The Foreign Service Journal, February 1962
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AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION CONTENTS FEBRUARY, 1962 CHARLES E. BOHLEN, President Volume .19, No. 2 TYLER THOMPSON, Vice President JULIAN F. HARRINGTON, General Manager BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary page BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILLIAM 0. BOSWELL, Chairman 21 THE FUTURE AND THE FOREIGN SERVICE HUGH G. APPLING, Vice Chairman by John Y. Millar JOAN M. CLARK, Secretary-Treasurer H. FREEMAN MATTHEWS, JR., Asst. Secy.-Treas. ROBERT M. BRANDIN 25 FSO’s-8 OF THE 1960’s MARTIN F. HERZ by Leon Crutcher HENRY ALLEN HOLMES THOMAS W. MAPP A FOREIGN SERVICE FABLE RICHARD A. POOLE 28 ROBERT C. STRONG 37 THE PATRIOTIC TRAITOR AND THE BLACKMAILER The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an un¬ official and voluntary association of the members, active by Sydney S. Biro and retired, of the Foreign Service of the United States and the Department of State. The Association was formed in order to foster an esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service and to establish a 43 THOUGHTS ON AN AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC STYLE center around which might be grouped the united ef¬ forts of its members for the improvement of the Service. by Robert McClintock Chiefs of Mission, FSO’s, FSR’s and FSS’s are eligible for active membership. American employees of other Departments or Agencies such as US1A and AID, who hold career status and who are on foreign service, are 50 POLAD—A PERMANENT INSTITUTION eligible for associate membership. Annual dues for both categories are $10.00 which includes a subscription by Richard R. Finn to the JOURNAL. Those interested in membership should write to the General Manager, AFSA, Suite SOI, 1742 “G” St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C. JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD departments WOODRUFF WALLNER, Chairman HENRY C. RAMSEY, Vice Chairman 4 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES THEODORE L. ELIOT, JR. HERMAN POLLACK 6 USIA F.S. PROMOTION LIST JACK R. PERRY HEYWARD ISHAM 14 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO JOHN H. HOLDRIDCE by James B. Stetvart JOHN Y. MILLAR ALFRED V. BOERNER 29 EDITORIAL PAGE JAMES R. FOWLER Emergency Medical Program for Africa GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Assistant Editor 30 WASHINGTON LETTER by Given Barrows The Editorial Board of the Foreign Service Journal considers all articles submitted. If accepted, the author will be paid one cent a 34 THE BOOKSHELF word at time of publication. Photographs accompanying articles will, if accepted, be purchased at one dollar each. Negatives and color transparencies are not acceptable. Photos should be black and white glossies, measuring THE GOLDEN AGE — Sculpture approximately 7 x 10 inches, and should be by Roberto Gonzalez Goyri. mailed between extra heavy cardboard. Photos are not returned, and the Journal is not re¬ sponsible for the return of unsolicited material. “La Edad de Oro,” shown on Please include full name and address on all the cover this month, is the work of Roberto Gonzalez Goyri, Pro¬ editorial material and a stamped, self-addressed gram Manager of USIS Guate¬ envelope if return is desired. mala’s Exhibits Section. Mr. Goyri recently received the Or¬ der of Quetzal from Guatemalan © American Foreign Service Association, 1962. The President Miguel Y'digoras Fu- Foreign Service Journal is published monthly (rates: entes. His works have been $5.00 a year, 50 cents a copy), by the American For¬ shown in the Rockefeller Gallery, eign Service Association, 1742 “G” St., N.W., Wash¬ the Pan American Union and in ington 6, D. C. Venice. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Printed in U.S.A. by Monumental Printing Company, Baltimore. FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL February 1962 l INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Ambassadorial Appointments A Idea del Mar 48 JOHN M. CABOT to Poland American Foreign Service Protective Association 13 HENRY R. LABOUISSE to Greece American International School 51 American Motors Corporation 5 American School in Switzerland, The . 