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The Foreign Service Journal, March 1941 <3L AMERICAN OREIGN SERVICE VOL. l\ NO. 3 JOURNAL MARCH, 1941 All We’ve Learned in 42 Years is Yours in this FOR RADIO ENTERTAINMENT FOR PLAYING RECORDS , naJtivitv and tone that >T r»tS viSr.“fr«; ;«> KCA VICTROLA MODEL QU-7 “^ScVn0y '.'“"S',' . riVFNTY RCA Tubes KCA Victor Gentle-Actio y Records gives you a full cam***-® and volume S-thout lifting a ^^usie hall. The micro- I "Si, adequate for even algconcealed) permits «d_ ;ss£ * c p.R.E-A-D Bandson31,&A*' 6 * H**SV »— „» b„ p„,rf be'among ymir proudest possessions . - - of this American achi t,_radio and public for details. ^ . -»<-nrdine phonog 1 manufac- address system f RCA Victor » ™ Trademarks. KGACA Victor,” Go., "Victrola” Inc. Keg RCA M bSyr-ml .” QU-1 II. s. Pat. Off. by RCA For greater radio plea.ure j WRCA Victor - WC In,ern“Uon 1 Smt ^ R(, XING and WNBI, New Vork, U lr cial pressings . • • . B Gf both. As a radio, and 17,780 KC. entertainment, or"QU^ makes all the wor the RCA Victrola Du Co Inc., Camden, N. J-, uS‘A> . RCA Manufacturing Co., in ■- Co„ ud„ Montreal CONTENTS MARCH, 1941 THIRD I’RIZE WINNING STORY “Before the Firing: Squad” by George I*. Shaw (PaX* 140) Cover Picture: The Dalmatian Coast See page 1 52 The New Importance of Electrical Communica¬ tions Prepared by the Federal Communications Com¬ mission 125 Diplomatic Immunity? In Memoriam 129 Whether your car is travelling a Bur¬ The Newest National Treasure mese jungle road or a boulevard in By Robert Henry McBride 130 Buenos Aires, comprehensive automo¬ Personnel Shortage in the Foreign Service bile insurance is essential for security Prepared by the Division oj Foreign Service < and peace of mind. There is personal Personnel c’" ‘ 135 effects insurance, too, and other usual Selected Question from the Third General For¬ and unusual coverages for practically eign Service Examination of 1940 136 every known risk. Editors’ Column Our organization, over the past 20 On the Air 142 years, has specialized in meeting the News from the Department insurance requirements of U. S. Gov¬ By Reginald P. Mitchell 143 ernment personnel. Check over your News from tin* Field 146 insurance needs. A.l.U. policies offer US$ protection, world-wide, in famil¬ The Bookshelf iar American companies. Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor 148 The Sinking of the City of Rayville By Fred W. Jandrey.. 150 Changes in the Journal Staff 152 Foreign Service Changes 154 Service Glimpses 155 Successful Candidates in 1940 Foreign Service AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL Examinations 156 UNDERWRITERS CORPORATION IJ. S. at Derna—press comment 167 l I I John Street. New York 340 Pine Street, San Francisco JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPH CONTEST 169 Comprehensive Automobile The Coming of Steam Vessels to Chile 170 I 1 Fire — Residence A Personal Foreign Service Retirements 176 Property Check Q Personal Effects Births 180 i j Residence Burglary, Theft and These Visitors 180 1 Larceny Insurance \ 0 Jewelry—-Furs All Risk Coverages 0 Trip Transit 0 Travelers Baggage Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Associa¬ 0 Accident tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., □ Life under the act of March 3, 1879. MARCH, 1941 121 For fast, accurate and reliable telegraph service to Central and South America and to the West Indies, send your messages — via dll dm erica tTlackay Commercial Cables Tostal Telegraph THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM Cablegrams “via All America” may be sent from any Postal Telegraph Office ALL AMERICA CABLES AND RADIO, INC. Main Office: 67 Broad Street, New York 122 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL INDEX FOR ADVERTISERS American Export Lines 162 American International Underwriters Corporation 121 \ merican Republics Line , 165 American Security and Trust Company . — ~ 153 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba— _ — 179 Bowling Green Storage & Van Co. 164 Brewood (Engravers) 174 Calvert School 175 Campbell Company, W. D. - 173 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai 179 Chase National Bank 176 Clark, Horace F., & Son .... _ 177 Fairfax Hotel ... 174 Fessenden School, The - 177 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co _ 124 General Motors Overseas Operations 123 Grace Line ... 159 General Motors has a car to fit your purse Gude Bros. Co 178 and purpose. Our overseas organization is Hay-Adams House 175 ready to show you the way to better motor¬ International Telephone & Telegraph Co. 122 ing through world-wide sales and service of Mayflower Hotel _. ... 158 Metropole Hotel Shanghai 179 CHEVROLET Moore-McCormack Lines 165 PONTIAC OLDSMOBILE National City Bank ... 180 National Geographic Magazine 167 BUICK LA SALLE New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. ... 174 CADILLAC CMC TRUCKS Pacific Fisheries, Assn, of 177 Pan-American Airways, Inc 171 Park Hotel—Shanghai 179 Dealers in principal cities throughout the RCA Mfg. Co., Inc. ..... II COVER world. Factory sales and service at Sapp, Earle W., C.L.I . 174 Schenley Products 173 Adelaide Melbourne Security Storage Company of Washington 153 Alexandria Mexico City Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. 