The American Foreign Service Journal; Vol. VII, No. 6, June, 1930
Washington DC: American Foreign Service Association, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. pages 197-236 plus covers. EXTRA sheet, printed on one side only, laid in. This addresses the Linthicum Bill and the Eaton Bill. Illustrations. Advertisements. Cover has a portrait of John N. Willys, the first American Ambassador to Poland. Cover has some wear and soiling and an ink notation at top front. Spine worn and torn in places. This includes articles on Working for America, Red Clover (Poem), Merchant Marine, Office in Budapest, the Alabama Claims, Public Health Service, Commercial Work, and Bradford, Home of Woolens. The Foreign Service Journal is a monthly publication of the American Foreign Service Association. It covers foreign affairs from the perspective of American Foreign Service personnel, members of Washington's foreign policy establishment, as well as features on living overseas as a foreign affairs professional. The American Foreign Service Association was preceded by The American Consular Service Association which was founded in the spring of 1918. In March 1919 the American Consular Service Association published the first issue of the American Consular Bulletin. The diplomatic and consular branches of the State Department were combined into a single Foreign Service by the Rogers Act of 1924 and, as a result, the American Consular Service Association gave way to the American Foreign Service Association. It was decided to continue the monthly American Consular Bulletin as the official publication of the expanded association. In 1924, with the publication of the October issue, the title of the bulletin was changed to American Foreign Service Journal. Among the contributors were William R. Castle, Jr. (U.S. Ambassador to Japan), Brockholst Livingston, George Horton, W. W. Heard, Dewitt Clinton Poole, Butler Wright, Charles Hosmer, John Carter and Robert Considine. John North Willys (October 25, 1873 – August 26, 1935) was an American automotive pioneer and diplomat. Well respected in the business community, John Willys was a strong supporter of the United States Republican Party who had been an Ohio delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention. Following the election of Herbert Hoover to the Presidency of the United States, in March 1930 Willys was appointed the first United States Ambassador to Poland, serving until May 1932. The Alabama Claims were a series of demands for damages sought by the government of the United States from the United Kingdom in 1869, for the attacks upon Union merchant ships by Confederate Navy commerce raiders built in British shipyards during the American Civil War. The claims focused chiefly on the most famous of these raiders, the CSS Alabama, which took more than sixty prizes before she was sunk off the French coast in 1864. After international arbitration endorsed the American position in 1872, Britain settled the matter by paying the United States $15.5 million, ending the dispute and leading to a treaty that restored friendly relations between Britain and the United States. That international arbitration established a precedent, and the case aroused interest in codifying public international law. The Wool Exchange Building in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England is a grade I-listed building built as a wool-trading centre in the 19th century. The grandeur of its Gothic Revival architecture is symbolic of the wealth and importance that wool brought to Bradford. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Department of State, Consular Service, Foreign Service, Public Health, Commercial Work, Merchant Marine, Alabama Claims, John Willys, William R. Castle, Jr., Brockholst Livingston, George Horton, W. W. Heard, Dewitt Clinton Poole, Butler Wright, Char
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