49 BIRTHS American Security and Trust Company 12 CABOT. A son, John Ridgeway, born to Mr. and Mrs. John G. Assumption College J, 53 Cabot, December 9, in Boston. John Ridgeway is the grand¬ Atlas Realty of Arlington 47 Barclay, The 40 son of Ambassadors John M. Cabot and William C. Trimble. Bed Rock Dogs International 46 MARTIN. A son, Richard Reynolds, Jr., born to Mr. and Mrs. W. & Company 6 Richard Reynolds Martin, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on Sep¬ Booth-Barfield, Inc. 49 tember 7. Brewood Engravers 46 Burton, Dana & Company 48 PAGANEI.LI. A daughter, Carla Elizabeth, born to Mr. and Mrs. Calvert School 12 Robert P. Paganelli, November 21, in Beirut, Lebanon. Mr. Cavanaugh Shipping Company 12 Paganelli is Vice Consul in Basra, Iraq. Chrysler Corporation 32 & 33 SCHLAUDEMAN. A daughter, Katherine Estelle, born to Mr. and Dean Export Services, Inc. ... Cover II Mrs. Harry W. Schlaudeman, on November 30, in Carmel, DeHaven & Townsend, Crouter & Bodine 47 deSibour, J. Blaise &: Company 6 California. Mr. Schlaudeman is assigned to the Legation in DACOR 46 Sofia, Bulgaria. ^''''---Diplomatic Appliance Corporation 52 WARKER. A daughter, Ann Flanders, born to Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth Reed Ltd. 44 Peter F. Warker, Jr., October 30, in Niirnberg, Germany. Mr. Federal Storage Company 42 Warker is assigned to Prague. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company 17 First National City Bank of New York 11 Ford International 3 DEATHS Francis Scott Key Apartment Hotel 44 BOHNE. General Electronics, Inc. 47 Frederick A. Bohne, FSR, died on December 2 in General Motors Corporation 9 Toronto, Canada. Mr. Bohne entered the Foreign Service in Glcnmore Distilleries Company 15 1920 and served at Toronto, Kingston, Hamilton (Ontario), Grace Line 45 Beirut and Munich. At the time of his death be was on home Hilltop House _ 53 leave and was to return to Munich as Consul. International Sea Van, Inc. 16 COOKE. Cassandra Kinsman Cooke, three-year-old daughter of Jacob & Warwick, Inc. 39 McLachlen Banking Corporation 8 Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin Cooke, died November 20. in Bel¬ Merchants Transfer & Storage Company 10 grade, Yugoslavia. Miller, W. C. & A. N. Development Company 52 FLOURNOY. Richard W. Flournoy, former assistant legal adviser Mutual of Omaha 18 for special problems in the State Department, died December New England Fund 51 6, in Bethesda, Maryland. Mr. Flournoy had been with the Park Central Hotel 48 Paxton Van Lines 14 Department for 45 years when he retired in 1948. He was Publicker International, Inc. 11 considered one of the country’s foremost authorities on im¬ Rhea Radin-Realtor L 48 migration, naturalization and international law. Seagram Distillers Corporation ..: 19 FROST. Judith Spivak Frost, wife of William Lee Frost, former Security Storage Company 39 FSO, died December 23 in New York. Mrs. Frost taught at Service Investment Corporation 49 the International School in Belgrade while her husband was Simmons Properties 39 State Department Federal Credit Union 51 Second Secretary at the Embassy there. The Frosts had also Studebaker-Packard Corporation 20 served at Salzburg and Bonn. Sutro Bros. & Co. 47 LANE. Francis Adams Lane, FSO-retired. died December 5 in Swartz, T. I., Sons 4 Loehnliorst, a suburb of Bremen, Germany. Mr. Lane was a United Services Officers Insurance Association 42 United States Lines _ 49 member of the Foreign Service from 1929 to 1954 and served Waldorf-Astoria 7 in Bremen, Gibraltar and Liverpool. Wanamaker, Sophia, Inc 44 MINOR. George C. Minor, FSO-retired, died on December 12 at Orange, Virginia. Mr. Minor joined the Foreign Service in 1923 and retired in 1953. Among the posts where he served were Tirana, Stuttgart, Cologne, Paris, Moscow, Ot¬ PHOTOS AND ART FOR FEBRUARY tawa and Rome where he was Assistant Attache at the time of his retirement. Roberto Gonzales Goyri, cover Howard R. Simpson, illustration, p. 24, and cartoon, p. 56 Edward L, Fischer, illustrations, pp, 28 and 37 Marie Skora, “Pescadores do Reconcavo,” p. 29 Odilon Redon, National Gallery, “Wildflowers,” p. 30 Robert W. Rinden, “Life and Love in the Foreign Service,” p. 31 Arthur Ellis, Washington Post, photo, p. 35 Smithsonian Exhibit, photo, p. 36 Staff members from thirty-four embassies at a recent tour, spon¬ Paul Child, photo, p. 54 sored by AAFSW. of the State Department. 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL February 1962 1962 4-DOOR FORD FAIRLANE The new Ford Fairlane. 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