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Studebaker A sensationally high-powered Studebaker-Packard is the worlds 4th largest NEW COMMANDER V-8 full-line producer of cars and trucks 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published, monthly by THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION DECEMBER 1954 Volume 31, Number 12 CONTENTS page 22 FINE ARTS OF FOREIGN POLICY by Carl Char lick 26 ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF THE SMALL MISSION by S. Paul Miller 28 CHRISTMAS IN NORWAY by Mrs. L. Corrin Strong 29 A “DANISH” CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRIA by Margaret Napper THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE 30 THE PRESIDENT’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE ASSOCIATION Honorary President 31 THE SECRETARY’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE JOHN FOSTER DULLES, Secretary of State 35 REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT THE 1954 Honorary Vice-Presidents THE UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE HONOR AWARDS CEREMONY THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE 38 JOURNAL PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST THE COUNSELOR THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE 44 DOCUMENTS IN THE JOHN PATON DAVIES, JR., ROBERT D. MURPHY, President CASE LOY W. HENDERSON, Vice-President BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 51 SECTION 517 APPOINTMENTS board of directors 58 ADDRESSES OF FORMER FOREIGN SERVICE PER¬ OUTERBRIDGE HORSEY, Chairman SONNEL RETIRED OR RESIGNED AFTER FIFTEEN PARKER T. HART, Vice-Chairman HARRY A. MCBRIDE OR MORE YEARS OF SERVICE WILLIAM C. BURDETT, JR., Secretary-Treasurer departments CHRISTOPHER A. SQUIRE Alternates 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS WALTER MCCONAUGHY 16 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart STERLING COTTRELL, Assistant Sec.-Treas. DAVID LINEBAUCH 21 NEWS TO THE FIELD by Lois Perry Jones FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM ANNE W. MERIAM 32 SERVICE GLIMPSES journal editorial board 34 EDITORIALS RAY L. THURSTON, Chairman The Davies Case CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. 36 NEWS FROM THE FIELD EDMUND GULLION RICHARD A. POOLE 42 THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. deWolf, Editor EDWARD W. MULCAHY Katherine 0. West George A. Codding, Jr. EDWARD P. MONTGOMERY Stephen P. Dorsey Ben F. Dixon JOSEPH PALMER, 2nd 51 AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS Lois PERRY JONES, Managing Editor GEORGE BUTLER, Business Manager 52 IN MEMORIAM JANE D. FISHBURNE, Circulation Manager and Editorial Assistant 53 MARRIAGES The AMERICAN FOREION SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an 57 BIRTHS unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the 64 FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 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 64 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the Service. The FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL is not official and material appearing herein represents only personal opinions, and is not intended in any way to indicate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. COVER PICTURE: “The Madonna of Humility” The Editors will consider all articles submitted. was painted about 1435 by Fra Giovanni da If accepted, the author will be paid a minimum of one cent a word on publication. Photographs ac¬ Fiesole, better known as Fra Angelico, owing to companying articles will, if accepted, be purchased Iris mild spirit and ethereal colors. The title at one dollar each. Five dollars is paid for cover “Madonna of Humility” is applied to representa¬ pictures. Reports from the Field, although not paid for, are eligible for each month’s $15 Story-of-the- tions of the Virgin seated on the ground, a sym¬ Month Contest. bolism connected with Luke I, 46: “For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.” Copyright, 1954, by the American Foreign Service Association. The picture is part of the Mellon Collection at Issued monthly at the rate of $3.00 a year, 25 cents the National Gallery of Art, Washington. 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. Pseudonyms may be used only if your letter includes your correct name and address. DAVIES ACTION USURPATION OF ’46 ACT? Arlington, Virginia November 7, 1954 To THE EDITORS, FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: I am concerned by the implications of the dismissal of John Paton Davies on the ground of “lack of judgment, discretion and reliability.” I shall attempt no defense of Mr. Davies, because I do not know him personally; how¬ ever, his competence and value to the Foreign Service have been evidenced by his distinguished record and by the praise of Walter Bedell Smith, George Kennan, and other eminent men qualified to pass judgment upon him through personal knowledge of his work. What I wish to call to your attention is the incongruity of this dismissal—based on the finding of a security hearing board which specifically absolved Mr. Davies of any taint of disloyalty or pro-communism; apparently this board did not even find that Mr. Davies was a “security risk” in the usual present-day sense of those words, since there is no mention of such a finding in the press reports of the case. It would seem, therefore, that the security board has usurped the functions of the Board of the Foreign Service, SAFE transportation for your valuables, whether your as set up by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, and that Mr. transfer orders read Bangkok or Belfast. Davies’ dismissal is based on the recommendation of a • your possessions are wrapped and readied for board of outsiders having no connection with the Foreign overseas shipment by experts — handled with Service, although the Foreign Service Act makes specific conscientious care, both at home and abroad — provision for hearings by the Board of the Foreign Service fully insured at nominal extra cost. before an officer may be separated from the Service either • modern, fireproof storage in our extensive for unsatisfactory performance of duty (Section 637) or for Washington warehouses protects the things you misconduct or malfeasance (Section 638). leave behind. If this provision of the Foreign Sendee Act has been • water-tight, theft-proof steel lift vans for ship¬ superseded by later legislation, I think the Service should be board are available for maximum security. Where duly informed, and I suggest that you make an inquiry steel is impractical, strong wooden lift vans arc along this line and print your findings in the JOURNAL. If tailored to the dimensions of your shipment, re¬ Sections 637 and 638 have not been superseded by Con¬ main your property at your new post. gressional legislation, then it seems to me Mr. Davies has • don’t concern yourself at moving and storage time grounds for legal action to obtain restoration to duty until —leave it to Merchants. he shall have been granted a hearing by the Board of the Telephone EXecutive 3-7770 Foreign Service, and the unsatisfactory performance of his "Over 65 Years of Quality Service” duties (or his misconduct or malfeasance) shall have been established at such a hearing. Mr. Davies has stated that he will not contest the decision of Secretary Dulles, but perhaps he will change his mind , 1 when he realizes how much it means to his colleagues to 91(c iclianfc> maintain the principles of a career service as set up in the Foreign Service Act.