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Cables: Studebaker 2 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL published monthly by THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION NOVEMBER 1953 Volume 30, Number 11 CONTENTS page 14 REGISTER OF RETIRED OFFICERS 24 ASSIGNMENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS by William Sanders THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 28 INFORMATION ACTIVITIES AND THE Honorary President FOREIGN SERVICE by Lewis E. Gleeck, Jr. JOHN FOSTER DULLES, Secretary oj State CAMELS, CONSULS, AND CONFUSION Honorary Vice-Presidents 32 THE UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE b* Robert E. Fuerst THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE 34 ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT PAYS ITS WAY THE COUNSELOR by Harold Sims THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOHN D. HICKERSON, President 39 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING EDWARD T. WAILES, Vice-President BARBARA P. CHALMERS, Executive Secretary 40 FSO JUNIOR by Mary Merchant board of directors .52 AUTOMOBILE AND HOUSEHOLD INSURANCE ANDREW B. FOSTER, Chairman V. LANSING COLLINS, JR., Vice-Chairman 54 ADDRESSES OF RETIRED FOREIGN SERVICE STEPHEN WINSHIP, Secretary-Treasurer PERSONNEL TYLER THOMPSON PARKER T. HART 64 REPORTS PRESENTED AT ANNUAL MEETING Alternates PHILIP W. BONSAL ROBERT F. WOODWARD WILLIAM C. BURDETT, JR. departments MISS MARGARET P. HAYS, Assistant Sec.-Treas. ROLLIE H. WHITE, JR. 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS journal editorial board 18 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO by James B. Stewart RAY L. THURSTON, Chairman 23 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT by Lois Perry Jones LOUIS J. HALLE, JR. CHARLES F. KNOX, JR. 36 SERVICE GLIMPSES EDMUND GULLION RICHARD A. POOLE 38 EDITORIALS LEE E. METCALF Love and the Foreign Service You Can’t Take It With You LOIS PERRY JONES, Managing Editor GEORGE BUTLER, Business Manager 56 THE BOOKSHELF—Francis C. deWolf, Review Editor EDWIN C. RENDALL, Circulation Manager Francis Colt deWolf Earl E. Huyck MARY MERCHANT, Editorial Assistant Robert J. Boylan The AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is an 66 IN MEMORIAM unofficial and voluntary association of the members, active and retired, of The Foreign Service of the 72 FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES United States and the Department of State. The As Bociation was formed for the purpose of fostering 72 BIRTHS AND DEATHS esprit de corps among members of the Foreign Service and to establish a center around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the 72 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS improvement of the Service. The FORBION SERVICE JOURNAL is not official and material appearing herein represents only personal opinions, and is not intended in any way to indicate the official views of the Department of State or of the Foreign Service as a whole. The Editors will consider all articles submitted. COVER PICTURE: This sculptured stone figure repre¬ If accepted, the author will be paid a minimum of sents one of the hundreds of huge demons (Asuras one cent a word on publication. Photographs ac¬ in Cambodian terminology) which line one side of companying articles will, if accepted, be purchased at one dollar each. Five dollars is paid for cover the Causeway of Giants, across from the demi-gods pictures. Reports from the Field, although not paid on the other, and silently guard the approaches to for, are eligible for each month's $15 Story-of-the* the five gateways of Angkor Thom (Great City). Month Contest. Built in the northern part of Cambodia by ancienl Khmer kings of the eleventh and twelfth Centuries Copyright, 1953, by the American Foreign Service Association. (A.D.), Angkor Thom was at one time the capital of Issued monthly at the rate of $3.00 a year, 2.5 cents the Kingdom. The principal monument of the city, a copy, by the American Foreign Service Association, the temple of Bayon, has been described by James A. 1908 G Street, N. W„ Washington, D, C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Washington, Michener as “the most perfect sight in all Asia.” D. 0., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Photo courtesy oj the Embassy oj Cambodia. Printed in D.S.A. by Monumental Printing Com¬ pany, Baltimora. UJUJO-VA. -k ★ ■k * Pseudonyms may be used only if your letter includes your correct * * name and. address. -X * * * AT HOME, ABROAD -X * Chevy Chase 15, Md. ■X * X * August 13, 1953 * * To the Editors, -X * FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL: * MANILA * My husband is “available for transfer,” and I know when * Stopover at Honolulu * he tells me the exciting news, the name of our next post, my * * first question will be, “Do we have to live in a furnished * * BANGKOK house?” How I dread the possibility of having to store our -X * -X * collection of household goods to occupy government fur¬ -X CALCUTTA * nished quarters! -X + We have enjoyed so much the last three years, living in -X HONG KONG * the United States — having our own house, participating in -X * community activities, voting for the first time, having our -X TOKYO * son in a fine public school, seeing him develop in Cub -X * Scouts and the YMCA, living nearer to our parents and -X * old friends. Naturally it is difficult to leave the United -X * -X States, especially for our son, but life in the Foreign Service Fly there by PAL — * seems so worthwhile and interesting that we wouldn’t con¬ -X favorite airline of * -X * sider any other. However, it does mean much to us to be -X experienced travelers * able to make our home abroad with our own belongings — -X Luxurious, Dependable, DC-6B * the bookcases my husband has made, the old chairs we -X or DC-6 * found in New England and spent so many hours refinishing, * sleeper planes * the Chinese tables my husband’s aunt brought from China * From San Francisco to * years ago, the alpaca rugs from Peru. Each family has its -X Manila, via Honolulu * * own favorites which reflect its taste and background. After Connections to Singapore, * -X arriving at a new post, whether in the tropics or eighty-five Indonesia and Australia * -X * hundred feet above sea level, we have felt at home once we -X To London, via Bangkok, Calcutta, * were out of a hotel and had unpacked our furniture and -X Karachi, Tel Aviv, Rome, Madrid, * hung the pictures and curtains in the new house. It reflected -X (alternate flights via Zurich * our personalities from my husband’s Shopsmith to the red and Hamburg] -X * linen on the arm chairs. I believe that living with our own -X * ROUTE OF THE Orient-^Star^ familiar belongings regardless of the location of our house -X * has helped to give our son a feeling of stability and family -X * -X * background, so essential for children, and to compensate for -X * the lack of a permanent home in the United States. -X * Aside from the loss to the individual family of not being -X * able to have a house that serves its particular size and -X hobbies from Junior’s ping pong table to Mother’s piano -X * or Father’s collection of books or tools, I think that the -X * Foreign Service loses this opportunity for people in other -X * countries to see different kinds of American homes reflecting -X * -X the varied backgrounds and interests of our people. From SPANNING % OF THE WORLD * -X * the propaganda standpoint it seems essential that the homes -X Consult your Travel Agent or * where we entertain abroad should be as individual as pos¬ -X * sible, eschewing the impersonality inevitable no matter how -X * competent Foreign Buildings Operations are in selecting -X furnishings. -X * I realize that furnishing houses abroad for foreign service -X em * Pm Li ppm Ain Ims personnel is intended to reduce the costs of transporting -X * * SAN FRANCISCO • NEW YORK * personal effects. At present it doesn’t necessarily do so, as a * WASHINGTON, D.C. • CHICAGO family occupying furnished quarters may ship at govern¬ * LOS ANGELES • HONOLULU £ ment expense its effects to the post for storage if there are THE TIS5DT AUTOMATIC NAVIGATOR WATCH IS THE OFFICIAL TIME PIECE OF such facilities there.