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...Cheever expressed the hope that some improvement in the situation may soon take place. The proposals of a special study group, headed by Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown, for reorganization of the State Department's recruiting system may make government service again attractive to the college student, he explained...
According to a Lawrence spokesman, however, this precedent can be broken for people who have given the college "extraordinary service." In the past, Lawrence has also made exceptions for John S. Millis, President of Western Reserve, and Henry M. Wriston, President of Brown. Millis is a former dean of Lawrence and Wriston was its president before Pusey...
...three months the weaknesses and disunity of the U.S. Foreign Service have been under sharp scrutiny by the Secretary of State's Public Committee on Personnel, headed by Brown University's President Henry M. Wriston. Last week John Foster Dulles 1) published the Wriston Report, 2), ordered its recom mendations put into effect, and 3) appointed Charles Eskridge Saltzman, a Wriston committee member,* Under Secretary for Administration, with full authority to revamp the Foreign Service along the lines laid out by the committee...
Altered Outlook. The most glaring trouble in the State Department's personnel system, according to the Wriston committee, is its division into a departmental service (officials who work only in Washington) and a Foreign Service...
...Foreign Service Act of 1946 authorized accelerated promotion for exceptionally meritorious work. Charged the committee: "No such promotion has been made since the passage of the act." New Blood. Then the committee turned to the critical problem of recruitment. The Foreign Service has been retarded, said the Wriston group, "by a persistent belief that promotion from the bottom is the only true incentive," although private business has found that "late starters of high ability often enrich the base and bring fresh incentive into the jaded middle years...