The American Foreign Service Journal; Vol. VII, No. 8, August, 1930
Washington DC: American Foreign Service Association, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. pages 277-316 plus covers. Illustrations. Advertisements. Cover has a portrait of William R. Castle, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State. Cover has some wear and soiling and an ink notation at top front. Spine worn and torn in places. This includes articles on Primo de Rivera, Department of Commerce, Prague International Sample Fair, Naval Attaches,and Living Quarters. 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 J. Emerson Haven, Thomas D. Bowman, Marguerite Auld Edwards, Vernard Gufler, A. C. Frost, John Carter, M. P. Dunlap, and Robert Considine. William Richards Castle Jr. (June 19, 1878 – October 13, 1963) was an American educator and diplomat. He rose rapidly to the highest levels of the United States Department of State and took a strong interest in Pacific issues, in part because of his family's background in Hawaii. In 1919 Castle joined the U.S. State Department, rising quickly in part because of his Harvard connections. He served as assistant chief of the division of Western European affairs and from 1921 as its chief. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of State on February 26, 1927, during the administration of Calvin Coolidge. During this time he was instrumental behind the scenes in the creation of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. it was originally intended as a bilateral treaty, but Castle worked to expand it to a multinational agreement that included practically the entire world. Castle managed to overcome French objections through his discussions with the French ambassador, pointing out the original draft was more of a Frankel-American alliance, and now it was a major step toward world peace. He was U.S. Ambassador to Japan for five months during 1930 to negotiate the changes in warship limits that Japan requested from the five-power London Naval Conference 1930. He was named to this position on December 11, 1929, in large part because he had a private income sufficient to defray the costs of an ambassadorship while the State Department salaries and funds provided for entertainment were so low. Castle returned to his post of Assistant Secretary of State on May 27, 1930. The position of U.S. Ambassador to Japan remained vacant until William Cameron Forbes (1870–1959) presented his credentials on September 25, 1930. On April 1, 1931, Castle was appointed Under Secretary of State following the death of Joseph Potter Cotton. He was confirmed on December 17, 1931, and served until March 5, 1933. It was the second-ranking post in the department to Henry L. Stimson in the Herbert Hoover administration. Castle was acting Secretary of State during negotiation of the Hoover Moratorium on World War I reparations in 1931. He influenced the Treaty of San Francisco and occupation of Japan after the war. A naval attache is a naval officer detailed on duty with the diplomatic representative of his country at a foreign capital. The attaché is a military expert who is attached to a diplomatic mission, often an embassy. This post is normally filled by a high-ranking military officer who retains their commission while serving in an embassy. Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquess of Estella (8 January 1870 – 16 March 1930), was a dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during Spain's Restoration era. He deeply believed that it was the politicians who had ruined Spain and that governing without them he could restore the nation. His slogan was "Country, Religion, Monarchy." Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Department of State, Consular Service, Foreign Service, Public Health, Commercial Work, Primo de Rivera, Naval Attache, J. Emerson Haven, Thomas D. Bowman, Marguerite Auld Edwards, Vernard Gufler, A. C. Frost, John Carter, M. P. Dunlap, Robert Consid
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