJORIS. REDUCTION TO (2500 R % °oms) 25 OF SOLID CO MF DIPLOMATIC AND ORT CONSULAR SERVICE Under the pinnacled, cloud-draped roofs of this giant modern hotel, every inch of space is devoted to one aim — Iff your comfort! Such smooth, instantane¬ ous service, such charming rooms, such RATES AS LOW AS truly epicurean food as the Hotel New Yorker offers is hard to duplicate at $ low New Yorker rates. Make this trip A DAY Every room has both tub and shower, a far pleasanter one (thriftier as well) by full-length mirrors, circulating ice water, stopping here. Direct tunnel connection Servidor, bed and dresser lamps, radio. Note: the special rate reduction applies only to to Pennsylvania Station and subways. rooms on which the rate is $4 a day or more. HOTEL NEW YORKER 3 4TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Co., Inc ■ Ralph Hitz, President HOTELS BOOK-CADILLAC, DETROIT; NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI; VAN CLEVE, DAYTON JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL CONTENTS COVER PICTURE: PAVILION OF THE MURMUR¬ ING WATERS OF SPRING, HANGCHOW, CHINA (See also page 240) MACY’S How THE WORLD GETS THE WORLD’S NEWS By Henry L. Sweinhart 221 EXPORT DIVISION PROGRESS OF FOREIGN SERVICE LEGISLATION By Lowell C. Pinkerton 225 “I FLY THE ANDES”—By Anna M. O’NeilL 226 will SELECT, MEMORIES (Poem)-—J. E. H 229 A STREET SCENE IN FEZ Photograph by Thomas M. Wilson 230 PACK, and A BRITISH EXPORT TO CHINA By Jnlean Arnold 231 SHIP FOR YOU LA CEIBA, HONDURAS: A WIFE’S FIRST POST By Mrs. Nelson R. Park 232 all types of merchandise AN AFRICAN SAFARI: HUNTING RHINOCEROS By Harold Shantz 234 A UNIQUE CONSULAR DISTRICT: ST. STEPHEN, ★ A corps of 20 experienced N. B.—By Ernest W. Fitzpatrick 236 export shoppers at your ser- EDITORIAL NOTE 240 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT... 241 vice for mail and personal CARNIVAL AT BASEL, SWITZERLAND 243 orders. One of these shop- 244 NEWS FROM THE FIELD pers will shop with you in the FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 248 store, when you are in New BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES 250 IN MEMORIAM ! 251 York. Address all communica- AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE PROTECTIVE AS¬ tions to Export Division, 4th SOCIATION. Annual Report 252 Floor, 7th Avenue Building, THE DRAKE ESTATE—By Guy W. Ray 254 RULES OF FOREIGN SOCIETY 258 R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., N. Y. A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF—By Cyril Wynne 260 THE WASHINGTON ALPHABET: NEW DEAL "IT’S SMART TO BE THRIFTY" AGENCIES . 262 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CHANGES 266 BOOK REVIEW: STATELESSNESS By John J. Scanlon 266 ON THE COURSE OF EVENTS By Henry L. Deimel, Jr 269 MACY’S 34th Street and Broadway, New York BUDAPEST AND EDINBURGH By Thomas D. Bowman 274 The endeavor to sell its merchandise for at least six per cent less than it coidd if it did not sell exclusively TEN YEARS AGO 275 for cash is the keynote of Macy’s price policy. We are not infallible, but we do our best to live up to A SKELETON—By A. Nonymouse 276 this endeavor within the limits of N. R. A. LETTERS 280 217 REACHING ROUND the WORLD Postal Telegraph is the only American telegraph company that Telegraph ... cable... radio. One speeds offers a world-wide service of coordinated telegraph,cable and your message across the land. Another radio communications under a single management. Through the great International System of which Postal Telegraph is flashes it under the sea. The third wings a part, it reaches Europe, Asia, The Orient over Commercial Cables ; Central America, South America and the West Indies it through the air. over All America Cables ; and ships at sea via Mackay Radio. All three do the same work. All coopera¬ ting with one another...each carrying on THE where the others leave off. All of them part of the world-wide International System INTERNATIONAL of coordinated communication facilities. Postal Telegraph and its allied units in SYSTEM 'Postal Telegraph the International System offer you the speed...the accuracy...and the efficiency Commercial Clll Qmenca Cables Cables that result when cooperation is complete. Use Postal Telegraph...to EVERYWHERE. tUachag "Radio 218 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Express Company - 259 American Security and Trust Company 249 Bacardi, Santiago De Cuba — 271 Chesterfield Cigarettes - 220 Thoughts of Choiseul, Hotel de France et—Paris 271 Continental Hotel—Paris 271 Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest _ 271 WASHINGTON Federal Storage Company. 258 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Export Company 255 Grace, W. R., and Company 273 Gude Bros. Co 273 Harris and Ewing . 267 F OREIGN Service Hungaria, Hotel—Budapest 271 Officers Have A Particular Huntington Press_..