The Foreign Service Journal, April 1967
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FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION The Foreign Service JOURNAL is the professional Journal of the American AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION Foreign Service and is published by the American Foreign Service Association, FOY D. KOHLER, President a non-profit private organization. Material appearing herein represents the OUTERBRIDGE HORSEY, First Vice President opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the GARDNER E. PALMER, General Manager Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for JANE K. STELLE, Executive Secretary International Development or the Foreign Service as a whole. GLARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant JEAN M. CHISHOLM, Personal Purchases BOARD OF DIRECTORS DAVID H. MCKILLOP, Chairman April, 1967 ROBERT B. BLACK, Vice Chairman Vol. 44, No. 4 PETER P. LORD, Secretary-Treasurer contents PATRICIA M. BYRNE, Asst. Secretary-Treasurer ROBERT T CURRAN HOWARD V. FUNK page MICHAEL P. E. HOYT FRANK V. ORTIZ, JR. IN QUEST OF DIPLOMATIC STYLE HERMAN POLLACK 20 LANNON WALKER by Eugene R. Black JULIUS C. HOLMES, Ambassador, retired 23 DILEMMAS OF A BEX EXAMINER by David S. Burgess 26 FISHING IS ROYAL SPORT IN AFGHANISTAN JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD by Glen Wright JOHN H. STUTESMAN, JR., Chairman 29 A SAILING HOLIDAY IN GREECE REED HARRIS, Vice Chairman by David G. Nes STEPHEN LOW LOUIS SCHWARTZ, JR. Jo W. SAXE 34 NEW MODELS IN MOTORS ROGER C. BREWIN by Henry S, Villard LEWIS MACFARLANE S. I. NADLER 36 KINGA, COPERNICUS AND THE GROMPIES by Theodore A. Wertime JOURNAL STAFF 39 THE MANDARIN COMMITTEE LOREN CARROLL. Editor by John TV. Taylor SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Executive Editor MARGARET B. CATON, Circulation 46 THE WANDERWELL CASE MCIVER ART &: PUBLICATIONS INC. by Robert E. Wilson Art Direction OTHER FEATURES: Among Our Contributors, page 2; The Right to ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Know, by Leonard E. Marks, page 4; You Participate Me, by Jane Dale, page 10; Comment on the Argyris Report, page 54; The Old JAMES C. SASMOR. 230 Riverside Drive, New York, Ambassador, by Howard G. Neuburg, cover III. New York 10025 (212) MO 3-3390 ALBERT D. SHONK CO., 681 Market St., San Fran¬ cisco, Calif. 94105 (415) 392-7144 departments 14 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCTA- TION is composed of active and retired personnel who by Henry B. Day are or have been serving at home or abroad under the authority of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. It groups together people who have a com¬ 18 Focus ON FINANCE mon responsibility for the implementation of foreign by Edmund J. Reinhalter policy. It seeks to encourage the development of a career service of maximum effectiveness, and to ad¬ vance the welfare of its members. 31 EDITORIALS: The Problem Is Not . The dues for Active and Associate Members are The Arthur S. Flemming Awards either $15 or $12: For FSO’s in Class V and above the rate is $15 and is the same for FSR’s, Staff officers and Civil Service personnel in corresponding grades. WASHINGTON LETTER For Active Members in lower grades the dues are $12. 32 The annual dues for retired members and others who by Loren Carroll ■re not Active Members are $12. Each membership includes a subscription to the FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL. 41 BOOKSHELF For subscriptions to the JOURNAL, one. year (12^ is¬ sues), $6.00; two years, $10.00. For subscriptions going thread, except countries in the Western hemisphere, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR add $1.00 annually for oversees postage. 55 Ambassadorial Nominations ELLSWORTH BUNKER, to Vietnam Among Our Contributors RICHARD H. NOLTE, to United Arab Republic GLEN WRIGHT, who found “Fishing is Royal Sport in Af¬ Births ghanistan,” was born in Utah, reared in Idaho and began bis newspaper career in 1929 in Panama City. He retired from L’HEUREUX. A son, James Francis, born to FSO and Mrs. 30 years of newspapering in 1958 to earn his BA and MJ David E. L’Heureux, on January 9, in Karlsruhe, Ger¬ degrees and began his second career as journalism teacher in many. Mr. L’Heureux is Administrative Officer in Bangui. 