EL SALVADOR COUNTRY READER TABLE OF CONTENTS Gerald A. Drew 1937 Temporary Duty, San Salvador Murat Williams 1947 1949 Deputy Chief of Mission, San Salvador Angier Biddle Duke 1952 1953 Ambassador, El Salvador Eugene F. ,arst 1955 19-. Public Affairs 1fficer, 2SIS, San Salvador Peter M. Cody 1957 1959 Pro4ect 1fficer, 2SAID, San Salvador Murat Williams 19-1 19-4 Ambassador, El Salvador David Rybak 19-3 19-- Peace Corps 6olunteer, San Ildefonso, El Salvador 7eonard 8. Saccio 19-3 19-- Deputy Chief of Mission, San Salvador Richard A. Smith 19-4 19-- Agricultural Attach9, Agriculture Department, San Salvador 8ames 7. Morad 19-5 19-8 Information 1fficer, 2SIS, San Salvador A. Ellen Shippy 19-- 19-8 Peace Corps 6olunteer, San Pablo Tacachico Richard S. Welton 19-- 19-8 Agricultural Attach9, FAS, San Salvador 8ack R. Binns 19-7 1971 7abor 1fficer, San Salvador Terrence George 7eonhardy 19-8 1972 Deputy Chief of Mission, San Salvador Robert S. Steven 197. 1971 1fficer in Charge of El Salvador and Honduras Affairs, Washington, DC Henry E. Catto, 8r. 1971 1973 Ambassador, El Salvador Clyde Donald Taylor 1972 1975 Economic and Commercial Section Chief, San Salvador 8ohn A. Bushnell 1977 1982 Deputy Assistant Secretary, ARA, Washington, DC Nena 6reeland 1979 1983 Evaluation 1ffice, 2SAID, Washington, DC Robert E. White 198. 1981 Ambassador, El Salvador 8on David Glassman 1981 Deputy Chief of Political Section, Mexico City, Mexico Frederic 7. Chapin 1981 Charg9 d>Affaires, San Salvador G. Philip Hughes 1981 1985 Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor to 6ice President George Bush, The White House, Washington, DC Ward Barmon 1983 1985 Economic/Commercial Counselor San Salvador 8ames F. Mack 1983 198- Political Counselor, El Salvador David R. Adams 1984 198- 1fficer for El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica, 2SAID, Washington, DC Melvin R. Chatman 1987 1994 Training 1fficer, 2SAID, San Salvador William 8effras Dieterich 1989 1992 Deputy Chief of Mission, San Salvador Alan H. Flanigan 1993 199- Ambassador, El Salvador 8ohn Helm 199- 1999 General Services 1fficer, San Salvador GERALD A. DREW Temporary Duty San Salva or (1937) Gerald A. Drew was born in San Francisco, California in 1903 .He graduated from t e University of California, Berkeley. He toured in Para, Jordan, Bolivia, and Haiti. T e following are e)cerpts from correspondence and journal entries. DREW: Safe A sound in Salvador, or around Central America with the Rover Boys. 2neventful hop over, though the pilot made me nervous by twitching and wiggling about himself. Have moved in on the CorrigansBthey say for all six weeks, but it doesn>t seem possible or fair to them. They are four, and large numbers of family and guests are on the way. Shall try to find a furnished house, and failing that, move into a boarding house. The last week or two in Tegoose were rather strenuousBCuite a few late nights. If no party, Cramp and I would manage to talk far into the night. The worst part of it was the noise. Church bells and bugles would start about five, A little but doDing between bombs etc. from then on. The present reading finds our hero pretty done in. No signs of the strenuous life here yet, so may get caught up soon. They are the most hospitable people I have known. Dr. C. A Bob 4ust out of StanfordBwere at the airfield to bring me into the 7egation. EDr. Frank Corrigan, the 2.S. minister in Salvador, was a medical doctor who served later as ambassador to Colombia and maybe elsewhere, also as an official of the World Health 1rganiDation. His son Bob, later nicknamed F,illerG Corrigan by 8erry (for being a Flady killerGI went into the Foreign Service and led us on a whirlwind tour of St. Peter>s in Rome when we were on our way through there in 1948 or J49.K LLL I am staying at the 7egation with the CorrigansBthe most delightful people you can imagine. Talk of the free and untrammeled lifeBnever a dull moment. We talk until 3 or 4 every morning. The house now holds the Doctor (Amer. MinisterI, Mrs. C., one large and two smallish sons, with a daughter and 3 school friends on their way, A plans to entertain Minister DesPortes. They believe in the more the merrier. I have been trying to move out, but am not allowed. LLL Here it is a Friday night and I am starting so early for the Sunday mail. We are preparing