__ 250 International System 218 Interest In The Many Lafayette Hotel 263 Activities of Government. Macy’s ■ 217 Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company 250 • When next you visit Martinique Hotel 274 The Capital, stay at the insti¬ Mayflower Hotel 219 tution where international per¬ Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 279 sonages reside and great events Middleton, Mrs. Lewis 267 occur. Munson Steamship Lines 274 National Geographic Magazine 261 Single Rooms from $4 New Yorker Hotel II Cover Pagani’s Restaurant—London 271 Double Rooms from $6 Palace-Ambassadeurs Hotel—Romo 271 Subject to a Diplomatic Pan-American Airways, Inc 267 Discount Park Lane Hotel—London 271 Plaza Hotel 251 Powhatan Hotel 250 Ritz Hotel—Mexico City 271 Rockefeller Center III Cover Savoy-Plaza Hotel _ . 251 Security Storage Company of Washington 249 Socony-Vacuum Corporation 265 Strasbourg, Restaurant Brasserie de—Marseilles 271 Terminus Hotel—Marseilles 271 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company 275 United Fruit Company__ 257 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 277 United States Lines— . 263 United States Steel Products Co 277 Von Zielinski, Carl M. I- 277 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover Willard Hotel 257 Woodward and Lothrop 253 To patronize our advertisers is to insure a bigger and better Journal for our Service. 219 THE FOREIGN S JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. XI, No. 5 WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY, 1934 IIow the World Gets the World’s News By HENRY L. SWEINHART ING-A-LING-A-LING! Ting-a-ling-a-ling! the other hand the State Department may have “Hello!” answers the correspondent of one received the information first, and be able, there¬ of the American press associations, as his telephone fore, promptly to confirm, correct or supplement in the press room at the State Department rings. news dispatches concerning which inquiry is made. “New York has a rumor that a revolution has Most likely, also, officials of the Department will broken out in Nurovia,” says the editor at the other he in position to give some “background” of in¬ end of the line. “See if the State Department has formation as to the circumstances surrounding the anything on it. Get any comment you can from particular event, so that the correspondents here officials there, and find out if they had heard any¬ can elaborate or explain the causes and describe thing of trouble brewing there. Inquire, too, as to the setting and personalities connected with the how many Americans are there, and what American happening. interests may be jeopardized.” From its numerous and far-flung representatives The wheels are started. Probably before the abroad the State Department continually is receiv¬ press reporter has hung up his ’phone, newspapers ing messages which contain “news.” If these are in the larger cities throughout the United States, not “confidential” and if they are of general public which by this time will have received a “bulletin” interest, they are given to the press. The State De¬ from the New York office of the press association, partment, therefore, while not created for that par¬ will be preparing to “go on the street” with a ticular purpose and while it does not function “streamer head” announcing the report of the Nu¬ with news-gathering and news-distribution primar¬ rovia revolution. ily in mind, nevertheless serves as a valuable ad¬ The reporter at the State Department inquires junct in keeping the people of the United States, as to what has been received there, and if no mes¬ as well as of other countries, promptly and re¬ sage has yet arrived regarding the reported dis¬ liably informed of what is happening in the world turbance, a cable of inquiry is probably sent at at large. At the same time the State Department, once, or a transoceanic telephone call put through through its Division of Current Information, tries to to the American Legation. keep its diplomatic representatives and its consular News gathering at the State Department in Wash¬ agents everywhere informed, through a press sum¬ ington reaches out into all parts of the world, and mary, which is mailed to them regularly twice a in these days of speedy communication via cable, week, of the world’s leading happenings of interest radio and telephone no event of importance can to them. Reports of the “press conferences” held happen in any corner of the globe without some in Washington with the Secretary of State daily, report of it quickly reaching Washington. Press also are mailed to the embassies and legations. advices, or in certain instances a report to some The members of the press “cover” the State De¬ large corporation from one of its agents abroad, partment every day in the year, Sundays and holi¬ may reach this country before the Government has days included. Not only the press of the United received any official message on the subject. On States but the press of the world, as well, is rep- 221 resented in this or if they receive group, because the a query from their leading foreign home office, they press associations get in touch by and some of the telephone with the more important Division of Cur¬ newspapers of the rent Information world maintain cor- which serves as a respondents SECRETARY lit LL AT A STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS “clearing house” in Washington, who CONFERENCE in the Department find the State De¬ Two Hours Later: The News Comes Off the Press for the press.