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The Foreign Service Journal, November 1939 g/« AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE »OL,»«„ JOURNAL NOVEMBER, 1939 CONTENTS TODAY IT’S STILL (NOVEMBER, 1939) Cover Picture Danzig-East Prussia Bridge (See also page 634) The American Consul in the Alexandria Bom¬ The First bardment of 1882 By Pierre Crabites 589 Poland and Partition 593 We Stopped at Pitcairn Island By Foster H. Kreis 596 Service Of Selected Questions from the Third General For¬ eign Service Examination of 1939 597 Cyril Wynne 599 Unrest Its Kind! By Jane Wilson 690 Canoitas By Robert G. McGregor, Jr 602 Editors' Column Cyril Wynne 604 News from the Department By Reginald P. Mitchell 605 The first complete lubrica¬ News from the Field 608 tion service ever offered is preferred today in leading The Bookshelf plants of more than 100 J. Rives Childs, Review Editor 610 industries because it's Excerpts from Ambassador Daniel’s Address 612 BACKED BY 72 YEARS OF LUBRICATION EXPERIENCE Foreign Service Association Elections 612 Program of the F.S.O. Training School 615 THE MAKERS of Gargoyle Industrial Foreign Service Changes 616 Lubricants were the first to recognize Service Glimpses 617 that “Correct Lubrication” meant more Answers to 1939 F. S. Examination Questions 623 than just good oil. the first to establish a American Legation, Guatemala City 630 special engineering staff to work with plant Press Comment 631 men on individual problems... to help them apply oils in the right way! La China Poblana By Betsy Lee E is tetter 632 Today, Socony-Vacuum’s Engineering Serv¬ Trade Agreement Notes ice is by far the most popular in the oil industry! By Edward Mullins 633 It’s popular because it’s practical! Based Letter 634 on Socony-Vacuum’s 72 years’ experience, Cover Picture 634 it has proved time and time again that it helps cut costs and increase plant efficiency. Marriages 635 Births 635 In Memoriam 635 Visitors 640 Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. S0C0NY-VACUUM OIL CO.,Inc. 585 DIPLOMACY SUGGESTS GOOD TASTE DICTATES ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ciere's a time-honored American tradition that’s always at home abroad . OLD SCHENLEY American Rye and Bourbon Whis¬ kies. Made of premium American grains .. selected especially for Americans living in foreign countries . OLD SCHENLEY Rye and Bourbon have been famous for their light-bodied flavor since the 1880’s. Diplomatic hosts distinguish their foreign “service” by serving OLD SCHENLEY American Whiskies. They’re Good Taste ... in any language. o OLD OCHENLEY The whiskey advertised here¬ AMERICAN RYE OR BOURBON WHISKEY with is intended only for SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, NEW YORK, N. Y. export distribution in bond. — 586 JHE /j^ME RICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL INDEX FOR ADVERTISERS Allies’ Inn 635 American Export Lines 587 American Security and Trust Company — 513 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba 639 Brewood (Engravers) - 636 Bowling Green Storage & Van Co. 619 Calvert School 640 Campbell Company, The W. D. 636 Canoga Farms — 635 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai 639 Chase National Bank 622 Chrysler Corporation 588 Continental Hotel—Paris 639 Crillon Hotel—Paris - 639 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. II COVER France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris — 639 General Motors Corporation —III COVER George V, Hotel Paris. 639 Grace Line 623 Gude Bros. Co 624 Harris & Ewing 629 Hay-Adams House 622 International Telephone & Telegraph Co - 627 Kressmann & Co., Ed.—Bordeaux 639 Manhattan Storage & Warehouse Co. 618 Mayflower Hotel 615 Metropole Hotel—Shanghai 639 Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. 629 National City Bank _ 637 National Geographic Magazine 621 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. .. 624 Pagani’s Restaurant—London ... ... .. 639 Palazzo-Ambasciatori Hotel - -Rome . 639 Pan-American Airways, Inc 624 Park Hotel Shanghai 639 Plaza Hotel .... 636 Sapp, Earle Vi'.. C.L.U — _ 624 Savoy-Plaza Hotel 618 Schenley Products _ 586 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai 639 Security Storage Company of Washington 613 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. - 585 Turner’s Diplomatic School 640 Tyner, Miss E. J 640 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company 625 United Fruit Company — 614 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company — 614 United States Lines 638 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV COVER Walton School, The _ — 640 Woodward & Lothrop 633 587 THREE NEW STREAMLINERS FOR 1940 MOTORING CHRYSLER CORPORATION, EXPORT DIVISION, . DETROIT, MICHIGAN THE FOREIGN JOURNAL cR PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. 