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AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION President, PHILIP HABIB CONTENTS: October 1968 Volume 45, No. 10 First Vice President, HARRY K. LENNON 18 VIET CONG PROPAGANDA ABROAD Second Vice President, JOHN E. REINHARDT General Manager, GARDNER E. PALMER by Chester A. Bain Executive Secretary, MARGARET S. TURKEL Educational Consultant, CLARKE SLADE 22 BENEFITS AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF FOREIGN BANKS TO Personal Purchases, JEAN M. CHISHOLM DEVELOPING NATIONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS by Juan D. Sanchez Chairman, LANNON WALKER 25 THUNDER ON THE LEFT IN LATIN AMERICA Vice Chairman, THEODORE L. ELIOT, JR. Secretary-Treasurer, ROBERT T. CURRAN by Allan Evans Asst. Secretary-Treasurer, ROBERT BLACKBURN CHARLES W. BRAY 32 WRITING GRINGO FICTION ROBERT G. HOUDEK by Lawrence Marley JOHN A. MCKESSON CHARLES E. RUSHING 34 THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMON MARKET FRANK S. WILE LARRY C. WILLIAMSON by John J. Schulter JOSEPH C. SATTERTHWAITE Ambassador, Retired 36 REPEAT TO USUN FOR INFO by John M. Cates, Jr. JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman, MALCOLM MCLEAN OTHER FEATURES: Winston Churchill’s Grandfather, by Anita Leslie, Vice Chairman, S. I. NADLER ARCHIE BOLSTER page 4; The Louisiana Purchase, page 14; Elegos by Niles W. Bond, FREDERICK F. SIMMONS page 17. CHARLES A. KENNEDY HOWARD B. SCHAFFER M. VIRGINIA SCHAFER AMBLER MOSS Departments Contributing Editor, REED HARRIS 26 EDITORIALS : A Democratic 49 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO JOURNAL Discussion by Henry B. Day Editor, SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL The Challenge Beckons 51 COOK’S TOUR Managing Editor, EDYTHE O’N. PAINTER AFSA and the Election Circulation, MARGARET B. CATON by Helen K. Behrens Art Direction, 27 ASSOCIATION NEWS 52 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MCIVER ART & PUBLICATIONS INC. 31 SERVICE GLIMPSES ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES 40 THE BOOKSHELF 56 AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS SASMOR AND GUCK, INC., 295 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017 (212) 532-6230 ALBERT D. 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John Gordon Mein, Ambassador to Guatemala, was shot to death on August 28, in Guatemala City. Mr. Mein joined the Department of State in 1941 and the Foreign Marriages Service in 1942. He served at Rome, Oslo, Djakarta, BOND-SHEEHAN. Ellen Bond, daughter of FSO and Mrs. Niles Manila, and Rio de Janeiro before his appointment as W. Bond, was married to Barry Sheehan on July 29, in Ambassador to Guatemala in 1965. He received the Meri¬ Washington, D.C. torious Service Award in 1959. Ambassador Mein is sur¬ vived by his wife and three children. Mrs. Mein’s current KANELL-MAGLIOZZI. Gloria Ann Kanell was married to Ber¬ nard Magliozzi, son of FSO and Mrs. Francis N. Magliozzi, address is c/o Mrs. Harold J. Clay, 2603 Monroe St., N.E., on August 24, in Calvary Baptist Church, Torrington, Washington, D.C. 20018. Conn. NUVEEN. John Nuveen, former ECA administrator in Greece, ROSTOW-STEVENS. Jessica Rostow, daughter of Finder Secre¬ Belgium and Luxembourg, died on August 8, in Chicago. tary of State for Political Affairs and Mrs. Eugene V. Mr. Nuveen served with ECA from 1948 to 1950 and later Rostow, was married to Dana N. Stevens, on August 28, in as consultant on foreign investment to the Department of Peru, Vermont. Commerce. MARKS-LITE. Carol Sue Marks was married to FSIO Jeffrey H. ROBERTS. Alexander Chambers Roberts and Owen Winthrop Lite on July 7, in Chicago. Roberts, Jr., sons of FSO and Mrs. Owen Roberts, were MCINTOSH-TALKINGTON. Joyce Marie McIntosh, daughter of killed