CJL AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL DECEMBER, 1944 i ,-*V i i* ■ i SMB It gives us special satisfaction to supply I. W. Harper Whiskey to men and women in America’s foreign service. We are proud to serve you, and we value highly the example you set for your guests. For these reasons alone, you can depend on our safeguarding I. W. Harper’s unexcelled taste and quality. Cost is never consulted in making this superb whiskey. It’s made for you to pour with pride and drink with pleasure. Distributed overseas by SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION THERE ARE NO FINER WHISKIES THAN AMERICAN WHISKIES CONTENTS (DECEMBER, 1944) Page BARR SERVICE Cover picture: Alaska Highway in Rugged Country Thirty Years of Continuous Service to Exporters and Importers A Reserve Corps for the Foreign Service? 651 By Stephen P. Dorsey Opening of the Paris Embassy—photos 655 International Before the Joint Survey Group 656 SHIPPING AGENTS Remarks of Robert J. Watt Poem 657 FOREIGN FREIGHT FORWARDERS By Irene Murphy FREIGHT AND CUSTOM HOUSE Annual Greetings front the President and the Secretary of State 658-9 BROKERS The Oil Shipper Case 660 INSURANCE By William N. Fraleigh • Letters to the Editors 664 BARR SHIPPING COMPANY Editors’ Column 666 is able to help its clients achieve that most Association Reception for Mr. Byington 667 important factor in international trade— mutual understanding and confidence be¬ Joel Barlow, Diplomat, Poet, Philosopher 669 tween seller and buyer. By Harry Van Demark For thirty years BARR SHIPPING COM¬ News from the Field 670 PANY has dealt with exporters and import¬ ers in a score of foreign countries, and The Bookshelf 672 experience is a good teacher. Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor In the export business, perhaps more than Press Comment 674 in any other, it is fundamentally true that: A Century of Progress 675 GOODWILL is an asset By Arthur C. Frost Whose Market Value Never Fluctuates Meet the Magdalena 676 By Jean Ogletree On request, we will mail you a copy of a booklet Service Glimpses 679 containing American Foreign Trade Definitions. FSOs and Employees Now in Military Service.. 682 Retired Foreign Service Officers 686 Foreign Service Educational Foundation 689 BARR SHIPPING African Language 702 COMPANY Visitors 707 HARRY K. BARR, President 25 BROADWAY NEW YORK 4, N. Y. Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as CABLE: —All Codes —BARRSHIPCO second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. DECEMBER, 1944 645 tei TH\ BONDS f¥FO/TM/CTORY Your Chesterfield Santa Claus reminding you that at Christmastime when you get together the best of everything for real enjoyment... the cigarette that Satisfies belongs on top. 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For this project the skill of Westinghouse has gone into the construction of 10 powerful elec¬ tric locomotives, as well as the switching equipment for the entire project. 0 Throughout the world, not only in railways, airports and factories, but also in homes, the benefits of this same skill are evident. The reputation of Westinghouse as a maker of fine electrical equipment, from lamps to locomotives, is firmly established. Westinghouse Electric International Company, 40 Wall Street, New York 5, U. S. A. Westinghouse 648 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES AMERICAN EASTERN The following changes have occurred in the American Foreign Service since October 7, 1944: Ware Adams of Savannah, Georgia, now assigned to the TRADING & SHIPPING C0.,S.A.E. Department of State, has been designated Foreign Service Officer assigned to the Staff of the United States Political Alexandria and Suez (Egypt) Adviser on German Affairs, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, now at London, England. Branches or Agents in: Edward Anderson of Jacksonville, Florida, American Con¬ sul at Dublin, Ireland, has been designated American Alexandria, Egypt Jaffa, Palestine Consul at Antwerp, Belgium. Cairo, Egypt Jerusalem, Palestine William Belton of Portland, Oregon, American Vice Port Said, Egypt Haifa, Palestine Consul at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, has been desig¬ Suez, Egypt Beirut, Lebanon nated Third Secretary of Embassy and American Vice Con¬ Port Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Iskenderon, Turkey sul at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and will serve in dual Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Damascus, Syria capacity. Djibouti, French Somaliland Ankara, Turkey John Boyd of Wesson, Mississippi, American Vice Con¬ Addis Abeba, Ethiopia Izmir, Turkey sul at Algiers, Algeria, has been designated Special As¬ Jedda, Arabia Istanbul, Turkey sistant to the American Consulate General, Marseille, Nicosia, Cyprus Valetta, Malta France. Parker W. Buhrman of Botetcourt, County, Virginia, now assigned to the Department of State, has been desig¬ nated Foreign Service Officer on the Staff of the United AMERICAN IRAQI SHIPPING CO., LTD. States Political Adviser on German Affairs, Supreme Head¬ (Only American-Owned Shipping Firm quarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, now at London, England. in Persian Gulf) Linton Crook of Anniston, Alabama, American Vice Con¬ sul at Foynes, Ireland, has been designated American Vice Consul to Rome, Italy, attached to the Office of the United Basrah and Baghdad (Iraq) States Representative on the Advisory Council for Italy. Frank Cussans of Ada, Ohio, American Vice Consul at Branches or Agents in: Geneva, Switzerland, has been designated American Vice Consul at Bordeaux, France. Baghdad, Iraq Bandar Abbas, Iran Irven M. Eitreim of Mt. Vernon, South Dakota, Third Basrah, Iraq Teheran, Iran Secretary and American Vice Consid at Ottawa, Ontario, Khorramshahr, Iran Bahrein, Bahrein Islands Canada, has been designated Third Secretary and American Bandar Shahpour, Iran RasTannurah, Saudi Arabia Vice Consul at London, England. Abadan, Iran Koweit, Arabia Herbert P. Fales of Pasadena, California, now assigned Bushire, Iran Mosul, Iraq to the Department of State, has been designated Second Secretary of Embassy and American Vice Consul at London, England, and will serve in dual capacity. Raymond F. Fernandez of Washington, D. C., now in the Department of State, has been appointed Economic Analyst and assigned to Paris, France, attached to the Office of the United States Representative, Paris, France. Oscar Frederickson of Tacoma, Washington, has been appointed American Vice Consul and Special Disbursing Agent at Algiers, Algeria, and he will serve other depart¬ ments and agencies desiring his services. George G. Fuller of Pebble Beach, California, American Consul at St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, has been designated American Consul at Antwerp, Belgium. Lawrence B. Haley, of Haleyville, Alabama, now in the Department of State, has been appointed Economic Analyst attached ot the Office of the United States Representative, Paris, France. Gerald Keith of Evanston, Illinois, American Consul at Barcelona, Spain, has been designated American