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...Legation are concerned. During the greater part of our history, any one recommended by a Senator or a politician of influence in the councils of the party which happened to be in charge of the government could inject a friend, or the son of a friend into the Consular or Diplomatic Service, without any knowledge on the part of such appointees of international questions or of any foreign country. Happily all that is changed, and no one can now get in save at the bottom...
Diplomacy is of particular interest at present because of the bill fathered by John Jacob Rogers '04, pending in Congress for a more thorough reorganization of our Diplomatic and Consular Services. It has just passed the House of Representatives and is likely, according to Mr. White, unless unforeseen obstacles arise to block it, to pass the Senate also during the present session of Congress--possibly within the next few days
...President issued an executive order to coördinate diplomatic and consular activities of the State Department's foreign service. He ordained future unified direction in promoting and protecting commercial and other interests in the U.S. abroad. To avoid duplication of effort, diplomatic and consular officers must exchange fortnightly briefs of economic and trade reports...
Diplomatic firmness and good temper ended a disagreeable chapter in Anglo-American relations. Two years ago British shipping interests charged that the American consular officials at Newcastle-on-Tyne had exceeded their authority by attempting to divert passengers from British to American shipping lines. The British Foreign Office insisted that the two accused officials be transferred from Newcastle, and canceled the exequaturs (official consular recognition) of Slater and Brooks, Consul and Vice Consul of the U. S. The U. S. State Department instituted three separate inquiries, which in each case failed to substantiate the charges. The British Government, however, stood...
...Consulate at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and to appoint Charles Roy Nasmith as Consul. Premier MacDonald's letter to the Ambassador said : "I have the honor to inform you that after further consideration, His Majesty's Government are prepared not to insist upon the charge of exceeding their consular authority, laid about a year and a half ago, against the then American Consul and Vice Consul at Newcastle, and it has therefore been recalled." The quid pro quo in this agreement is apparently that the two accused men are not reappointed to Newcastle...