on August 14 in a car accident near Pensacola, Consul General and Mrs. Clarence J. McIntosh, was mar¬ Florida. The boys are survived by their parents, stationed ried to Airman First Class Steven A. Talkington, on August at the Air War College, Montgomery, Ala., and a younger 24, in Chula Vista, California. brother. VOGEL-MCNALLY. Kathleen Mary Vogel, daughter of Mr. SCOTTEN. Robert McGregor Scotten, former Ambassador to and Mrs. Frederick H. Vogel, was married to Douglas Ecuador and New Zealand, died on September 6, in William McNally, on August 10, in St. Paul’s Chapel, Barbados. Mr. Scotten joined the Foreign Service in 1916 Columbia University. Mr. Vogel is serving with AID in and served at Berlin, Madrid, Guatemala City, Paris, Saigon. Mrs. Vogel is on the staff of the American Foreign Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Asuncion, Santiago before his Service Association. appointment as minister to the Dominican Republic and Births Costa Rica in 1940. He retired in 1956. Ambassador Scotten is survived by his wife of Nelson Cay, St. Peter, ANTIPPAS. A son, Mark George, born to FSO and Mrs. Barbados, West Indies. Andrew F. Antippas, on July 30, in Bangkok. Mr. Antippas is with the Political Section of the Embassy in Saigon. SINDERSON. FSO Paul G. Sinderson died on August 10, in La Paz, Bolivia. Mr. Sinderson joined the Department of State BOWLING. A daughter, Virginia Ellen, born to FSO and Mrs. in 1947 and entered the Foreign Service in 1954. He served John W. Bowling, on August 1, in Washington. as Director of the Office of the Budget in 1964, was OPHULS. A son. Hardy, born to FSO and Mrs. William assigned to the War College in 1965 and was serving with Ophuls, on July 30, in New Haven, Conn. the Inspection Corps at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife of 5913 Cheshire Dr., Bethesda, Md. Deaths 20014, and four sons. FALK. Elmer M. Falk, director of the Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs, Department of State, died on August 21, SOLLENBERGER. Roger Hafner Sollenberger, son of Mr. and at his home, 7828 Lee Ave., Alexandria. After service in the Mrs. Howard E. Sollenberger, was drowned on September Army, Mr. Falk went to Salzburg in 1945 for UNRRA. He 1, while swimming in the ocean at Taiwan. He is survived later joined the International Refugee Organization in by his parents of 1287 Berry Place, McLean, Virginia, a Germany, then became deputy coordinator and coordinator brother and a sister. The family requests that memorial of the US Displaced Persons Commission in Europe and in contributions be sent to the Dartmouth College Scholarship 1954 deputy chief of the Intergovernmental Refugee Pro¬ Fund (specify Oriental students), Hanover, N.H. grams of ICA. In 1956 he joined the State Department’s STANTON. Edwin Forward Stanton, former Ambassador to The Foreign Service JOURNAL welcomes contributions and will Thailand, died on August 29, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. pay for accepted material on publication. Photos should he black Mr. Stanton joined the State Department in 1921 as a and white glossies and should be protected by cardboard. Color student interpreter and served at Mukden and Kalgan. He transparencies (4 x 5) may be submitted for possible cover use. entered the Foreign Service in 1924 and served at Tientsin, Tsinan, Canton, Peiping, Hankow, Nanking. Shanghai and Please include full name and address on all material submitted and a stamped, self-addressed envelope if return is desired. Vancouver before his appointment as minister to Siam in The JOURNAL also welcomes letters to the editor. Pseudonyms 1946. He became our first Ambassador to Thailand in 1947 may be used only if the original letter includes the writer’s correct and served there until his retirement in 1953.