I 9L AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL VOL. XII JULY, 1935 No IT'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME /-bum While we’ve never seen the statistics, we’ll wager fast in your room, it quietly appears (with a flower and there’s no home in the country staffed with such reti¬ the morning paper on the tray). If you crave in-season nues of valets and butlers, chefs and secretaries, maids or out-of-season delicacies, you'll find them in any of and men servants, as our hotel. That’s why we say the our restaurants. Prepared with finesse and served with New Yorker is "no place like home" — purposely. We finesse. You may have your railroad or air-line or theatre know that everyone secretly longs for and enjoys the tickets ordered for you and brought to you. You may luxury of perfect hotel service. And you have your shirts and suits speeded back know it is yours at the New Yorker, with¬ from laundry or valet, with buttons sewed out luxurious cost. • It is unobtrusive ser¬ 25^0 reduction on and rips miraculously mended. You may vice, too, that never gets on your nerves. to diplomatic and have all this service by scarcely lifting a fin¬ Everyone—from the doorman to the man¬ consular service ger. • You will find the Hotel New Yorker NOTE: the special rate ager—is always friendly, always helpful— reduction applies only conveniently located, its staff pleasantly at¬ to rooms on which the tentive, and your bill surprisingly modest. but never effusive. If you want a lazy break¬ rate is $4 a day or more. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE . NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Company, Inc. • Ralph Hitz, President OTHER HOTELS UNDER SAME DIRECTION: HOTEL LEXINGTON, NEW YORK • NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI • BOOK-CADI LLAC, DETROIT • THE ADOLPHUS, DALLAS • HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL CONTENTS COVER PICTURE Peasants of Mezokovesd. Hungary WOODWARD & LOTHROP I See also page 388) "A Store Worthy of The Nation’s Capital” THE STARS AND STRIPES IN JAPAN 10th, 11th, F, and G Streets By Harry Van Demark 373 WASHINGTON DIPLOMACY LOOKS UP By Richard Southgate and Monroe W. Blake ... 376 THE AMERICAN STUDENT INTERPRETER CORPS IN CHINA By Mahlon Fay Perkins 380 BIG GAME FISHING IN MADEIRA By R. W. Krohn 384 TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 388 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 389 NEWS FROM THE FIELD 392 ELECTION OF OFFICERS, AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 394 BOOKS 395 FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES ..... ... 396 MARRIAGES, BIRTHS 398 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CHANGES 398 SERVICE VISITORS 399 FIFTY YEARS IN THE DESPATCH AGENCY 400 Make \o Mistake FOREST SONG (Poem) —it is the costume slip that "makes” the By Mariquita Villard 405 frock—and when you have once known the perfection of beautifully cut, beautifully tail¬ SECRETARY HULL WINS SOUTH AMERICAN ored costume slips—it is difficult to be without GOOD WILL 408 them. But wherever you live—you can have these "perfect” BRYN MAWR COSTUME BURMA’S NEW YEAR SLIPS—the fabric a pure-dye crepe Dasche— By Winfield H. Scott 412 made on an alternating bias cut which gives them their "fit”—with 27-inch shadow-proof panel—double-lock-stitched seams which pre¬ DEPARTMENT OF STATE ( Photograph) 414 vent ripping. Medium or longer lengths— blush rose or swan white—sizes 32 to 44. THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION (Verse) By Thomas D. Bowman ... 414. $2-95 A. DESERT IDYL (Verse) By I. M. W 424 Simply write us giving size, length, color preference—you will receive our most prompt attention. HOSIERY, AISLE 19, FIRST FLOOR Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 369 JHE /^MERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL arid ^N'lde SERVICE J hrough its world¬ wide organization of Chevrolet assembly plants, sales Chevrolet PSrucks offices, distributors (Pontiac and d ealers, General 0 Immobile Motors is in a unique (Bu.ick position to facilitate Cadillac delivery and subsequent Pda Salle service on its products in Q JP C trucks any part of the world. Opel (Blitz Cdrucks GENERAL MOTORS EXPORT COMPANY 1 775 BROADWAY ^aaxhall NEW YORK CITY (Bedford ‘Cruchs 370 JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL To Patronize Our cA dvertisers Is to Insure a digger and better Journal for Our Service. Thoughts of INDEX OF ADVERTISERS WASHINGTON American Security and Trust Company .... 397 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba 423 Calvert School 411 Chase National Bank 419 Continental Hotel—Paris 423 FOREIGN Service Crillon, Hotel—Paris 423 Officers Have A Particular Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest 423 Interest In The Many Federal Storage Company 406 Activities of Government. