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PSF State:
State Dept. Determents 1944 Mar.-May
PSF 3-13-44
State
FOREIGN SERVICE CLERICAL DISAPPROVED
BY WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
Damron, Everette L
Asuncion 26-5
Fratzke, Ralph C.,
London 25-5
Gentner, William George, Jr
Reykjavik 09-3
Gutierrez, Ernest Brounda
Guayaquil 24-M
Kautsky, Richard Walter
La Paz 28-5
McKnight, Cleveland Brown
London 35-5
Phillips, George W.
Managua 32-5
Rew, William S.
Asuncion 30-5
White, Rollie H.
Mombasa 24-5
FOREIGN SERVICE AUXILIARY DISAPPROVED BY
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
Cuffe, Edward D.
San Jose 10-M
Denman, Leroy Gilbert
Guatemala City 25-M-1
Kelly, Henry W.
Iquitos 26-m
Rountree, William M.
Cairo 26-5
FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS DISAPPROVED BY
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
Bernbaum, Maurice Marshall
Caracas 11-M
Brandin, Robert Mead
Madrid 24-5
Brandon, Howard Randolph
La Paz 29-M
Clough, Ralph N.
Tegucigalpasat.M
Estes, Thomas S.
Algiers 30-M
Krieg, William L.
Lagos 10-m
Lobenstine, James C.
Bogota 25-m
Ross, Claude G.
Quito as.m
Sands, William Langdon
Corumba 27-3
Schmitt, Herbert F
Bogota 26-m
Siracusa, Ernest V.
La Ceiba 25-m-1
Triolo, James, Jr.
Bogota 29-M
PSF
State
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
March 16, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR MISS TULLY:
Enclosed are duplicate copies of the
two memoranda which Mr. Shaw left with the
President when he called upon him this
morning. Mr. Shaw inadvertently brought
these back with him.
Veran. Gallop Vera n.
Vera N. Gallop
Secretary to Mr. Shaw
Enclosures:
2 memoranda.
PSF
State
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
March 10, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
1. Permission to request occupational deferment has
been refused in the cases of 16 Foreign Service officers.
2, 308 out of 821 Foreign Service officers are
under 38 years of age. If allowed to stand, the above
action will lead to the loss of further young officers,
reducing the strength of the Foreign Service to only
513 if all officers of military age are lost. The 821
officers now available leave us understaffed even at the
present time.
3. Entirely aside from the draft situation, the
Foreign Service today is 39 under its authorized
strength. No Foreign Service examination has been held
since Pearl Harbor and recruiting is therefore practically
closed. The Service loses on an average from deaths and
retirements 25 officers a year and the President has
asked that an additional number be retired.
4. It is around the experienced officer that the
expansion needed to meet war and post-war needs must be
built. The average Foreign Service officer has studied
from 4 to 6 years in preparation for his career. Foreign
Service officers of military age have had from 2 to 15
years experience in the field. No effective substitute
can be found for this experience.
5. The shortage of younger Foreign Service officers
for obvious reasons is particularly acute and it is these
officers who are needed in many of the areas which will be
liberated by the Army and at other difficult posts in the
Service which have definite importance in the war and post-
war periods.
6. It 1s essential that all Foreign Service officers
be deferred.
PSF
POR
State
\
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
March 10, 1944
MANPOWER AND DEFERMENT SITUATION IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
I. Deferment Policy in the Department
1. All ABSOLUTE MINIMUM of occupational deferment requests is
the consistent policy of the Department.
2. A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION of all such requests is made.
3. THE PRESENT DEFERMENT POLICY of the Department is to request
deferments only where the following factors are present:
a) engaged in important war work or necessary supporting
activities in which replacement is extremely difficult,
b) considerably experienced in work of the Department,
c) Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers,
d) 30 years of age and over,
e) earning $3200 & year or more.
II. Present Deferments in the Department - ONLY 24
Marital Status
Number Deferred
Single
1
Married without children
13
Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers
10
24
III. Recent Action of War Manpower Commission
1. THE DEPARTMENT REQUESTED the Review Committee to defer 97 Pre -
Pearl Harbor fathers on January 14, as follows:
78 over 30 years, earning $2900 or more
11 30 years or over, earning less than $2900
8 under 30 years, earning $2900 or more.
2. THE REVIEW COMMITTEE of the War Manpower Commission approved
only 11 deferments, for 90 days only. out of 78 requested for men over
30 years of age. All other requests were disapproved.
IV.
