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The Foreign Service Journal, December 1932 THfc AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL ©jc Reason's Greetings! atxb Pest IHistfjes Jfor a iHerrp Cfjrigtmag anb jBjappp if^eto Pear Vol. IX DECEMBER. 1932 No. 12 INSURANCE SERVICE ANNUITIES AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION The American Foreign Service Protective Association is a non - profit mutual association organized for the promotion of the welfare of foreign service officers and their families: WHICH has in force group insurance WHICH assists beneficiaries of deceased amounting to more than $1,700,000 with a members to defray immediate emergency consistent increase in membership; expenses; WHICH has paid since its organization WHICH desires to increase its member¬ three years ago $43,000 in death claims; ship in order to spread more widely the benefits of its services and to offer the pos¬ WHICH offers a choice of several an¬ sibility of a substantial decrease in the nuity provisions affording an ideal medium present low group rates; for investment and savings and for an ad¬ WHICH invites every foreign service ditional income after retirement; officer under fifty-five years of age to be¬ come a member upon simple entrance re¬ WHICH offers the service of a qualified quirements, namely, application, certificate insurance adviser upon any phase of insur¬ in regard to health and check for first ance such as life insurance trusts, estate tax quarter’s premium ranging from $7.S0 to insurance, educational policies, et cetera; $37.50, depending upon rank in the Foreign WHICH has its contracts underwritten Service and amount of insurance; by one of the largest and strongest Ameri¬ WHICH solicits the aid and co-operation can insurance companies with assets of of every foreign service officer in promot¬ nearly one and a half billion dollars; ing the objectives of the Association. All communications and applications should be addressed to the Secretary- Treasurer, American Foreign Service Protective Association, Room 113, Department of State, Washington, D. C. JAMES B. STEWART JOSEPH E. JACOBS President Secretary-Treasurer J. ALAN MAPHIS, Insurance Adviser HARRY A. HAVENS, Assistant to Secretary-Treasurer PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. IX, No. 12 WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER, 1932 The Election THE final count of electoral votes cast in Flouse will meet in joint session on the second the election of November 8 shows a total of Wednesday in February to poll the votes. Then 472 votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt to 59 the Nation will be informed officially of the result for President Hoover, a margin of 206 electoral of the election. votes over the necessary majority. At half-past twelve of the morning of Novem¬ The popular vote as compiled by the Asso¬ ber 9, Governor Roosevelt received the following ciated Press up to November 16 (when figures telegram from President Hoover: were complete for only 14 States), has been es¬ “Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, timated to be in the neighborhood of 21,506,742 “Biltmore Hotel, New York City. for Franklin D. Roosevelt to 15,055,440 for Her¬ “I congratulate you on the opportunity that has bert Hoover. come to you to be of service to the country, and As compared with the election of 1928 the fig¬ I wish for you a most successful administration. ures are as follows: “In the common purpose of all of us, I shall 1928 dedicate myself to every possible helpful effort. HERBERT HOOVER/’ Herbert Hoover, Republican 444 Alfred E. Smith, Democrat 87 The situation in Congress after March 4 will Republican majority 357 be the most advantageous any President has found in recent years, not even excepting the 1932 Wilson victory of 1912, remarked Frederic Wil¬ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat 472 liam Wile, in a recent Washington Evening Star, Herbert Hoover, Republican 59 who went on to say: The House will be 3-to-l Democratic. In the Senate, Democratic majority 413 scarcely 20 out of 96 will remain who can be counted on to go down the line for the Republican organization. The 59 votes for President Hoover were from At one particular point, the Democratic strength in the following States: Connecticut (8), Delaware Congress will offer a tremendous leverage to the Demo¬ cratic administration. With so many members elected (3), Maine (5) New Hampshire (4), Pennsyl¬ on a pledge to reduce Government spending, the new vania (36), and Vermont (3). Chief Executive will be in a position to slash drastically The 531 electors—one for each seat in the at the Federal budget with every expectation of both House and Senate from each State—will meet in congressional and popular support. their respective States on the second Monday in In several of his campaign speeches, Mr. Roosevelt