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...current events, which diplomacy occupies, and the amount of public attention which it has always received, it is surprising to note that it is without question one of the smallest professions. There are probably less than 12,000 officials in the whole world in the combined Diplomatic, Consular and Foreign Office Services of all Powers, and if we should take the Diplomatic establishment alone, it would presumably be about a quarter of this number, or some 3,000. One can get some appreciation of these figures from considering the proportion of the Foreign Service in the United States, where there...
With all its past surplusses and vaunted wealth the United States has dealt niggardly with its younger diplomats and almost not at all with the graduates of its foreign service who have not ample personal means. Many young men in the consular service have been forced to withdraw from government employ because the salaries granted them were insufficient to insure even the necessities of a life conforming with the standards of living and entertainment expected of representatives of the United States, Because of the impossibility of supporting a suitable establishment, as advances in position brought added social responsibility and emoluments...
...inaction was being formulated in Washington by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. The Hoover Administration was deciding to underplay rather than overplay its military strength in Central America. Five days after the slaughter of the nine U. S. citi- zens, Secretary Stimson bluntly instructed U. S. diplomats and consular agents in Nicaragua as follows...
...customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would do. In his last post (Trieste) the aging adventurer made his only lucky strike?a translation of the "Arabian Nights," The Thousand Nights & A Night, which brought...
Foreign diplomatic or consular representatives of countries which have recognized the Soviet Union were challenged to make similar investigations. "But," Comrade Molotov added, "the Soviet will not allow foreign governmental investigation committees" - i. e., no U. S. congressional committee will be allowed in Red lumber camps. Sixty thousand Soviet convicts are employed in the lumber regions building roads and canals, stated the Prime Minister...