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Speaking very generally, our Foreign Service today is divided into two practically water-tight compartments--the diplomatic side and the consular side. Speaking equally generally, the former has to do with questions involving international relationships and diplomacy, and the second has to do with the foreign trade of the United States...
...obvious disadvantages to which I have alluded. At this moment there is pending in Congress a bill which I have drafted and which is intended to put the service upon an efficiency basis. In the first place, there is no reason for the complete disassociation of the diplomatic and consular sides of the foreign service. It would be useful for the service and useful to the individual if a secretary should be enabled for a time at least, to perform the duties of consul and vice versa. Often times a poor secretary would be a good consul and quite...
...third place, I propose a training period, at the expense of the Government, and to be given at one or more of our larger universities, by means in which aspirants for the diplomatic or consular service may receive an intensive training of two or three years which should adequately equip them for their duties. Diplomacy and consular work both involve difficult, technical, and important duties. The men who now enter the service are usually entirely untrained and unequipped. They have to be "broken in." Much greater initial efficiency will result if this is done by trained educators than if they...
...needs it. The Fall resolution is a pernicious piece of jingoism, concocted by a self-styled defender of American honor, which proposes that we go to war with the rest of the American continent to atone for the deaths and insults to such men as our consular agent Jenkins and others, whose conduct has been such that, were they here, they would be where many of our unscrupulous profiteers and despoilers will be in the near future. I do not defend the murders of those Americans who were foully and in cold blood assassinated by bandits; but, from personal observation...
...Senate added the presumptuous Gerry resolution to the Lodge reservations on the Peace Treaty, it started the ball rolling for a series of acts of international impropriety that have strained to the limit the friendly relations of Great Britain and America. The Mason bill, proposing that complete diplomatic and consular service be established with the Irish Republic, increased still more the weight of international misunderstanding. And now 88 members of Congress have enabled Lloyd George, criticising the treatment of political prisoners in Ireland...