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The Foreign Service Journal, July 1950 9L AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 27, NO. 7 JOURNAL .KJLY, 1950 It gives us special satisfaction to supply I. W. Harper Whiskey to men and women in America’s foreign service. We are proud to serve you, and we value highly the example you set for your guests. For these reasons alone, you can depend on our safeguarding I. W. Harper’s unexcelled taste and quality. Cost is never consulted in making this superb whiskey. It’s made for you to pour with pride and drink with pleasure. Distributed overseas by , SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION THERE ARE NO FINER WHISKIES THAN AMERICAN WHISKIES I. W. H A R P E R SI AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SERVICE HONORARY PRESIDENT DEAN ACHESON SECRETARY OF STATE HONORARY VlCE-P°ESI DENTS THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF JOURNAL STATE THE COUNSELOR GEORGE F. KENNAN PRESIDENT W. WALTON BUTTERWORTH VICE PRESIDENT ELBERT G. MATHEWS SECRETARY-TREASURER JOHN M. McSWEENEY ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER BARBARA P. CHALMERS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HERVE J. L'HEUREUX CHAIRMAN ELBRIDGE DURBROW VICE CHAIRMAN ELBERT G. MATHEWS JOHN M. MCSWEENEY WILLIAM P. HUGHES PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY ALTERNATES RAYMOND A. HARE HAROLD N. WADDELL THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD JOHN M. ALLISON CHAIRMAN FR ANK S. HOPKINS VOL. 27, NO. 7 JULY, 1950 G. FREDERICK REINHARDT EUGENE DESVERNINE WILLIAM J. HANDLEY COVER PICTURE: Natives of Bevnam (south of Ankara) watch their first movie, CORNELIUS J. DWYER JOAN DAVID MANAGING EDITOR a USIS film. See the story by James Macfarland on page 25. ROBERT M. WINFR*~E ADVERTISING MANAGER DIPLOMATIC DRAMA IX EDUCATION COMMITTEE By Mary S Johnston, FSR N'LFS W. BOND CHAIRMAN BENJAMIN M. HULLEY "THE CONSUL,” Critical Review of a Play 15 JOSEPH S. SPARKS By M. F. H. MRS. ELBRIDGE DURBPOW MRS. JOHN K. EMMERSON THE EVOLUTION OF FOREIGN SERVICE ALLOWANCES 16 A LTERNA TTC By David M. Clark, FSO MRS. WILLIAM L. KRIEG EVAN M. WILSON DANIEL’S DILEMMA 18 ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE By Louis C. Nolan, FSS JACK D. NEAL CHAIRMAN FULTON FREEMAN FOCUS ON FREEDOM 20 G. FREDERICK REINHARDT By Faith Brewer and Emily Towe STUART W. ROCKWFI i. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR. II USIS, ANKARA 25 ALTERNATES MISS G. EDITH BLAND By James M. Macfarland, FSS THOMAS S. ESTES THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. deWolf, Review Editor 28 RusseH B. Thornton Boy D. Kohler WELFARE COMMITTEE F. L. Hadsel Willard F. Barber WILLIAM O. BOSWELL WILLIAM E. FLOURNOY. JR. DAVID A. THOMASSON AMERICA COMES TO ABRUZZI 30 By Gene Caprio, FSS This publication is not official and material appearing1 herein represents FOREIGN SERVICE STAFF CORPS PROMOTIONS 51 only personal opinions, and is not in¬ tended in any way to indicate the official views of the Department of DEPARTMENTS State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS 3 The Editors will consider all manu¬ scripts submitted to the American Marriages 17 Foreign Service Journal. If accepted, the author will be paid a minimum of Service Glimpses 23 one cent a word on publication. Pho¬ tographs accompanying articles will, Editors’ Column if accented, be purchased at one dol¬ Restraints and Opportunities 24 lar each. Five dollars is paid for cover pictures. ECA and the Foreign Service 24 Copyright, 1950, by the American News From the Department 26 Foreign Service Association. Issued monthly at the rate of $4.00 Twenty-Five Years Ago 27 a year, 40 cents a copy by the Amer¬ ican Foreign Service Association, 1809 News From the Field 32 Cx Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the In Memoriam 50 Post Office in Washington, D. C., un¬ der the Act of March 3, 1879. Births : - 51 You can prove what I proved Chesterfields are much Milder iMiiudfa ^Jovu^ Starring In "DEPORTED' A Universal-International Let Tobacco^'”oU hoW ClOM^^ yOU buy Chesterfi, u °P«n if „ *me/| fho( c£"** oromo. No '9aretie hgf , CHESTERFIELD Copyright 1930, LIGOBTT & Mress TOBACCO Ca THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL WELLBORN MOTORS, INC. Letters to the Editors CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH (Direct Factory Dealer) NOW IS THE TIME or “We Serve the Service Serving the Nation” HOW TO RETIRE GRACEFULLY