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...friendly statesmen were engaged, last week, in settling the details of their joint policy during the mid-December session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. There Germany will be represented and Spain will continue to hold aloof-having recently closed even her diplomatic and consular office at the League Secretariat. As M. Briand and Sir Austen went figuratively arm in arm to Geneva, last week, and as the Council assembled, it was reported to have been momentously determined that the Allied Military Commission of Control (over Germany) will soon be replaced by a supervisory League Commission...
...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...
...bureau of indexes and archives. By day, young Clerk Carr rummaged around among the dusty State documents with a wide-eyed, temperamental youth named Francois Jones who had worked in Paris; by night, the two became wrought up over the evil effects of politics on the diplomatic and consular services. Finally in 1895 they drew up a bill for the organization of the foreign services on a merit basis. Politicians laughed heartily, wondered who this young Zealot Carr was. Senators Morgan of Alabama and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts introduced the bill regularly from...
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...
German diplomats who had never heard of Poet Claudel remembered the Paul Claudel who began his career in the French consular service more than a. generation and a half ago (as vice consul at New York) and has served as French Minister to Brazil and Denmark and French Ambassador to Japan...