<3L AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 19, NO. 5 JOURNAL MAY, 1942 * Behind machines in the Lycoming Division plant and behind Lycoming engines in the air, men are being trained today who will contribute to America’s victory tomorrow. Lycoming-powered BEECHCRAFT AT-10 TRAINER SXD BY BUILDS America’s Aircraft Engines...FLIES America’s Fighting Planes Our all-out-for-victory war will be won by manpower in the factory as well as in battle. That is why at the elbow Free literature on request for 50 to 175 h.p. hori¬ of each experienced workman in the Lycoming plant an zontally opposed or 220 to 300 h.p. radial engines. eager youngster is learning the skilled craftsmanship Write Dept. J52. Specify which literature desired. which has made Lycoming a synonym for dependability throughout the aviation industry. But that is not all . In military training centers and on hundreds of air¬ ports Lycoming engines power the training planes of the nation, making fighting pilots of fledglings eager for combat. The same dependable flow of power so neces¬ sary for pilot instruction today will meet the exacting requirements of private plane owners after victory is attained. Contractors to the U. S. Army and Navy LYCOMING DIVISION, THE AVIATION CORPORATION WILLIAMSPORT, PA CONTENTS Cover Picture: Soldiers on the March (See page 249) India, Past and Present By J. Bartlett Richards 245 Press Comment 249 The Strategy of Truth 250 Mission to the Free French By Laurence W. Taylor 254 Road to Damascus By Robert B. Dickie 256 American Commissioner’s Office—New Delhi By Norris S. Haselton 260 Women in the Foreign Service By Harold Nicolson 261 Indies, and influenced the history and Editors’ Column 262 destiny of the islands, and of rum. Changes in the Journal Staff 262 M v|v For his BACARDI was a new News from the Department kind of liquor . with a light¬ By Jane W ilson 263 ness and delicacy new to distillations of the cane. News from the Field 266 The Bookshelf Its fame spread . Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor 268 and wherever BACARDI traveled, it was hailed by connoisseurs Kunming Birthday as a monumental contribution to the By Caroline Service 270 art of good living. Foreign Service Changes 274 Today, we celebrate the 80th Service Glimpses 275 Anniversary of BACARDI. November—Poem SALUD! By Elizabeth Beck 283 We will be glad to facilitate shipment Letter to the Editors 283 of BACARDI to any locality not served by local agents or dealers. Rum 89 Proof. Zehn Kleine Meckerlein—Poem 286 COMPANIA "RON BACARDI," S. A. Visitors 296 Santiago de Cuba. x * * * * Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Association. Department of State, Washington, D. C. 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C. & Co., Inc 293 ★ ★ AIRPLANES and armored cars — "blitz reconnaissance cars, gas masks, seadrome lighting buggies” and barrage balloons — cruisers and buoys and hundreds of other products made from cannons—tanks and trucks—these and countless natural or synthetic rubber for the armed forces other weapons require thousands of rubber parts. of the United Nations. In addition, metallic belt links, bomb cases, shell guard facings and many And they are getting them—on or ahead of other non-rubber munitions are now in produc¬ schedule! tion. And if our country calls upon us for further Firestone plants are busily engaged in making help, it will be given cheerfully, quickly, efficiently tires of all types, bullet-resisting tubes, bullet-seal¬ and intelligently. ing fuel and oil tanks, track blocks for tanks and For War Production is First at Firestone! MILITARY TIRES * TUBES ★ GAS MASKS * TANK TRACKS ★ BULLET-SEALING CELLS PARACHUTE SEATS ★ HOSE ★ BALLOONS ★ SEA DROME LIGHTS CRASH PADS AND OTHER RUBBER AND METAL PRODUCTS OLD Mother India again sees the tide of in¬ ways secured India from foreign invaders.” Akbar, vasion rising and wonders whether it will w'ho held that custody, was not navy-minded and, in reach her shores. Already Japanese troops are in his day, had no need to be. possession of Indian territory, the Andaman The first invaders to pass those portals probably Islands, about 600 miles across the Bay of Ben¬ came about 4,000 years ago and it is believed gal from Calcutta. Burma, where fierce fighting that they found a fairly well developed civiliza¬ is now going on, was until recently a part of In¬ tion. Not much is known about them, except that dia and adjoins the Indian province of Assam, al¬ they were Indo-Aryans, possibly from Persia. Their though hills and heavy jungles make access diffi¬ influence on the life of India has never been cult. Anxious ears, turned equalled by that of any sub¬ toward the east, can already sequent invaders, however. hear the roar of the hostile They are responsible for waves. the religious and social sys¬ To ageless Mother India, tems prevailing among the invasion would be no new great majority of the peo¬ experience. Only in the di¬ ple of India today. The rection from which it caste system was developed comes does this new threat by them, apparently after break with tradition. In the their arrival in India. By past, the turbulent North¬ the sixth century B. C. it west Frontier has been the wTas so crystallized in the gateway through which the abuses of orthodoxy as to invading forces have flow'ed give impetus to the emer¬ onto the great plains of gence of two great reforma¬ northern India. The princi¬ tory religions, Buddhism pal secretary of the great and Jainism, and it was so Mogul Emperor. Akbar, ob¬ strongly entrenched as to served in the sixteenth cen¬ survive both of those re¬ tury that “The wise of an¬ ligions after a struggle sev¬ cient times considered Ka¬ eral centuries long. bul and Kandahar as the Alexander the Great, twin gates of Hindostan, whose cavalry blitzkrieg in the one leading to Turkes¬ 326 B. C. quickly overcame tan and the other to Persia. the Maginot Lines of ele¬ The custody of those high¬ phants draw'll up by several MAY, 1942 245 native princes, did not invade a united India. North¬ Maurya and his son appear to have had character¬ ern India was at that time made up of a number of istics that would make them seem not entirely ar¬ relatively small principalities, some of which cooper¬ chaic in the present day.