voiced an aspiration for closer cooperation between the January to vote for their party’s presidential and White House and the Governors of States and declared vice presidential candidates. The Senate and the President should take national leadership for reduction 453 of State and local taxes. For such an endeavor, condi¬ weeks he has fought to vindicate his administration with tions scarcely could be more propitious. Of the 48 Gov¬ surpassing conviction that he has spent himself unreserv¬ ernors, 38 will be Democrats who supported him for the edly in the service of the nation. He must not interpret presidency. the verdict of the voters today as a denial of his very Special political debts incurred in the election have been great services at the climax of the crisis last winter nor the greatest handicap to many Presidents, but Mr. Roose¬ must he understand it as a failure to realize how prodigi¬ velt’s support was so widespread as to make his obliga¬ ously he has labored. When all the campaign speeches tions national in their scope. It has been said before, have been forgotten, as they will be promptly, Herbert but it is a point of special interest: Neither the South, Hoover will find himself not a defeated candidate for nor the agricultural States, nor the industrial centers of office but a leader among the statesmen of the Republic the East, nor any individual among his supporters, nor to whom the people will turn constantly for disinterested the organization of any local political leader can claim advice. He should know tonight that his friends are to have supplied the margin of victory. He could have larger in number than the voters who went to the polls done without any one of these single features and, on for him; that they include a host of men and women the basis of the figures, won the election. who voted against him in accordance with their views of public affairs, and yet hope that he will for many years The same writer also remarked as follows in to come play a part in the public life of the American regard to the changes in Congress: people. The next Senate will be almost unrecognizable on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt was 50 years old G. O. P. side of the aisle. With Jim Watson, Reed last January 14. He has five children, Mrs. Cur¬ Smoot, George Moses, Hiram Johnson, and Wesley Jones wiped out, the upper House is like a glittering heaven tis Dali, James, Elliott, Franklin, and John. His suddenly bereft of its brightest stars. The disappear¬ wife, Anna Eleanor, a niece of the late Theodore ance of the quintet of old guard leaders is indisputably Roosevelt, is his own distant cousin. Mr. Roose¬ a loss to American public life. Congress contains no velt, like his distant cousin, the late President more experienced, seasoned or abler group of men. In the House of Representatives notable faces vanish, Theodore Roosevelt, is a descendant of the first too. Representative I'iorello La Guardia’s colorful career Roosevelt in America, Claes Martensen Van comes to an abrupt end. No one who knows the fiery Roosevelt, who settled in New Amsterdam in little Napoleon of Manhattan expects that it will be any¬ 1644; while on his mother’s side, he is of Flemish thing but a temporary eclipse. Widely regretted is extraction. His maternal ancestors were sea mer¬ the defeat of Representative Ruth Pratt, another New York Republican. chants. The ships of the Delanos of Roxbury, Mass., were known to the seven seas. Governor The following tribute was, in the hour of de¬ Roosevelt loves the sea. His homes in Hyde feat, paid to President Hoover by an editorial Park, New York City, Warm Springs, Ga., and writer in the Washington Evening Star: the executive mansion and office in Albany, in library and wall decorations, bear evidence of his The Republican party has been defeated. But Mr. Hoover emerges from the debacle measurably undamaged. seafaring bent. The grace with which he signified to Mr. Roosevelt his Since he entered public life 21 years ago, Gov¬ desire to help was but a minor manifestation of his gen¬ ernor Roosevelt advanced steadily, with the ex¬ erous character and noble cooperative spirit. As time ception of two setbacks, to the topmost position in passes the extravagant criticism heaped upon his name in the interests of partisanism will be forgotten, and Mr. party preference. The first obstacle was his de¬ Hoover will be more accurately judged. Then it will be feat as vice presidential candidate in 1920 when clear that, called to the presidency at a moment when no the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and one man humanly could have given universal satisfaction, Calvin Coolidge swept aside the Democratic se¬ he served the country as well and as effectively as any man, however gifted, could. The natural ebbing of the lections, James M. Cox and Roosevelt.
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