Word: consulars
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Particular attention is directed to the corps of Vice Consuls de carriere, vacancies in which are filled by promotion from the grades of Consular Assistant and Student Interpreter or by the appointment of candidates who have satisfactorily passed the examination for Consul or Vice Consul. These officers are eligible to promotion on the basis of efficiency without further examination from Class Three (salary $2,500) to Class Two (salary $2,750), hence to Class One (salary $3,000), after which they are eligible for promotion to Consul of Class Six (salary...
...purpose for the establishment of this corps was to give the younger officers thorough grounding in all phases of consular work and by assignment to the larger and more important offices and contact with the broader problems which confront the Service. In this way they are exceptionally well trained for the grades which they are later to receive. The examinations for Consular Assistants and Student Interpreters, however, are less exacting...
Provision is made for forty Consular Assistants who are appointed by the President and hold office during good behavior. Their duties are similar to those of Vice Consul de carriere and they are eligible for promotion based upon the efficiency which they show in consular work to the grade of Consul or Vice Consul de carriere without further examination...
...wish in particular to place stress upon the system now in force of training language students at Government expense for service in the Diplomatic and Consular branches of the Foreign Service in China and Japan. About fifteen years ago, the Government provided for the establishment of an interpreter corps in China, Japan and Turkey in order that it might have available for its own service men trained in the knowledge of the languages, institutions and conditions of these countries...
...effort has been made to obtain for this branch of the Service young men, preferably university graduates who desire to specialize and make a career for themselves in the Oriental branches of the Consular Service. The Department is unable to allow candidates a choice as between service in China and Japan but in practice allows each successful candidate to state his preference and, as far as the exigencies of the Service permit, gives these preferences due consideration...