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co _ 372 France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris .— 423 General Motors Export Co...- 370 • When next you visit Giro Sales & Service, Inc — — 418 The Capital, stay at the insti¬ Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company 401 tution where international per¬ Grace, W. R„ and Company 417 Gudo Bros. Co 420 sonages reside and great events occur. Harris and Ewing 418 Hungaria Hotel—Budapest ..._ 423 Kressmann, Ed., & Co., Bordeaux 423 Single Rooms from $4 Le Boissy D’Anglas Restaurant—Paris . 423 Double Rooms from $6 Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co. 398 Martinique Hotel 409 Subject to a Diplomatic Mayflower Hotel 371 Discount Merchants Transfer and Storage Company — 421 -Montgomery Ward & Co _ 407 Motion Picture Producers and Distrib. of America Inc. 409 Munson S.S. Lines . 409 National Geographic Magazine 403 MR. R. L. POLUO, New England Mutual Life Insurance Co 398 Manager New Yorker Hotel II Cover Pagani’s Restaurant-—London 423 Palace-Ambassadeurs I Intel—Rome 423 Pan-American Airways, Inc 404 Plaza Hotel 399 Powhatan Hotel 419 Rockefeller Center III Cover Sapp, Earl W., C.L.U 398 Savoy-Plaza Hotel 399 Sea Captains’ Shop, The—Shanghai 423 Security Storage Company of Washington 397 Socony-Vacuutn Oil Co., Inc 415 Strasbourg, Restaurant Brasserie de—Marseilles 423 Tyner, Miss E. J 418 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company 410 United Fruit Company 405 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 417 MAYFLOWER United States Lines 405 WASHINGTOHD.C. von Zielinski, Carl M. .1 418 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover Willard Hotel 404 Woodward and Lothrop 369 Wrigley’s 417 371 [HE AMERICAN pOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL liiuniii l" ■ SPELLS SAFETY AND LONGER MILEAGE TO mm MOTORISTS EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT the entire world, on every highway and byway, the name Firestone on a tire stands for safety, greater dependability, and longer mileage. There are two reasons for the superiority of the new Firestone High Speed Tire. One is Gum-Dipping, the patented Firestone process by which every cord in every ply is soaked and coated in pure liquid rubber, eliminating frictional heat, the chief cause of tire failure. The other reason is the patented Firestone construction feature — two extra plies of Gum-Dipped cords under the tread. 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JULY, 1935 The Stai •s and Stripes in Japan By HARRY VAN DEMARK FOR t w o hundred 1 as much as those of years before Com¬ the forbidder. modore Matthew Cal- In the course of visit¬ braith Perry took the ing Japan, foreigners Stars and Stripes to Ja¬ learned to desire pos¬ pan, the gates of that session of some of the ancient land had been things they observed closed with a warning, and to intrude them¬ saying, in effect, to for¬ selves more and more eigners : upon the lives of the “So long as the sun natives. If. on the other shall warm the earth, hand, their purpose was let no Christian be so trade, they usually dis¬ hold as to come to Ja¬ covered before long the pan; and let all know necessity of establishing that the King of Spain trading posts and gain¬ himself, or the Chris¬ ing a definite foothold tian’s God, or the great in the country. God of all, if he violate In 1638 Japan cut this command, shall herself off from the Oc¬ pay for it with his cident with the excep¬ head.” tion of a slender thread And then the stern of connection with the old monarch of the Dutch, who it is said American Navy, the thought were hea¬ steamed up the Bay of then, and so apt to be Uraga, his four ships COMMODORE MATTHEW CAI.BRAITH PERRY more pleasing than the whipping the waves At the Time of His Expedition to Japan. Sketched from Occidental Christians. with their noisy paddle- an Old Print. The operation was wheels. comparatively simple. The cordial relations between the United States The rule of the Japanese Shogun Iyeyasu pre¬ and Japan, which have increased year by year, in pared them for it. This great leader established spite of apprehensions felt at times, had their be¬ for his people an existence that had as its prin¬ ginning when Commodore Perry opened relations. cipal object the prevention of change. The reasons for the setting up of the forbidding But besides the mode of living and habit of legend, which unlike the Occidental warning, “No thought which developed under the sumptuary laws Admittance,” meant what it said, reflect the un¬ of the Shoguns, the motive of self-preservation was welcome habits of the forbidden foreigner almost largely responsible for Japanese insistence on a 373 foreign exclusion act.