1961. On leave from Berkeley High School, he was Fulbright Marriages journalism lecturer at Kabul University, serving also as ad¬ viser to Afghan Government Advertising Agency and corre¬ KILLGORE-KIUEGER. Elizabeth N. Killgore, daughter of FSO and Mrs. Andrew I. Killgore, was married to Paul E. spondent for Copley News Service. Mr. Wright is now back Krieger, on July 2, in Washington. Mrs. Krieger is a sen¬ teaching journalism at Berkeley High and California State ior at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. College. Our cover artist, JOAN T. LUND, is the wife of John V. MCDILL-DREW. Mrs. Alexander Stuart McDill was married to Lund, PAO in Khartoum until January of this year. Mrs. the Honorable Gerald A. Drew, on February 18, at Lund studied art in Helsinki, New Delhi and Singapore dur¬ Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. ing her husband’s tours of duty overseas and taught art for a NELLES-LEONHARDY. Lee M. Nelles, FSO, was married to year at the American School. Her paintings of the Sudan FSO Terrance G. Leonhardy, on February 4, at Drayton were exhibited in a one-man show at the American Cultural Plains, Michigan. Center in Khartoum. The Lunds are building a house in TOMPKINS-SIZER. Catherine P. Tompkins was married to FSO Ibiza and plan to live there upon his retirement this spring. Henry S. Sizer, on August 13, in Washington. Mrs. Lund’s paintings will be shown at the Middle East In¬ Deaths stitute, 1761 N St., N.W., April 18-22. DAVID G. NES, whose “Sailing Holiday in Greece” appears EDMAN. George W. Edman, FSR-retired, USIA, died on March 10, in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Edman entered the on page 29, is completing 25 years of military and diplomatic Foreign Service in 1947. He served at Copenhagen, Athens, service, the last 13 as Deputy Chief of Mission in four posts. Rangoon, Rome, Damascus, Panama and New Delhi, re¬ His other hobby is golf. tiring from USIA in 1965. HENRY S. VILLARD is continuing to serve as Director of Programs at the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and HOLDING. Robert P. Holding, supply management specialist, died on March 3, in Washington. Mr. Holding joined the is working on a book about the early flying machines to be Foreign Service in 1946 and served in Heidelberg, Mann¬ published by Crowell sometime this year. Ambassador Vil- heim and, with FOA, in Vientiane. Since November he lard’s annual report on the auto industry appears on page 34. had been on special detail to the Justice Department. THEODORE A. WERTIME, who edited FORUM for the VOA from 1963-66, authored “Kinga, Copernicus and the Grom- WILSON. Thomas Murray Wilson, FSO-retired, died on March 2, in Washington. Mr. Wilson entered the State pies” for the JOURNAL. Mr. Wertime has also served as Cul¬ Department in 1919 and served in several consulates in tural Attache in Iran and Deputy Director, Office of Re¬ China. He later served at Madras, Bombay, Sydney, Cal¬ search, USIA. He is the author of “The Coming of the Age cutta (with the rank of minister), and was appointed of Steel” (University of Chicago Press, 1963) and many arti¬ Minister to Iraq in 1942. He retired in 1944. cles for professional journals. ROBERT E. WILSON, FSO 1936-61, served in Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador, Spain, India and as Consul General in PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Rotterdam. Since his retirement in 1961, he has been a mem¬ FOR APRIL ber of the faculty of the University of California at Santa Joan T. Lund, wife of John V. Lund, USIA, painting “On the Barbara. Mr. Wilson’s early experience in Mazatlan appears Blue Nile Road to Burri,” cover. on page 46. Department of State, photograph, page 6. JOHN W. TAYLOR is a former Marine pilot who entered the S. I. Nadler, “Life and Love in the Foreign Service,” page 23, Foreign Service in 1957. As a Chinese language officer he 24 and 33. Photo on page 24 from “Young Sinners,” with served for five years in the Republic of China. Mr. Taylor is Dorothy Jordan and Hardie Albright, on page 33 from assigned to the Far East office of INR. “The Mandarin Com¬ “Silver Dollar.” mittee” is on page 39 of this issue. Clara Wright, wife of Glen Wright, photographs, pages 26, JANE CAPEN DALE, wife of FSO William N. Dale, writes, 27 and 28. “In 20 years in the Foreign Service we’ve produced three Howard R. Simpson, USIA, cartoon, page 56. sons, now scattered to the four winds: two colleges and ACS in Beirut—the fourth wind must be us in Tel Aviv. Sorry I can’t type this: every machine we acquire goes away to The Foreign Service JOURNAL welcomes contributions and will school.” Mrs.