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DISCOUNT ON OVERSEAS MAIL ORDERS To the Editors, 2121 VIRGINIA AVE., N. W„ WASHINGTON, D. C. FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: (Opposite The Department of State) Some months ago you published a letter from a recently retired colleague in which he described what certainly ap¬ Phone: REpublic 1062 peared to he undue delay by the Department in handling the various administrative and financial details of the retire¬ ment procedure. The same issue carried an article by an¬ other officer who had been selected out who likewise had some comments to make on the apparently unnecessary time WHEN YOU TRAVEL lag between relinquishment of duty and final settlement of accounts. DOLLAR With these things in mind I have kept a careful record of YOU NEED INSURANCE! the unwinding of the red tape in my case. Here it is. I be¬ We Pay Claims in $ lieve it demonstrates either that the two cases mentioned above were exceptional, or that mine was, or that there has • Government Service Floaters been marked improvement in the handling of such matters in the Department. "All-Risk" Foreign and Domestic June 14 Application for voluntary retirement submitted. Coverage on Personal Property of June 28 President accepts resignation as Minister to Every Description. Hungary to take effect concurrently with retire¬ ment. • Automobile Liability Insurance July 12 Check received for salary due from last pay day Our Facilities are designed to meet at my former post to date of retirement. the legal requirements in any July 24 Check received for refund of voluntary contribu¬ country. tions to retirement and disability fund, with in¬ terest. • Marine Insurance July 25 Statement received showing calculation of re¬ Broad form including Pilferage and tirement annuity and formula for calculating Theft in most cases. income tax. July Check received for lump sum annual leave pay¬ World Wide Claims Facilities Through— ment. American Foreign Insurance Assn., New York July 31 First annuity check received, representing an¬ Royal Liverpool Croup, New York nuity for the period July 1 - July 31. 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To the Editors, FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: In a letter dated July 5, 1951 (August issue), Mr. Rich¬ It is Grace Line’s job to provide transporta¬ ard A. Johnson suggests that the low 10% selection-out rule tion service between the Americas, and for be abandoned and that in its place there be substituted lists generations it has been Grace Line’s goal to to be submitted by Selection Boards of “officers whose per¬ do this one job well. From the days of the formance is not up to the standards of the Service.” I am strongly in favor of Mr. Johnson’s suggestion. Even clipper ships, Grace Line has soughtto antici¬ within the limited range of my observation, actual experi¬ pate the growth patterns of Hemisphere ence with the rule has confirmed by conviction that it can trade with increasingly efficient facilities. operate to the detriment of the best interests of our Gov¬ Today, Grace Line’s fleet of fine modern ernment and the Service. Furthermore, having served on one of the Selection Boards I have no doubt that as a practi¬ "Santas,” operating on regular schedules, cal matter they can conscientiously and fairly prepare lists of provide a dependability of service which has the kind Mr. Johnson has in mind. won the confidence of importers and trav¬ C. W. GRAY.* elers. By laboring to do a good job in one Washington, D.