16, No. 11 WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER, 1939 Tlie American Consul in the Alexandria Ilonihardinent of 1RR2 By PIERRE CRABITES From Chapter XXIII of his book “Americans in the Egyptian Army,” London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938. Abridged for publication in THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, with the kind permis¬ sion of the author, by Vice Consul Daniel Gaudin, Jr., Alexandria. EGYPT was in that po¬ sular post would gild the litical frame of mind trade-mark that wealth had which leads to mischief. converted into an escutch¬ Rioting broke out in Alex¬ eon. He considered that he andria on June 11, 1882. had done his duty to the The next day, the Con¬ United States in advising sular Corps of Alexandria Americans that there was placarded the walls of that no danger. He felt that he city with an appeal to for¬ should also do his duty to eigners to keep the peace, himself by getting out of not to carry arms, to re¬ the country. main at home, and to avoid Lieut. - Col. Charles combats and quarrels. It Chaille-Long of Maryland, began with an assurance a veteran of the Union Ar¬ that the Consuls were in my and of the Egyptian agreement with the local Army', was then practicin'1 authorities regarding ways law before the Mixed and means of maintaining Courts of Egypt. He heard lawr and order. It bore the of the impending departure signature of the representa¬ of this consular dignitary. tives of fifteen Powers, in¬ The army officer and in¬ cluding the United States. trepid African explorer The American Consul who had become a barrister was not a citizen of the looked up the representa¬ United States. He was a tive of Washington and Levantine w'ho had ob¬ said to him: “If you leave, tained a high-sounding title it will he a base desertion from a European potentate, of your post.” He received hut who thought that a con- Judge Pierre Crabites the following reply: “My 589 life and the lives of my family are more to me than tives, with the single exception of the American, honor. The Consulate besides costs me money. I with their staff and archives went on board their owe the United States nothing, and I am off.”1 respective vessels of war. The United States Con¬ The Greek in charge of the Cairo American Con¬ sulate alone remained open. The evening train sulate came to the rescue. He at once appointed brought from Cairo perhaps 200 refugees of all Colonel Chaille-Long Consular Agent of the United nationalities. They sought the protection of the States at Alexandria and thus the discoverer of American flag and were put on board the United Lake Ibrahim was in charge there when the British States warships. fleet opened fire on the forts of that port on the Soon afterwards the American Admiral sent an morning of July 11, 1882. officer with a strong guard to request the Acting By the end of June, twenty-six warships, repre¬ Consul to close his office without further delay and senting the navies of Great Britain, France, Ger¬ to go on board. As soon as Chaille-Long reached many, Italy, Austria, Russia, Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Quinnebaug, she and her sister ships moved and the United States lay off the port of Alexandria. slowly out of port to take their position beyond Large numbers of refugees were embarked. In con¬ the line of fire. At the same time the British fleet formity with his instructions, the British Admiral prepared for action. sent an ultimatum to the Egyptian military com¬ The Alexandra opened fire at 7 a. m. on July 11. mander that a The bombard¬ bombardment ment ceased at would com¬ 5 p. m. but a mence at sun- few rounds rise on the were fired on morning of the the morning eleventh unless of the 12th. his batteries Shortly after were previous¬ th is a white ly surrendered flag from the for the pur¬ forts a n - pose of dis¬ nounced their arming. surrender. But On July 9 to the surprise the British of the com¬ Consul called manders of the in person on various squad¬ the Acting rons, anxious American Courtesy Gordon P. Mcrriain to disembark Consul and in¬ Thu Harbor al Alexandria their refugees, formed him the British Ad¬ that the British Government expressed the desire miral manifested no intention of landing troops to that all citizens of the United States should be em¬ occupy the city. barked within the next twenty-four hours. The During the night of the 12th, dense columns of American Admiral wrote him “to notify all persons smoke disclosed the fact that Alexandria was in who are desirous of and entitled to obtain the pro¬ flames at several points. There is not a scintilla of tection of the American flag to repair on board the ship under my command.” credible evidence to prove that the fire had been The American missionaries, their families and caused by British shells. They had been centered servants, perhaps fifty persons, were all who were upon the forts. They had not been fired at the city.
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