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WAILES, President Volume 35, Number 6 JOSEPH C. SATTERTHWAITE, Vice President page DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 8 TOWN MEETING by Joan Hulley BOARD OF DIRECTORS E. ALLAN LICHTNER, JR., Chairman 12 NIT-PICKING IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS G. FREDERICK REINHARDT, Vice Chairman by Albert W. Stoffel THOMAS S. ESTES, Secretary-Treasurer FINDLEY BURNS, JR., Assistant Secretary-Treasurer 18 COUNTRY DESK OFFICER (2nd of Two Articles) STANLEY M. CLEVELAND by Professor Robert E. Elder NATHANIEL DAVIS MAX V. KREBS ROBERT H. MCBRIDE 22 MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY E. JAN NADELMAN MARGARET J. TIBBETTS 25 COMMODORE PERRY’S SECRET ALLIES by Jeanne Riha The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the 38 THE CONSULATE GENERAL AT LEOPOLDVILLE United States and the Department of State. The As¬ sociation was formed for the purpose of fostering esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service and to establish a center around which might be 44 How TO BE PROMOTED TO FSO-1 grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. departments JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD 4 AWARDS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES JOHN H. BURNS, Chairman INDEX TO ADVERTISERS CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. NORMAN HANNAH 13 PUZZLER WILLIAM L. KRIEG JOHN T. WHEELOCK PATRICIA M. BYRNE 14 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO EDWARD W. CLARK by James B. Steivart JAMESON PARKER W. T. M. BEALE, JR. 23 WASHINGTON LETTER HENRY C. RAMSEY by Given Barrows GWEN BARROWS, Managing Editor 26 SERVICE GLIMPSES DAVID MCK. KEY, General Manager EVON N. CLARK, Editorial and Adv. Assistant 34 THE BOOKSHELF WINIFRED B. FOULDS, Circulation Manager 50 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Editorial Board of the FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL will consider all articles submitted. If accepted, the author will be paid 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. No photos are returned. “Street Scene, Tokyo” by Lewis Rubenstein This month’s cover was painted in Chi¬ nese ink by Lewis Rubenstein, who is Copyright, 1958, by the American Foreign Service Association. now in Japan on a Fulbright grant. He Issued monthly at the rate of $4.00 a year, 35 cents is a professor of art at Vassar College. a copy, by the American Foreign Service Association, 1908 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Printed in U.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com¬ pany, Baltimore. JUNE, 1958 3 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS AWARDS Alban Towers 29 American Foreign Service Protective Association 5 National Civil Service League American Motors Corporation 16 CAREER SERVICE AWARDS American Security & Trust Company 33 American Storage Company 39 WHITEMAN Legal adviser, Depart- For “keen insight into po¬ Arlington Realty Company 46 litical as well as legal as¬ Barclay, The 39 Marjorie M. ment, Inter-American Bowling Green Storage & Van Company 36 Affairs. pects of problems in Inter¬ B re wood Engravers . 15 national law and Latin Brown Forman Distillers Company 42 American politics.” Calvert School 32 Chase Manhattan Bank 39 MERCHANT, U. S. Ambassador to “The highest government Chatel, Millicent 32 Circle Florist _ 37 Livingston T. Canada. officials have come to rely DACOR 32 heavily on his judgment in Easy Washing Machine Company 49 dealing with many of the Educational Consulting Service I — 32 Firestone Tire & Rubber Company 1 most crucial problems.” First National City Bank of New York 32 Fowler Enterprises 32 Cum Laurie Francis Scott Key, Apartment Hotel 4 GALLMAN, Son of U. S. Ambassa¬ National Cum Laude So¬ General Electronics - 30 Glenmore Distillers , 11 Phillip dor to Baghdad and ciety membership at Berk¬ Goodman, Henry J. & Company . 46 Mrs. Waldemar J. Gall- shire School, Sheffield, Goodyear International Tire & Rubber Company 7 Mass. Grace Line 46 Hilton Hotels, International 41 International Telephone & Telegraph Company 43 Maphis, Alan, Insurance 46 Mayflower, The 45 BIRTHS Merchants Transfer & Storage Company 13 Mitchell, J. G. Company, Investments 45 KELAKOS. A daughter, Eleni Maria, born to Mr. and Mrs. M. G. National Distillers 6/40 M8 Kelakos, March 4, 1958, in Washington. Park Central Hotel 36 MASON. A son, Spencer Mason II, born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis S. Philco International Corporation 12 Princeton University Press 37 Mason, Jr., December 25, 1957, in Munich. Renault, L. N. & Sons, Incorporated— 39 MCKESSON. A son, John Alexander, born to Mr. and Mrs. John A. Schenley, Canadian OFC- II Cover McKesson, April 22, 1958, in Paris. Schenley International III Cover Seagrams’ .... 31 PAPPAS. A son, born to Mr. and Mrs. Chris C. Pappas, Jr., April 15, Security Storage Company of Washington 33 1958, in Salem, New Hampshire. Service Investment Corporation 30 ROSEN. A son, Robert Karl, born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Rosen, Simmons Properties 15 Sinclair Refining Company 14 April 21, 1958, in Washington. Smith’s Transfer &: Storage Company 15 TEELE. A son, Edward Barton, born to Mr. and Mrs. Thurston F. State Department Federal Credit Union 29 Teele, March 8. 1958, in Washington. State Drugs, Inc 32 Studebaker Packard Corporation 47 Swartz, W. H. Company 10 United Fruit Company 28 MARRIAGES United States Lines 28 United States Steel Export Corporation 52 PARSONS-LYONS. Jane Ivison Parsons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Waldorf Astoria Hotel . IV Cover Zenith Radio Corporation 2 Graham Parsons, and Joseph Stewart Lyons, son of Dr. and Mrs. John Lyons, were married April 16, in Washington. The bride’s father is currently serving in the Department as Deputy Assist¬ ant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. CHANGES IN ADDRESS Please help us keep our mailing list up-to-date by in¬ DEATHS dicating to the Circulation Manager of the JOURNAL changes in address, in advance when possible. APO or LARSON. Carrel B. Larson, Chief, Latin American branch, Defense FPO address should be mentioned if applicable. It is Materials Service, General Services Administration, died March no longer possible to replace copies undelivered because 6, 1958, in Washington.