The Foreign Service Journal, December 1959
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
I f *3 | / \ i AWXJSEI s a'* m 100 86 I PROOF PROOF it’s always a pleasure! Jr i f % TLED g0LD M£O^ In the lighter, milder 86 Proof toT y*£8»t or in lOO Proof Bottled in Bond Every drop of the milder 86 Proof is original and genuine &\ !. W. Harper bourbon —distilled and bottled at the same distillery tmm KENTUCKY KENTUCKY ST as the famous TOO Proof Bottled in Bond, *AICHT BOURBCH StRAICHT BOUBBOS WHISKEY WHISKEY ®OTH KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON HARPER DISTILLING COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY You’ll Never Wear an Ordinary Summer Suit Again! IT'S WHAT COMES OUT OF THE DRYER THAT COUNTS! The new wash’n’wear suit with a difference—-you don’t have to baby it. Just throw it in an automatic washer for the full cycle. Move it into an automatic dryer for full cycle. No-drip-drying required. Out it comes . clean & pressed and ready for use. Total elapsed time: 40 minutes. Fully tailored and you’ll love it. and, from $49 to $54 no manufacturer of Wash’n’Wear has more features built in. Administrative Officer has Swatch Folder YOUR Price is $29 .90 & $32.90. reprints of the hilarious Saturday Evening Post article on us which some feel is destined to be a collectors’ item, gladly mailed on request </> WALTER H. SWARTZ DIVISION ISO O “OUTLETS” T. no Z “branches” no </> “agents” 1. SWARTZ 600 South Pulaski Street • BALTIMORE 23, Md. Swatch folder available at your ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE—or write at once. Summer & Fall 1960 catalogue now ready—please write for your copy! 1 New design! New styling! In this famous all-transistor Zenith— the world's most powerful pocket radio of its size. Non-breakable nylon case in Maroon, White or Ebony colors. Model Royal 500-E. Give the big sound of ZENITH all-transistor radios... and watch the fun begin! ZENITH The quality goes in before the name goes on Backed by 41 years of leadership in radionics exclusively. The Royalty of television, stereophonic high fidelity instruments, phonographs, radit Zenith Radio Corporation, International Division, Chicago 39, Illinois The Foreign Service Journal is the professional journal of the American For¬ eign Service and is published by the American Foreign Service Association, a non¬ profit private organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION CONTENTS DECEMBER, 1959 G. FREDERICK REINHARDT, President Volume 36, Number 12 J. GRAHAM PARSONS, Vice President DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary page BOARD OF DIRECTORS 8 MR. MURPHY ON THE FOREIGN SERVICE THOMAS S. ESTES, Chairman WILLIAM L. BLUE, Vice Chairman DIPLOMATISTS STEPHEN WINSHIP, Secretary-Treasurer 21 Two MELISSA E. FOELSCH, Ass’t. Secretary-Treasurer by Harry Raymond Turkel CHARLES W. ADAIR, JR. WALDEMAR J. GALLMAN 24 THE TALE OF THE BUREAUCRAT SAMUEL R. GAMMON by Richard Funkhouser MAX V. KREBS DAVID H. MCCABE 30 FROM A MEMBER OF 1959’S SELECTION BOARDS: JOHN H. STUTESMAN, JR. 40 NEW AFSA OFFICERS The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an 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¬ 42 LETTER FROM KAMPALA sociation was formed for the purpose of fostering esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service by Peter Hooper, Jr. and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. 50 THIS CHANGED AND CHANGING WORLD by Walter Lippmann JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD 54 PACKING AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL EFFECTS W. T. M. BEALE, JR., Chairman JOHN H. BHRNS CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. departments HENRY C. RAMSEY JAMES CARSON PHILIP H. CHADBOURN, JR. 4 APPOINTMENTS AND DESIGNATIONS RICHARD T. DAVIES RICHARD FDNKHOUSER 14 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO H. FREEMAN MATTHEWS, JR. by James B. Stetvart JAMES F. O’CONNOR, JR. 27 EDITORIAL PAGE GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager 28 WASHINGTON LETTER JANE D. FISHBDRNE, Editorial and Adv. Asst. by Gwen Barrows WINIFRED B. TURNER, Circulation Manager 34 THE BOOKSHELF The Editorial Board of the FOREIGN 36 SERVICE GLIMPSES SERVICE JOURNAL will consider all articles submitted. If accepted, the author will be paid 56 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR one cent a word at time of publication. Photo¬ graphs accompanying articles will, if accepted, be purchased at one dollar each. Five dollars is paid for cover and full page pictures. Nega¬ COVER PHOTO tives and color transparencies are not accepta¬ ble. Photos should be black and white glossies, “Boys and Snow” by Paul Child measuring approximately 7x9 inches, and Mr. Child, currently Cultural Attache at Oslo, writes us: should be mailed between extra heavy card¬ “These children could be in New England, or Norway, board. No photos are returned. but actually they were in Germany at Plittersdorferaue, near Bonn. “It was February, 1956, and one of the coldest months in memory. The Rhine, half-seen on the right, was already Copyright, 1959, by the American Foreign Service choked with ice, and shortly afterward froze solid. That Association. was a rough winter for grown-ups, but wonderful for Issued monthly at the rate of $4.00 a year, 50 cents children——and these two snow-lovers probably wished it a copy, by the American Foreign Service Association. would last forever.” 