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In the Smart World, it’s The world’s SCHENLEY I o roes t sell in o I CONTENTS AUGUST, 1946 Cover Picture: The Great Gate of Sana’a, Bab el Imam, Yemen Foreign Service Glimpses 5 The Agreement of Sana’a 7 By Richard H. Sanger The Division of Foreign Service Planning 11 By Andrew B. Foster The Philippines Receives Its Independenc 13 By Edward W. Mill Foreign Policy Begins at Home 15 By John Scott Report to the Service 18 By Robert F. Evans Marriages 20 SINCLAIR Distributors Medals for Freedom, photos 21 throughout the world make Editor’s Column 22 Implementing the Manpower Bill available a line of highly News from the Department 23 SPECIALIZED LUBRICANTS for Induction of New FSOs, photos 25 all Industrial and Automo¬ News from the Field 26 tive needs. 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AUGUST. 1946 3 T/mmj-wr-j a FOODS ren?ier ren?ier rentier fr<> rnie, en Prenjier J>r ?ier ’^PEANUT COFFEE ■ «y TEA Wherever you go throughout the world you Not only will you enjoy the finest of Ameri¬ can enjoy Premier Famous-for-Flavor Foods. can foods, selected and prepared according to most rigid standards, but you will be as¬ Let them follow you by availing yourself of sured of efficient service down to the minutest our EXPORT SERVICE developed for the details of packing and shipping. convenience of foreign service officers and Many foreign service families have for years their families. enjoyed this serivce. EXPORT DIVISION FRANCIS \\. LEGGETT & COMPANY HUDSON RIVER, 27TH TO 28TH STREETS NEW YORK CITY, N. Y„ U. S. A. THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES May 31, 1946 The Department of State announced today the following transfers and assignments of Foreign Service officers: H. LAWRENCE GROVES of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, is being transferred from the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway to the American Embassy in Athens, Greece. Mr. Groves, who was Counselor of Embassy for Economic Affairs at Oslo, will have the same position in Athens. Mr. Groves, a graduate of Harvard University, entered the United States Foreign Service in 1939 from the De¬ partment of Commerce. Prior to his assignment in Oslo he had served as Counselor of Embassy for Economic Affairs in Caracas, Venezuela. CHARLES A. HUTCHISON of 1509 East Third Street, Duluth, Minnesota, is being transferred to Habana, Cuba, where he will serve as First Secretary of Embassy and Consul. Mr. Hutchinson has been serving as Consul in Adelaide, Australia. Born in Clinton, Iowa, Mr. Hutchinson is a graduate of Ships to be proud of... the University of Minnesota and was appointed an officer in the Foreign Service of the United States in November, 1929 when be was assigned to Windsor, Ontario. He is now a Class IV Foreign Service officer. Grace Line’s new fleet of 20 modern "Santa’ ’ HOWARD K. TRAVERS of 3110 Hawthorne Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., is being transferred to Vancouver, ships brings to our Merchant Marine the British Columbia, where he will serve as Consul General. Mr. Travers has been on duty in the Department of State as Chief of the Visa Division. last word in utility. They reflect the Born in Central Valley, New York, Mr. Travers attended Princeton University and served as a Lieutenant during ingenuity of America’s designers, the skill the first World War. His first assignment as a Foreign Service officer was to Naples, Italy in 1921. or' MARSHALL M. VANCE of Dayton, Ohio, is being trans¬ America’s builders and the experience ferred to Berlin, Germany where he will serve with the temporary rank of Counselor. Mr. Vance has been on and high standards of America’s operators. duty in the Department of State. Born in Middletown, Ohio, Mr. Vance received his edu¬ Featuring the completely renovated and cation at Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Pennsyl¬ vania, and Yale University, and was first appointed as an officer of the Foreign Service in 1921 when he was as¬ modernized Santa Rosa and Santa Paula, signed to Colombo, Ceylon. Prior to entering the government service, Mr. Vance this new fleet will link the Americas with worked for the Standard Oil Company of New York in the Dutch East Indies, the Detroit Bureau of Govern¬ mental Research, and the National Cash Register Com¬ swift, efficient and economical service for pany. KELD CHRISTENSEN of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is being as¬ travelers and shippers alike. signed as Vice Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mr. Christensen has previously served as a Vice Consul at Reykjavik, Iceland; Iskenderun, Turkey; Halifax, Nova GRACE LINE Scotia; and Oran, Algeria. Born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, he was educated at Teachers 10 Hanover Square or Rockefeller Center, New York; Pittsburgh; College in Cedar Falls, and the University of Minnesota. Washington, I). C.; New Orleans; Houston; Chicago; Detroit; ROBERT J. GIBBONS of 239 South Street, Gabon, Ohio, San Francisco; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; Vancouver, B. C. is being assigned as Vice Consul at the American Legation in Bangkok, Siam. Mr. Gibbons was recently commissioned as officer in the Foreign Service and has previously served at the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and the Ameri¬ can Legations in Wellington, New Zealand and Baghdad, Iraq. Born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Mr. Gibbons received his education at Strayers College, Washington, D. C., and served in the U. S. Marine Corps between April 16, 1934 and July 29, 1937. DALE W. MAHER of Joplin, Missouri, is being trans¬ ferred to Pretoria, Union of South Africa, where he will be (Continued on page 52) AUGUST, 1946 5 HERE’S CONCLUSIVE PROOF THAT THE Tii*«$tone" /V£fV CHAMPION IS THE SAFEST, LONGEST WEARING TIRE EVER BUILT IMAGINE a set of tires that will run 50,000 BEST TODAY STILL BETTER miles without a puncture or a blowout, witlv . TOMORROW . out recapping, and still have many more miles of service left in them. That, in effect, is the performance record set by Firestone Tires in winning the Indianapolis Race this year for the twenty-third consecutive time. Authorities say that 500 miles on the tire-torturing Speedway, at speeds as high as 160 miles an hour, are equal to 50,000 miles of ordinary driving.