| Show I W I REVIVE OLD CHARGES CHAnGES OF FA IA FAVORITISM I A- A IN STATE DE- DE U P. T PROMOTIONS S By RODNEY BUTChER DUTCHER NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON July 21 Interns Internal dissension continues In the department of 01 states and the consular Insurgents insurgent hope to obtain a congressional In Investigation In of the foreign service pro pro- promotion promotion promotion motion system Members of the preponderant con con- consular consular sular branch continue to charge favor favor- favoritism favoritism and unfair discrimination on oi a behalf b hall of ot a small group of ot wealthy and an socially elect members of the diplo diplomatic matic mati corps They are arc doing missionary work wor e among members of congress and claim clam a to have excited considerable Interest although high officials of the depart department ment m nt will exert every effort to fore fore- forestall forestall forestall stall any formal investigation on the th ground that It Is s unnecessary sary and that tha thaC If there is anything wrong with the th C promotion system it Is fast being rem rein Public revelation of oC the bitter row ro v within the service three or four fou r months Ego ago was followed by some de- de de S 4 j 4 Edith Nourse Noone flog Rog Rogers ers era who curled carried on her husbands husband's fight to give e 1 consuls census promotion ac according ac- ac according cording conlin to merit for the th better according to the consuls consul but they ore are far from satisfied SQUABBLE n LI OVER PLUM PASSING r Their complaint that members of ot the diplomatic branch were being pro pro- promoted promoted promoted much oftener than the con con- consuls consuls consuls although all nIl were wera supposed to tobe tobe tobe be equal under the Rogers act has been met by a promotion list which affected some 30 consuls and no diplo diplo- mats A smaller maller list of promoted con consuls con con- cuts is expected d to follow but the In In- In declare that 15 consuls must be promoted before they will be on a parity with the Furthermore they contend that the little diplomatic clique which they say formerly drew the promotion plums has now been b cn given Its coun coun- counterpart counterpart in th the consular service For Instance it Is cited that the Rogers ers act net act provides for promotions on merit and that the foreign service Is supposed to be concentrating on Latin Latin- America with the theory that it Is Ismore Ismore ismore more Important to leave have high grade men th there re than elsewhere But only two of the last list of 28 promotions p went to consuls in Latin-America Latin and end the lice majority went to Europe Now that the th consuls are getting a afew afew afew few promotions It U is alleged that those who have been on service In the de department tIe tIe- here where they have hae established established established social contacts with the right people are arc the ones being taken care of WOMAN IAN BACKS B CONSULS CO Lawrence Dennis Denns who served In n Nicaragua accused the department of ot sending Its favorites to Europe with promotions while forgetting tor the hard workers without pull Dennis was persuaded to stop slop talking and was all nil ready to take a promotion and a n po position po- po posItion position at the American embassy In its Paris when he was WItS suddenly hired by J. J T and W V Seligman of 01 Noel New York In International In in- international bankers Who will lead the battle batUe in congress for the consuls remains to be seen cen Last LaM session se lon Congressman Edwards of ot Georgia demanded answers from the department d of state to a series I of ot questions which covered the whole range of consular complaint It Its Is un un- understood Understood that the department of state finally has drafted a lengthy answer to Edwards which has been mimeo mimeo- mimeographed mimeographed mimeographed graphed and will mIl soon be bo made public It Is said that the department ad admits ad admits mits certain defects In past post procedure but insists that the spirit of the Rog log Rogers Rogers ers era act Is now being observed In case Edwards Is satisfied and docs does no more fireworks may come from Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers whose late husband wrote the foreign service act net Mrs airs Rogers re recently re re- said that there should be to consular promotions to bring consuls up to an equal ratio with the diplomats and remarked in effect that If 11 it t were true that the consular ser ser- service service vice ice suffered from nn an Inferiority social complex the thee diplomats suf sur suffered suffered from a superiority social com corn complex complex plex and an inferiority business s com corn plex 11 ex |