1908 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. 0. Second- class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Printed in U.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com¬ pany, Baltimore. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Appointments and Designations Please mention the Foreign Service Journal when writing to advertisers. AMBASSADORS DOWLING, WALTER Alban Towers C. to Germany American Foreign Service Protective Association SESSIONS, EDSON O. to Finland American Motors Corporation SNOW, WILLIAM P. to Burma American Security and Trust Company American Storage Company To Class 2 Arista Trading Company Arlington Realty Company MINTZES, Joseph Barclay, The Beam, James B., Distilling Company To Class 3 Bell, W., and Company HOWLAND, Harold E. TAYLOR, Bowling Green Storage and Van Company Barney B. Brewood, Engravers JOHNSON, Norman F. Calvert School, The To Class 4 Chase Manhattan Bank, The „ Chatel, Milliccnt—Realtor LANDRY, George A. PETERS, T. Howard Circle Florists Container Transport International, Inc. To Class 5 DACOR KEMP, Diplomatic Appliance Corporation Henry W. SUMMERS, Thomas E. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company - .. KUSHNER, Harry First National City Bank of New York Ford International To Class 6 Francis Scott Key Apartment Hotel SIAFACAS, Spiros A. WHARTON, Anita R. General Electronics Incorporated General Motors Corporation To Class 7 Glenmore Distilleries Company Grace Line 16 ADAMS, Frances L. PROVENCHER, Roger A. Greenbelt Pharmacy „ _ __ 54 BALASHOVA, Ethel Groth, Edward M. Hilltop House, Incorporated 54 To Class 8 Intercontinental Hotels Corporation 7 ANDERSON, David LEDOGAR, Stephen J. Kellogg, The M. W., Company 9 ARMSTRONG, Rodney E. LODEESEN, Jon S. Mayflower, The 49 McLachlen Banking Corporation 48 BLACK, Donald P. NEF, Edward V. Merchants Transfer and Storage Company _ 6 BOWEN, Richard L. PERRY, Jack R. Miller, R. William, Jr. 52 BROWN, Thomas Gordon, Jr. REMMEY, Paul B., Jr. National Capital Storage and Moving Company, Inc. 10 BUCHE, John Allen SCHALLER, Charles W. National Distillers Products Company 13, 33, 41 Neptune World-Wide Moving 17 CONNELY, John B. STELK, Lincoln F. Park Central Hotel 1 52 CRAWFORD, John P. THOMAS, Charles H., II Paxton Van Lines 44 HARWOOD, Douglas James TWIN AM, Radin, Rhea—Realtor 54 Joseph W. Schenley Industries—Overseas .. II Cover HUMPHREYS, Marvin W. WALSH, Thomas H. Seagram Distillers Corporation 20 KAUFMAN, Robert E. WENDT, E. Allan Security Storage Company 31 KUHZE, Kenneth A. WILLIAMS, Service Investment Corporation 10 A. Norman Simmons Properties 45 LAASE, Paul L. Smith’s Transfer and Storage Company 14 State Department Federal Credit Union 53 Studebaker-Packard Corporation 5 FSO to be Consul General Swartz, Walter H., Company 1 Terry, Louise M. Realtor 32 COOTES, Merritt N. United Services Automobile Association 18 United Services Officers’ Insurance Association 45 FSO to be Consul United States Lines .... 45 Waldorf-Astoria, The IV Cover PAPPAS, Chris C., Jr. Zenith Radio Corporation 2 FSR to be Consul General TAFT, William Howard, III PHOTO AND ART CREDITS FOR DECEMBER FSR’s to be Consuls BLACQUE, Valentin E. Pavlyak, Michael Paul Child, The Cover: “Boys and Snow” COLLINS, ROSS L. PERKEY, John B., Jr. Jacques Callot, “View of the Villa Borghese,” from the exhibi¬ FLITCROFT, Daren J. POTTER, Philip B. K. tion of French Drawings from American Collections, HENNIG, Albert W. STRONG, William H. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, p. 23 NEFF, Eric Gustaf Tenggren in “Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights,” Golden Press, Inc., p. 24 FSR to be Consul and Secretary (from Tenggren’s “Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights.” Told by Margaret Soifer and Irwin Shapiro. Illustrated by Gustaf Teng¬ COHEN, Alex A. gren. Copyright 1957 by Golden Press, Inc. and Artists & Writers Guild, Inc. Printed in U.S.A.) FSR’s be Vice Consuls “The Feast of Herod,” from the important exhibit of Nor¬ BAKER, Charles J. SHEA, James F. wegian Tapestries, organized by the Norwegian Govern¬ BALLOU, Christopher H. SHERMAN, Joseph P. ment and circulated hv the Smithsonian Institution, p. 28 CLARK, Robert B. TAYLOR, Robert L. Ivan Payne, “Queen Street, Speightstown,” prizewinner in CONNELLY, James R. Alcoa contest, p. 28 “The Magi and the Adoration,” from the exhibition of Nor¬ FSR to be Vice Consul and Secretary wegian Tapestries, organized by the Norwegian Govern¬ BROWN, William T. ment and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, p. 29 “The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris,” book jacket FSR’s to be Secretaries illustration, (Charles E.