Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1946 — Page 7

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THURSDAY, DEC. 2%, 1046

State Department Finding Out Why U. S.

Diplomats Aren't Liked by Americans -

Average Citizen Thinks Our Foreign Envoys Don’t Know Much About Realities of World

First of a Series

By WALLACE R. DEUEL Times Special ter WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.—~Why don’t people like diplomats? The state department and the foreign service—America’s diplomats—

have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately, trying to find the answeg.

to this question. They also have asked a good many outsiders why diplomats are so unpopular.

by the discovery how many people think these things about them. But the diplomats.are still game. They are determined to cure as many as possible of the things that are wrong with the state department and the foreign service, and they pressed on with their inquiry. The next question they asked was: “Why do people havé this opinion of diplomats?” » The first thing they had to admit was that the common opinion of U.: 8. diplomats used to be pretty well justified by the fatts.

They think now they have gotten " , 8 pretty good idea of why s0 many [all kinds, in this same judgment. people don’t like them. They mingle too much with their They have, ac- own kind of people in the countries eordingly, where they are sént, and not enough launched a whole with other kinds. series of reforms U., 8 diplomats may be good at designed to cure passing a teacup or kissing a duchwhat is wrong. § ess’ hand, but they don’t know The first ques~ much about the practical affairs tion the state de- and the grim realities of the real, partment and the modern world—about trade and foreign service { manufacturing, for example, and have tried to get farming ant engineering and physthe answer to ul ics and radio, to say nothing of was: warfare, a certain number of tax“What do peo- Mr. Deuel payers also feel ple really think of diplomats?” The average citizen further is apt The inquiry showed that most |!0 think that a diplomat is a deAmericans think that the typical |ceitful

creature:

He is a rich man’s son, born and brought up in Boston, New York or Philadelphia. He went to an expensive, exclusive, private prep school somewhere on the eastern seaboard, and attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton or some other “Ivy League” university. Partly as a result of this background, the typical U. S. diplomat

never know what he’s talking about.

ness and initiative, tion and get-up-and-git. He doesn’t work hard enough.

terests.

payers’ eyes, the typical U. 8

the rest of the United States and |payers’ hired hand. the rest of the American people, On the contrary, the state department found out. ;

ter, and to ritual and ceremony of Fre)

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and dishonest man, who U. S. diplomat is this kind of a!Wraps up what he has to say in so| | much hifalutin’ language that you

The typical diplomat lacks tough- \ too, many Americans fear. He has no gump-

He doesn't fight hard enough for his own country’s rights and in-

Perhaps worst of all, in the tax-

J diplomat seems to have no realizaknows little—and cares less—about tion of the fact that he is the tax-

the diplomat : seems to think that he is a better Diplomats attach too much im- and a more important human being portance to social glamour and. glit-|than the citizen who pays his salary. U. S. diplomats have been shaken

cause they are needed abroad, and isome are sent because they are not wanted at home,” Secretary of State Seward once said. “The principal job of the third secretary of a big embassy was to array oneself properly and to distribute the ambassador's cards about the city. Also, to be available in case a guest for dinner fell out at the last minute,” Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson has written of the era before the first world war. Henry White, sometimes described

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ___ as “America’s first career diplomat,” —— - wrote in his later years that the best preparation he had had for diplomacy ‘was. the , experience of nine seasons’ fox-hunting in England he had enjoyed as a young) One of the ablest and most distinguished U. 8. career diplomats, now in the service, said not long ago: “As recently as just before the New Deal, the state department and the foreign service were completely controlled by a tight little clique of Harvard men who thought it was even worse to have gone to! Harvard but not belonged to the! right clubs there than it was not to {have gone to Harvard at all.” { | But times have changed. { { America had produced some of

[the world’s ablest diplomats) {throughout its history, and in the’ {past 20 years a whole generation of | {remarkably able, hard-working, pa{triotic—and sadly underpaid—| |younger men have come into the;

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J “a 3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P)~ {House Republicans today called for the maritime co! gov- # new contgressional investiga of ernment agency’ that doled out millions of dollars during the war tor shipping and shipyard facilities. t In the last congress, the house merchant marine committee held a [preliminary inquiry, and Rep. Alvin {F. Weichel (R. 0. said he would |ask for a more intensive investiga (tion as soon as the G. O. P.-con~

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department and the service. { Why do many people still think | that diplomats are dopes? Succeeding articles will report further stages of the state depart- | ment's inquiry, and the reforms {which are being adopted. {

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