Word: consulars
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Thirty years ago there was between the Consular and Diplomatic services an impassable gulf. No nice sweet-sixteener would have fancied herself in the former, however graphically she might have pictured herself married to the latter...
...Consular consisted of men who had to make a living, who had to live on their official salaries. They got their jobs not by divine right, but in payment of services rendered to one politician or another. And then, knowing the value of a dollar, they gave the U. S., in exchange for their pay, good, honest work...
Gradually this has, in good part, changed. Consular and diplomatic service have been brought under the same supervision. Transfer from one to the other is possible...
Although the consular service to which she is assigned is still not quite so Selectable as the diplomatic to which Miss Archerson was admitted, nevertheless pretty Miss Field was all smiles when Washington newspapermen came to report whatever...
...sure women will be useful in the foreign service. Just as in other callings, there are some things in this career that women can do better than a man, especially in the large consular offices...