The Foreign Service Journal, October 1957
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OCTOBER 1957 IMPORTERS . * r C oANAI O.F.C.) iAN wm s KY ONLY O.F.C. IS GUARANTEED OVER 6 YEARS OLD! \BLKXD Among Canadian whiskies, only O.F.C tells you Its exact age by placing a Certificate of Age on every bottle. Every drop has the same unchanging taste and quality. Yet O F.C. costs no more than other Canadian whiskies. Any bottle that says .**'■*! ^—^ciSchenfciji^- unan IBP , .f? *=5chenl PQ, CANAf ~/0 soys 'm/mcc SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP., NEW YORK, N Y. all the news that’s fit to REprint \ ABOUT THE WALTER H. SWARTZ CO.-FROM * SUN NEVER SETS ON SUIT‘EMPIRE’ Qork Sim 3 Swartz Brothers Outfit Thrifty Envoys—Liberia Demands a Cutaway' By BESS FURMAN Special to The New York Times One cutaway with striped trousers, gone globe-trotting so they can talk to $125.. almost any Ambassador about what BALTIMORE, June 29 — One of a One cocktail coat—a short cutaway, they saw in his country. multitude of gag-signs enlivening the $75. Washington embassies containing clothing factory of the three brothers One top coat, $75. One overcoat, $90. Swartz reads: “Blessed Are They Who old customers of the Swartz’s include “Roughly $800 for the outfit for a the Austrian, Australian, British, Go Around in Circles For They Shall normal three-year tour of duty at Become Big Wheels.” Spanish, Turkish, Egyptian, Indian, regular prices,” said Mr. Swartz. “We but not Iron Curtain nations. And so it turned out for the broth¬ supply it to him for about $450. And ers after they started going around in we keep the sizes on file so the diplo¬ Shades of Politics diplomatic circles and set up a separate mats can write us for anything they branch “to serve the foreign service” didn’t get in the first place,” he added. “Ed is a liberal Democrat, a great in the firm they inherited from their one for social advances and labor father. Suit a Day for Burma privileges and a higher standard of Now their label reads: “The Sun For the Burma post, he said, there living for our 200 employes. Bill is a Never Sets on SSS Suits.” would be proportionate saving. First, Democrat, not aggressive in politics. “And whatever may have happened there would be six wash-and-wear suits, I’m a strict Republican, almost reac¬ to the sun and British possessions,” one for each business day. tionary in everything I do, extremely conservative.” attested Jerome Swartz, president of “These new Dacron drip dry lines— the firm, “that statement is true of us we can say it because we didn’t invent But he made clear that the Swartz as I speak to you now.” them—are a god-send to the tropics,” brothers don’t lose their diplomacy, even when confronted by polities, na¬ He Won by a Flip he said. He showed a “wash ‘n’ wear” folder the company sends to every tional or international. He explained that someone had to be U. S. embassy in the world with thirty “One day several years ago, we were the president of the family firm and different fabric samples pasted on it. shooing our good friend Senator Joe that he ‘lost’ the coin toss from his The rest of his wardrobe list for the McCarthy out the back door because older brothers Edward, called Ed and tropical Ambassador was: Two light¬ our good friend Owen Lattimore was Walter, called Bill. He himself is weight nonwashable Dacron and wool coming in the front door,” said Jerome called Joe as often as Jerry. mix suits for cool nights; one pair of Swartz. The business the brothers inherited, lightweight tux trousers with two “And during the recent Suez con¬ T. I. Swartz and Co., was founded by washable white dinner jackets; one full troversy, Brother Ed was waiting on their father, Tobias I. Swartz, in 1895. dress—“and Liberia, a very dressy the members of an Israeli Embassy at They grew up in it. country, demands the cutaway.” the back of our place while I was tak¬ Except for a few wealthy political While Swartz don’t handle acces¬ ing care of six members of an Egyp¬ appointees to the diplomatic corps, sories, they can give advice. They have tian mission up front.” diplomats generally must put on a handsome public appearance with the help of comparatively small salaries. The Swartz brothers, who make every IN ANSWER TO NUMEROUS