Washington, D. C. Call SLigo 1333 1100 East-West Highway To the Editors, Washington Directory Silver Spring, Md. AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: The most important problem to face upon retirement is the financial one, which grows worse with the years. To begin with, your maximum annuity 160% of your basic salary for the last five years of service) may work out to about half the salary you are receiving upon retirement. You will have no allowances for rent, heat and light; nor -Attention for entertainment or cost of living — in short, no allow¬ OFFICERS AND PERMANENT AMERICAN ances. So, for officers of Class I or lower, your income will be in effect about 36% of what you were getting when YOU EMPLOYEES OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE retired. This is partly compensated for by the fact that you (EXCEPT Reserve Officers) no longer need to maintain your official prestige — von Are you enjoying adequate protection? Have you haven’t any, any more — or your chauffeur or your house¬ made satisfactory provision for your family? A large hold of oriental servants, but you will find the Unite; proportion of your colleagues are deriving real secur¬ States fairly expensive and you will have to do the house ity at very low cost through their participation in the hold chores yourself. plan of group life insurance and hospital-surgical coverage for dependents provided by the American In addition to your immediate financial deflation, you Foreign Service Protective Association. Members of must realize that as time goes on, and prices continue tc the Association also have the advantage of $1,000 free rise —r- as they have over the past thirty years, and th« insurance as well as Accidental Death and Dismember¬ thirty years before that ad infinitum — your annuity doe: ment Insurance in the amount of their basic group in¬ surance. For example, if a Member holding $11,000 not increase and your deflation does. It’s no joke. insurance ($10,000 basic group insurance plus $1,000 Incidentally. I have talked to a good many retired officer: free insurance) should suffer a fatal accident the and their wives and though retirement has its compensa beneficiary would receive the $11,000 insurance plus r $10,000 under the Accidental Death Insurance, making tions 1 have not found that forced w'ithdrawal from societ) a total of $21,000. for financial reasons is one of them. The comments in the Announcement of March I, The second important problem involved by retirement i 1949, about hospital-surgical coverage for Members to find diversion or an avocation or a new occupation tr will not apply subsequent to May 31, 1950. The Acci¬ fill in your time. dental Death and Dismemberment Insurance became effective at 12 o'clock noon March I, 1950. The Decades Ahead You will find application forms at the back of the Announcement of March I, 1949 which should be on Modern medicine has lengthened our lives many year: file in all Foreign Service establishments, or you may in recent decades, so much so that it is not too far-fetchec receive an application form by writing direct to the Association. to expect that many, if not most, retired Foreign Service American Foreign Service men and women may live to be a hundred years old. I! Protective Association you retire at 50 years of age you have a potential fifty more Care the Department of State to live. If you stay on until you are sixty, and only live Washington 25, D. C. till you are 90, you still have 30 years to go. Assuming that you have escaped crippling diseases or afflictions (the drives to kill cancer and heart disease may succeed before you retire) you won’t have much fun sitting all that time in a rocker listening to your arteries harden. They’ll probably discover some cure for that too, like putting iodine in your salt, and you just can’t die. The solution to your financial and occupational problems may be solved simultaneously if you are lucky enough to get Wouldn't you rather gainful employment in some congenial occupation. Former Ambassador Messersmith is manager of the electric light and pow’er company in Mexico City. Former Ambassador drink Four Roses? Tuck is on the Suez Canal governing board. Former Am¬ bassador Gauss is on the board of the United States Export- Import Bank. Other retired officers are advisors to foreign governments, professors in various American colleges, prac¬ ticing law. in business, writing, operating farms and so on. 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