qL AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE VOL. 19, NO. 3 JOURNAL MARCH, 1942 *» SUPER Performance for the SUPER Cruiser Lycoming leadership in building engines for Free literature on request for SO to 175 h.p. hori¬ zontally opposed or 220 to 300 h.p. radial engines. America’s training planes is important to Write Dept. J32. Specify which literature desired. civilian as well as military aviation. In the Piper Super Cruiser the 100 h.p. Lycoming horizontally opposed engine provides depend¬ able performance for pilot training, instru¬ ment instruction and Civil Air Patrol flying. CONTENTS MARCH, 1942 Cover Picture: Conning Tower of a Dutch Warship in the Pacific Ocean. (See page 173) The Netherlands East Indies at War By Dr. H. van Houten 125 A good neighbour... Rio Conference of Foreign Ministers—Photos.... 130 Selected Questions from the Third General For¬ and a good mixer! eign Service Examination of 1941 131 Townsend Harris Helped Open Japan to Trade.. 135 The Air Training Plan of the British Common¬ Si senor! For BACARDI is not only an wealth outstanding example of Pan-American By an Officer of the R.C.A.F 136 solidarity in the realm of good taste, Mural Paintings at the Mexican Embassy in but the most congenial and versatile Washington—Photos 140 of all the great liquors of the world. Editors’ Column Amendment of Civil Service Retirement Act 142 It mixes readily and superbly with all fine ingredients, from the sparkling News from the Department By Jane Wilson 143 simplicity of a highball to the compli¬ Organization of the Department of State 145 cated art of a Coronation Cocktail... News from the Field 146 And it gives a new thrill to the old The Bookshelf drinks with its unique, delectable Francis C. de Wolf, Review Editor 148 flavour. — Diamond Cut Diamond __reCt when By Arthur Garrets 150 Y0U0re0lW BTcARD' u Uncle Sam’s Trouble Shooters y° “ auesfs are olw°ys a d y By Frances Russell 152 fettered" °d BBACARDI reputation has en¬ oyed he h 9 Foreign Service Changes 154 i ' ,h(h : mas. exacting omong , bolh Con- connoisseur e quarters Service Glimpses 155 *inen,sfo::;er *°i,s Promotions 156 °f ^"Lugue," and i*. Oliver Bishop Harriman Foreign Service rooth. exquisite quoh'/ Scholarship 165 I__I *o facility® We will he g iocality not In Memoriam 176 - Visitors 179 dealers. COMPANIA "RON BACARDI," S. A. Issued monthly by the American Foreign Service Association. Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class Santiago de Cuba matter at the Post Office in Washington, D. 0., under the act of March 3, 1879. Schenley Import Corp., N. Y. Copr. 1941 MARCH, 1942 121 The Liberty Fleet standardized for fast production adopts standard Radio Unit by ' IT&T New Idea in Marine Radio Design Speeds Installation . Saves Space Off the ways ... and on the way, compact marine radio telegraph go America’s Liberty Ships . unit supplies all needed com¬ miie after mile of new cargo munications facilities. vessels, stretching off endlessly This all-in-one radio unit makes down the ocean roadway toward it possible to do at the factory America's allies and united vic¬ practically all wiring and other tory. And this vast Armada of work usually done aboard ship. Liberty's Arsenal is a credit to Installed in one-fifth the time the shipbuilders’ craft. normally required — practically Every cubic foot has been made ready to tune in and plug in—it The compact, all-in-one radio to account for itself against the was designed and manufactured unit designed and manufac¬ tured for the Maritime Com¬ grim demand for precious cargo for the first 312 Liberty Ships mission by I. T. &T. 's subsidi¬ space. For example, in the radio by I. T. & T.’s subsidiary, The ary, The Federal Telegraph room, not eight or ten, but one Federal Telegraph Company. Company. INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION 67 Broad Street, New York, N. Y. 122 THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL INDEX FOR ADVERTISERS * —★ American Export Lines — 163 American Tobacco Co. — 159 American Security and Trust Company.— 153 Cttiled Aviation Corporation, The II COVER Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba 121 to the Colors! Beverly Hills Hotel 173 Breewood, Engravers 179 Calvert School 178 AMERICA’S three greatest liners, the Chase National Bank 176 . Washington, Manhattan and America, Clark, Horace F., & Son 178 are now serving their country as Navy auxiliaries. Federal Storage Company — 169 Fessenden School, The — 175 Before being called to the Colors, these General Motors Overseas Operations 172 three American flag liners were the largest, Grace Line 180 fastest and most luxurious passenger ships ever built in this country. Glide’s 179 International Telephone & Telegraph Co 122 When our Government called its nationals Latin American Institute 178 home from danger zones in Europe and Mayflower Hotel 177 the Orient, thousands of Americans re¬ turned to the United States aboard these Moore-McCormack Lines 171 ships. 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Of these islands, Java, though once called the Netherlands East Indies a beau¬ not the largest is the most important with a popula¬ tiful necklace of emeralds wound round the Equator. tion of over forty million inhabitants. Java with Indeed the three thousand islands of this fantastical¬ 821 persons to the square mile is one of the most ly wealthy empire can be compared with emeralds. densely populated areas on the globe. Java is the Natural wealth and the inborn happiness of their heart of the Indies and the center of the Dutch ad¬ unpretentious inhabitants, coupled with more than ministration. Its large cities are Batavia, the seat three centuries of excellent colonial administration, of the Government (population 500,000) ; Soura- have made this part of the Kingdom of the Nether¬ baya, the greatest naval base of the East Indies lands one of the most delightful regions of the en¬ (population 500,000) and Bandoeng, where the tire world. headquarters of the Army are established. Java is The Netherlands East Indies form the bridge be¬ a highly cultivated island where, notwithstanding tween the Asiatic and Australian continents. With the tropical surroundings, living conditions are good the exception of the northern part of Borneo and for Europeans. Java, for instance, has more than the eastern parts of Timor and New-Guinea the en¬ 13,000 miles of hard surface highways. Railroad tire territory is part of the Kingdom of the Nether¬ tracks amount to more than 3,000 miles between lands. Since the Dutch constitution was changed Batavia and Sourabaya and air-conditioned trains in 1922, the East Indies are no more a colony but run at a speed of more than 65 miles per hour. an actual part of the Netherlands just as Hawaii is Numerous vacation resorts are in the mountains, a part of the United States.