for the 4th of 8uly receptions, which will take up most of tomorrow, and at night the colony is having a dance at a local American boarding house. Now is my chance, as family A guests are out or in bed. Seems to be the first really free evening I have had since I arrived. Dr. A Marta are at a local production of Hamlet, which didn>t interest me at all. Two of the 8eans are out somewhere and the balance retired. Monday morn I am going down to Cutuco by rail on the Gulf of Fonseca for some fishing and to see the country. Return probably Wednesday. I may be on my way by Saturday the 1.thBa week>s head startBthough it>s not really definite yet. I really haven>t much heart for any trips. Am only anxious to get started homeward. Got a spell of work on tonight. For one thing I figured up what it will cost the government for our move and it looks like about M15... Seems a lot but the freight and furniture alone will be about M9... I still hope to collect the eCuivalent of what it would have cost if you A babes had gone to Washington from San 8ose, though... families aren>t supposed to precede their husbands A fathers. If I do it will about cover the cost of our fares across the continent. We shall have to start soon to be scrooges A count our shekels. 1n that sub4ect, how about breaking down and telling me what all doctors and hospitals are going to come to. That is, whenever you feel like devoting your thoughts to such unpleasant topicsN. 1n that sub4ect, do you think Nell is losing out up at the RiverO Do you think it would be well for me to send her a check for M5. or more to cover whatever extras may turn up, as they have a way of doing at summer resortsO 7et me know what to do. I don>t want her to be out of pocket A she must be footing bills unless you or your family have furnished funds. While it has been very niceBand inexpensiveBliving here with the Corrigans, I feel that in some ways I would have been freer to get around A make more contacts A see more if I had been out on my own. I have really learned most of my sketchy impressions of the country from Doc C. 6ery useful and all that, and I have en4oyed our long talks A the contact with him, but I feel I have learned less here than any other country. In all the confusion yesterday (SaturdayI I didn>t get back to this A now Sunday is upon us A the prexy A cabinet arrive any minute. A large party last night. Didn>t Cuite get into the swing of itBfelt the weight of my four little girls on my shoulders. The Corrigans left early and put me in charge, as it were... At breakfast a cable arrivesBI was really afraid to open it, but as it was from 8ohn saying you were fineBFwhy rush.G I told him I was planning to step up my departure A apparently it doesn>t suit him. He is definitely going to meet me in Mexico with Gretchen A I believe the Momma. LLL Monday I went down to the Gulf of Fonseca on a fishing trip. At the last minute Dr. C. didn>t go. 1ne Wilson, manager of the Rep. hereBfriend of ChittendenBgave the party. It was a nine hour trip A a pretty hot one, but we had comfortable Cuarters and good food at the end of itBCutuco, a small port consisting principally of a dock. Tuesday we spent on a launch in the gulf. I took a hand at the poles but am not a very enthusiastic fisherman. Got back yesterday afternoon. Had one night on a canvas cot A the other in a hammock. As you can imagine, the Firon manG was a bit done in. I plan no more trips now as I shall be having plenty of that by the time I reach S.F. Am shipping trunks and excess baggage by a Grace boat and traveling as light as possible. Shall address them to 2.. Pacheco Ehis parents> fine house in the Forest Hills section of San FranciscoK A then do the necessary when I find where I am to rest the head. MURAT WILLIAMS Deputy Chief of Mission San Salva or (1947.1949) Ambassador ,illiams was born and raised in -irginia and was educated at t e University of -irginia and .)ford University. After serving in t e US Navy in ,orld ,ar 00, e joined t e State Department, serving in ,as ington, D.C., w ere e worked wit t e Refugee 1elief Program, and abroad. His foreign posts include San Salvador, Buc arest, Salonika, Bern and Tel Aviv. Mr. ,illiams served as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador from 1941 to 1945. Ambassador ,illiams was interviewed by Melvin Spector in 1990.