Show DEPARTMENT OF STATE Consular Service Consolidated With Diplomatic Branch in 1924 This la tha fifth ef a arrles of six articles an tha stale department and Ita personnel by Walter A. Western Newspaper Union's By WALTER A. SHEAD Benjamin Franklin was the first member of the foreign service of the United States department of state when in 1776 he was appointed joint commissioner to France and in 1778 minister to At least seven men who later became President served as chiefs of missions The consular service was launched In 1780 as an adjunct of the diplomatic but was not consolidated with it until the foreign service represents the American people and the American government throughout the world and Is the means of carrying out American foreign policy abroad In the set-up of the functional operation of the state department as now the foreign service operates directly under the secretary and the under secretary of It is broken down Into six major departments and these in turn are broken down Into 18 small The six main all under an assistant secretary of Include the bureau of German bureau of United Nations bureau of European bureau of inter-American bureau of near south Asian and African affairs and the bureau of far eastern With the eyes of the world focused today on the Far East and South these latter two departments of tremendous The Near East and the south Asian affairs bureau Is broken down into the office of Turkish and Iranian the office of African and near e a st e r n affairs and the office of south Asian The bureau of far eastern affairs is broken down into the office of Chinese the office of northeast Asian affairs and the office of Philippine and southeastern Asian Presiding over the near eastern bureau is Assistant Secretary George Crew McGhee of an Oklahoma university graduate and a Rhodes Serving as chief of the Far Eastern affairs bureau is Dean Rusk of a graduate of several American colleges WILLARO LONG THORP Secretary of State for Affairs Born N. Mar i University of instructor University of Mleh-If economic and social professor Appointed deputy to assistant secretary of state for economic secretary since Including Davidson of North and also a Rhodes a o a THE THOUSANDS of men and women in the foreign services are chosen for particular aptitude and technical training for specific and are known as men and women and generally make a life work of the foreign So conscious has the department of state become of the necessity of winning political objectives through diplomacy after the country has won military victories or without military the department in 1947 established the foreign service which is actually a school for training young men and women in the foreign service of the It is departmentalized for specialized including schools for all the languages of the The institute is now located in an eight-story building at 2115 C street in Washington and periodically its coming from every state In the find their way into the ranks of the foreign The institute also trains employees of other governmental agencies concerned with foreign The courses run up to six with the regular course for new foreign service officers now three The school for basic officer training provides courses designed to prepare new personnel for Initial field The school of advanced officer training is concerned with graduate-level Instruction in the social science including social cultural And the school of languages is designed to equip the employees with a rudimentary or even advanced knowledge of the language of the country of The foreign jervice Institute equips the representatives of the American people to do a much better job for them in the 75 nations where embassies and other diplomatic missions are By tho measurement of every yardstick the training is giving to the department a higher type of American citizen than has ever before been |