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When Consul General Robert Piet Kisner climbed aboard the Orient Express at Paris one night last week, bound for his new post in Athens as U. S. Minister to Greece, he was performing an act of far more significance than taking a train ride. It was the first time a consular officer had proceeded to a new post without going to Washington to confer with the Department of State; furthermore, Mr. Kisner's appointment was the first important application of the Rogers Act of 1924, which combined the consular and diplomatic services into a single "Foreign Service...
Chiefly responsible for the Rogers Act and for the rising efficiency of the U. S. foreign service within the last two decades is Wilbur J. Carr, now Assistant Secretary of State. He is an earnest man of 56, with a high forehead and hard-worked eyes; he might have been a minister in Hillsboro, Ohio, if his parents had had their way. Instead he studied shorthand and soon found his way into a clerkship in the Department of State. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (then a confidential secretary to Secretary of State Gresham) picked him up as an able stenographer, then...
Secretaries of State came and went, but Mr. Carr remained the faithful, almost everlasting servant of the Department of State. In 1924 he saw the seed of 1895 reach its full bloom in the Rogers Act. The diplomatic and consular services became one; at last, the U. S. consulate became something more distinguished than a passport and visa office. Thus, able men such as Mr. Kisner, trained in the consular service, can readily step up into ministerships and ambassadorships. Probably the great ambassadorships to the Court of St. James's, to France, to Germany, to Japan will always remain...
...meeting will be held in the Living Rcom of the Union and will differ from previous conclaves in that there will be no prepared speeches. R. K. Straus '27 will act as chairman and will allow each speaker from the floor five minutes in which to delineate his arguments...
...Lawrence Lowell is chairman of the Committee in charge of the management of the Teas and Mrs. O. D. Kellogg will act as hosless for this afternoon's assembly...