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Barrett C i ARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD ARCHIE BOLSTER. Chairman AMBLER MOSS, Vice Chairman CUNT E. SMITH OTHER FEATURES: Poems, by P. B., page 2; T he Rolling Think M. TERESITA CURRIE Tank, by James H. Webb, page 4; Perahera, by Martin T. JAMES D. PHILLIPS JOHN D. STEMPEL Hutchinson, page 10: Some American Poets, page 42. MICHAEL P. CANNING JOURNAL SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Editor DONALD DRESDEN. Associate Editor DEPARTMENTS MCIVER ART & PUBLICATIONS, INC., Art Direction 36 The Bookshelf ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES JAMES C. SASMOR. 295 Madison Ave.. New York N.Y. 10017 (212) 532-6230 50 Letters to the Editor ALBERT D. SHONK CO.. 681 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. 94105 (415) 392-7144 JOSHUA B. POWERS, LTD., 5 Winsley Street, London 55 AFSA News W. 1. 01-580 6594/8. International Representatives. ©American Foreign Service Association, 1971. The Foreign Service Journal is published twelve times a year by the American Foreign Service Association, 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20037. PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: David G. DuLavey, cover, Second-class postage paid at Washington. D. C. “Nefta °asis”; Richard H. Sanger, photographs, pages 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19; Henry J. Paoli, “Statuary Rape,” page 38; S. L. Printed by Monumental Printing Co., Baltimore Nadler, “Life and Love in the Foreign Service,” page 52. THE FOREICN SERVICE JOURNAL is the journal of professionals in foreign affairs, published twelve times a vear bv the American Foreign Service Association, a non-profit organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for International Development or the United States Government as a whole. Membership in the AMERICAN FOREICN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is open to the professionals in foreign affairs serving overseas or in Washington, as well as to persons having an active interest in, or close association with, foreign affairs. Dues are $30 annually for members earning over $15,000; for those earning less, dues are $15.00. For subscription to the JOURNAL, one year (12 issues); $6.00; two years, $10.00, For subscriptions going abroad, except Canada, add $1.00 annually for overseas postage. CONSTANTINE He left great things—the Church, the great ruined hall At the Forum, and his own huge marble head In the Capitol museum. Most of all, He left great marble Rome, and built instead Byzantium. And Rome behind its wall P. B. Began to cringe, delirious and scared Of fevers and the Huns, no help to call, The legions full of thugs: sick Rome lay bared To every raider greedy for the feast To every roaming kinglet with a dream JULIUS CAESAR But Constantine lay happy in the East And studied Greek, and clever things that gleam. The wind that pushes spring, sets hearts on edge The moral is that nothing stays the same; Is dangerous, is murderous; it blew He died, and hungry Goths ate Rome’s great name. Caesar to pieces. The murderers allege He sought a crown, but all that sheer crew Could only build on Brutus. Beauty’s dead SERENATA And all the Roman glory goes to rot From now, from this foul time, and what’s ahead At sixes and sevens all is calm Is only all the hate the knives begot In the Via dei Banchi Vecchi Bringing down savagery like Borgia popes No alarm of Vespas, and the bats Until the whole green world has turned to rock That soared the twilight sleep in their dirty beds; And leers and fears, and wars instead of hopes, The Counselor is sleeping frowning, And heaven is a Fiat and a cock: He dreams of office fears. The wind-of-knives that rots the hearts of men As far as Cap Gonave or Darien. Yet in Umbria the dear beeches And in Tuscany and Abruzzi the oaks Moan softly, goat-bitten but beautiful HADRIAN In the tender time of year, The first bucolic hills. For sins the stars condemned my dust to Rome. It lingers in the alley-ways and air The Counselor Though half a million suns have lit the dome Has no advice for Umbria, Beside Agrippa’s porch. But dust won’t bear No argument to stand against the mountains; The weight of feet, it swirls before the rain And rises and calls on a Cardinal In winter streets; there is no god to lose And talks of dirty creatures, But all the little people fear the pain Dirty creatures, said the girl in Grimm’s fairytale Of God, the wrath of Night, they shake their shoes Damned for dirty-mindedness. To rid me from their minds. No use; my dust But the trees wave in the winds Just giggles at the proud corrupt of Rome Inhumanly and sweet. And gvres in little circles mocking lust And life and all this show till you come home And see the sad bad citizens of Hell In caverns deeper than bad dreams can tell. 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, June, 1971 y /Uw& <7^7&"‘&KfC6'... BE DIR.OMATIC Ford Quiet speaks for itself. All it takes is one ride to Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. 20006. Phone-298-7419. put the message across: Noise is out. 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FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, June, 1971 3 ‘To what extent do Washington car pools, for example, bear the burden of an information exchange that should follow more rational paths?—Grant G. Hilliker The Rolling Thinktank: An Underappreciated Resource rA m N interesting institution recently JAMES H. WEBB, JR. to our cluster. He did so, and the came into being at Dacor House, The author retired as a FSR (USIA) first meeting of Dacor Dialogues at known as Dacor Dialogues at Twi¬ in 1967 and lives with his wife Twilight was on its way. Margot at "Telaraha” (Spanish for Madison opened the conversation light or, DDT. I was fortunate spiderweb) in Albemarle County, enough to be present late one after¬ Virginia. He worked as a part-time by wondering why greater advan¬ noon when it came into being. consultant with the Bureau of Edu¬ tage was not taken, at the close of I was mixing a small quantity of cation and Cultural Affairs through day, of this charming little sanc¬ March, 1970. dry vermouth with a large quantity tuary. The quiet surroundings were of dry gin at the Dacor bar when a ideal for relaxation; and drinks, pur¬ medium sized, undramatic but hon¬ our stimulants, and there we found chased at Washington’s rock-bottom est-looking individual possibly 20 J. Walter Madison, a middle-grade prices and stored in one’s private years my junior approached, clutch¬ USIA officer, sipping a martini. He locker, were absurdly inexpensive. ing a bottle of bourbon. He intro¬ was alone but, when invited, quite I remarked that I, too, had won¬ duced himself as Ewer Calmer, of willing to join Calmer and me. Just dered why more of Foggy Bottom’s the State Department’s Management then I saw my old friend FSO-1 toilers did not take advantage of this Staff, known bureaucratically as Sage Willoughby sitting in the ad¬ attractive hideaway. The Foreign OM/MS. At my suggestion we joining solarium, and invited him Service Club, incidentally, although moved to the library to relax with to bring his Scotch-based concoction located only a block from Main “It’s really not surprising that a great many foreign service people dip into their own pockets to be sure that Security handles their moving and storage problems. ” —consensus of many letters we have received. or most of its 80-year history, Security lias been the odds-on favorite of top U.S. Government officials, both civilian and mili¬ tary, as well as the leading diplomats of most foreign countries stationed in the Washington area.