156 Antwerp Osaka Turner’s Diplomatic School 177 Batavia Paris Tyner, Miss E. J 174 Bombay Perth Underwriters 121 Bienne Port Elizabeth Underwood Elliott Fisher Company _ ._ 172 United Fruit Company 176 Buenos Aires Sao Paulo United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 171 Copenhagen Stockholm United States Lines 157 United States Steel Export Company 163 Lima Southampton Lisbon Sydney Walcott-Taylor Co., Inc 178 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV COVER Wellington Westinghouse Electric International Company. Ill COVER Williams & Co., Inc., R. C. L68 Woodward & Lothrop - 166 GENERAL MOTORS OVERSEAS OPERATIONS Please mention THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 1775 Broadway New York City when writing to Advertisers. MARCH, 1941 12S THE ?AMIIRL«M FOREIGN mm JOURNAL cn PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION m VOL. 18, No. 3 WASHINGTON. D. C. MARCH, 1941 The New Importance of Electrical Communications Prepared for llie FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL by the Federal Communications Commission WHEN Marconi made his pioneer transatlantic police stations; 4,500 ship stations; 2,000 aircraft wireless tests at the turn of the century the stations; more than 1,000 forestry stations; and al¬ world little anticipated the vital role that radio would most 500 special emergency stations, not to mention today play in international affairs. The spark sig¬ nearly 900 broadcast stations whose programs filter nal then used has, thanks to the vacuum tube, giv¬ to some 50.000,000 receiving sets. en way to improved transmission by means of radio This phenomenal growth of radio is apart from telegraphy, radio telephony, and radio broadcasting. developments in the older electrical communications Radio’s development makes it possible for voices services— telephone, telegraph, and cable. to be wafted between Europe and America in one- Supervision of these forms of communication is sixtieth of a second! Operation of electrical ap¬ coordinated in the Federal Communications Com¬ paratus capable of such farflung and almost instan¬ mission. Before passage of the Communications taneous communication has been a commercial Act in 1934. such regulation was shared by the Fed¬ boon. But in war. as in peace time, broadcasts cut eral Radio Commission (which had been created in across time and distance to challenge any claim of 1927 to handle this lusty newcomer in the field), by isolation. the Interstate Commerce Commission, and also by The current war is the first major conflict to be the Post Office Department. fought on the land, on the sea, and in the air to the The purposes of the Federal Communications inclusion of the ether. The World War had no Commission, as outlined in its creative act, are: radio problem of the magnitude now so evident. “. regulating interstate and foreign commerce in Then there was only the dot-and-dash signal to con¬ communication by wire and radio so as to make avail¬ sider. Today there are commercial, amateur, and able. so far as possible, to all the people of the United program transmissions to perplex the international States a rapid, efficient. Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate picture. facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the “Policing” the ether lias become an important national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety dutv in connection with the national defense pro¬ of life and property through the use of wire and radio gram. This is attested in the fact that the United communication, and for the purpose of securing a more States now has more than 56,000 amateur radio sta¬ effective execution of this policy by centralizing au¬ tions; nearl\ 10.000 commercial stations; 6,300 thority heretofore granted by law to several agencies Forest fire patrolman using shortwave radio in Umatilla National Forest, Ore. banned amateur communication with foreign coun¬ tries. and, further, prohibits the use of portable long-distance transmitters by amateurs. The Com¬ mission does not want to interfere with radio and wire communications any more than is necessary for the national protection. Individuals and industries concerned are collaborating in this common con¬ tribution toward the national security. The relationship of radio, wire, and cable facil¬ ities to the defense picture is being further coordi¬ nated bv the Defense Communications Hoard, cre¬ ated by Executive Order in September. This board, which has no operating or procurement functions, is basically a collective planning agency for the various Federal departments and agencies having a vital interest in this phase of preparedness. It is advised by committees representing all branches of communications involved. The board is headed b\ James Lawrence Fly. who is also chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and has these additional members: Major General J. 0. Mau- borgne, Chief Signal Officer of the Army; Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes, Director of Naval Commu¬ nications; Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary Photo by U.
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