REQUESTS—WE ARE stitch they sell, can fit their “bargain” needs. • REPRINTING THIS ARTICLE Our sincere thanks and appreciation Jerome Swartz pointed out the to our many Foreign Service folks who took time-out to congratulate us on our wardrobes being made for Scott Mc¬ 'Coming Out’ in the New York Times. Hundreds of others wrote that they Leod, the new Ambassador to Ireland, • had 'heard’ but not 'seen’ the article. So, in acknowledgement of same, we hope and Walter P. MeConaughy, the Am¬ you enjoy this tribute to the Foreign Service as much as we did. bassador to Burma: The wardrobe for the Irish post, Mr. Swartz said, would run about as fol¬ lows at ordinary retail prices “very ' WALTER H. conservatively estimated.” Three all-purpose suits—choice of sharkskins, tweeds, whipcords, cash¬ meres, gabardines, etc., $200. One diplomat blue suit, for semi- : SWARTZ CO. formal functions, unfinished worsted, $75. • 501 EAST PRESTON ST. One tuxedo—imported tropical wor¬ sted and mohair, $80. One full dress, $95. BALTIMORE -2, MD. OCTOBER, 1957 1 4 GREAT HILTON INTERNATIONAL HOTELS THE CARIBE HILTON THE CONTINENTAL HILTON San Juan, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. Mexido City, Mexico 'rvfjtS. I THE CASTELLANA HILTON THE ISTANBUL HILTON Madrid, Spain Istanbul, Turkey ;Ut».( r.. Friendly Hilton hospitality will welcome you and your family at these four fine Hilton Hotels in leading cities around the world. 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The Foreign Service Journal is not official and material appearing herein rep¬ resents only the opinions of the writers, and is not intended in any way to indi¬ cate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. OCTOBER, 1957 Volume 34, Number 10 CONTENTS page 21 HEARD ON THE HILL 23 MERDEKA IN MALAYA by Eric and Peggy Kocher AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 25 THE EFFICIENCY REPORT C. BURKE ELBRICK, President ROBERT NEWBEGIN, Vice President by Willard L. Beaulac DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 32 THREE YEARS AT THE OPERA by Patrick Campbell BOARD OF DIRECTORS 34 MUTUAL SECURITY by E. J. Beigel E. ALLAN LICHTNER, JR., Chairman RANDOLPH A. KIDDER, Vice Chairman 42 WORLD AFFAIRS READING LIST THOMAS S. ESTES, Secretary-Treasurer STANLEY M. CLEVELAND JOSEPH PALMER, 2ND HERBERT P. FALES ARTHUR L. RICHARDS 9 departments W. TAPLEY BENNETT, JR., Ass't. Sec y-Treas. ROY R. RUBOTTOM, JR. 4 ELEVENTH SELECTION BOARDS 10 APPOINTMENTS AND DESIGNATIONS JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD ROBERT MCCLINTOCK, Chairman 12 FROM THE FIELD CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. by Christian Ravndal EDMUND GULLION NORMAN HANNAH 18 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO WILLIAM L. KRIEG by James B. Stewart JOHN T. WHEELOCK PATRICIA M. BYRNE 28 EDITORIAL PAGE EDWARD W. CLARK HOWARD P. JONES Recruitment and FS0s-8 JAMESON PARKER 29 WASHINGTON LETTER GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor by Gwen Barrows DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager HESTER H. HENDERSON, Editorial and Adv. Asst. 36 THE BOOKSHELF WINIFRED B. FOULDS, Circulation Manager 51 BIRTHS The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an 60 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the United States and the Department of State. The As¬ sociation was formed for the purpose of fostering esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. The Editors of the FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL will consider all articles submitted. If accepted, the Photograph by Paul B. Childs author will he paid one cent a word at time of publi* cation. Photographs accompanying articles will, if In Sotherby's auction rooms in London this past sum¬ accepted, be purchased at one dollar each. Five dollars mer over 3,000 people watched what Sotherby’s char¬ is paid for cover and full page pictures. acterized a “fantastic auction” when the highest amount ever realized for a single collection was bid and paid. It was the collection of Wilhelm Weinberg, New York banker, and the biggest purchaser was Samuel P. Spiegel, producer of “On the Waterfront.” Copyright, 1957, by the American Foreign Service Association. 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