-2-
IV. A Critical Situation - Reconsideration of Recent Action Is Imperative.
AN IRREDUCIBLE NUMBER of 62 Pre-Pearl Harbor father deferment
cases is being re-submitted to the Review Committee. These cases
must be approved in total if the Department is to meet its present
and future responsibilities. This list, broken down as follows,
includes an Office Director, a Division Chief, a considerable number
of Assistant Division Chiefs and other high ranking officers, and
administrative personnel essential to the effective reorganization
of the Department.
48 over 30 years, earning $3200 or more
9 over 30 years, earning less than $3200
5 under 30 years, earning $3200 or more.
TOTAL- 70
DEPARTHE T OF STATE
STATISTICS ON PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS
SUBMITTED TO
REVIEW COMMITTEN, WAR MAIPOWER COMMISSION
ON MARCH 16, 1944
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
17
A-A
Hiss, Donald
Exec. Asst. to 1957. Sec'v P-8
$8000
12/15/06
2/1/38
3/43
1
III-A
of State, Mr. Acheson
33
AACC
Gange, John F.
Executive Secretary
°-7
6500
5/30/10
12/15/41
1/16/44
1
II-A
U. S. Section
31
AD
Bell, John 0.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
10/4/12
1/19/31
5/16/43
1
111-B
35
Roper, George S.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
4/13/08
10/1/42
5/16/43
3
III-A
Warner, Percy del.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
10/5/06
37
9/1/13
9/1/43
2
II-A
AN
Duter, Ralph S.
Chief of Photo. Sec.
CAF-8
2900
8/15/10
33
10/19/42
12/16/43
2
II-A
Hawkins, Charles 7.
Administrative Assistant
CAF-8
2900
10/26/12
31
10/7/35
9/8/42
2
II-A
Holsinger, Otto R,
Asst. Superintendent of
CAF-5
2000
10/12/12
5/10/30
12/16/42
1
III-A
Diplonatic Pouch Service
BF
Kissick, Harold G.
Asst. Chief, Hudget Br.
Pali
3800
12/2/10
33
5/1/31
7/1/44
3
III-D
Walcavich, Walter G.
Acting Chief of Section
CAF-7
2700
4/19/09
34
11/8/32
9/16/112
1
III-A
CD
Loftus, John A.
Specialist in Interna-
P=6
5600
8/2/11
32
11/2/13
1/15/44
1
II-H
tional Petroleum
Phillips, William T.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
7/17/09 34
0/8/47
9/8/43
2
I-A
Petroleum Expert
P-7
6500
10/28/06
37
11/23/43
11/23/43
2
11-B
Webb, Leslie A.
2
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
CSA
Brigge, Miles 8.
Special Agent
$3200
7/10/09 34
4/1/38
1/15/41
1
II-B
Geele, James 2,
Special Agent
2900
11/5/07
36
8/1/41
5/1/42
1
I-A
Phelps, George
Special Agent
2600
5/10/09
34
7/17/43
7/17/43
3
II-A
DOR
Browne, Elwood M,
Chief of Code and
CAF-7
2600
7/2/12
31
11/12/34
1/1/44
1
IILA
Cinher Unit
Lawler, Norton P.
Asst. Chief of Gode
CAF-5
2200
6/26/10
33
9/26/34
1/1/43
1
IV-F
and Cipher Unit
DP
Forbes, John 2.
Chief, Recruitment and
CAF-12
4600
9/29/11
32
6/7/43
6/2/43
1
III_A
Placement Section
Haskell, Fred B.
Sr. Class. Investigator
CAF-9
3200
12/26/15 28
9/18/43
0/18/43
1
II-A
Irving, Wilbur c.
Acting Chief
P-6
5600
12/28/08 35
2/22/43
1/15/44
2
I-A
Ayan, Robert J.
Acting Chief, Class.Sec.
CAF_9
3200
7/11/14 29
4/8/37
6/1/43
1
II-A
ZH
Gilpatric, Donald S.
Asst. Adviser on French
P-7
6500
12/1/09 34
8/2/43
12/1/43
1
III-A
Empire
FA
Taylor, Ancel N.
Administrative Officer
CAF-12
4600
6/17/08
35
11/28/27
11/1/43
4
IV_F
20
Neal, Jack D.
Acting Assistant Chief
P-5
4600
6/28/08
35
8/21/30
11/1/42
1
II-A
Ge
Guyol, Nathaniel B.
Head of Power and
P-5
4600
10/11/08 35
3/18/42
1/1/44
2
III-B
Industry Unit
Icke, Paul V.
Head of Minerals Unit
P-5
4600
1/14/10 34
2/24/42
9/16/42
1
III-A
3
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
ISO
Green, James 7.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
$5600
11/17/10
33
6/20/42
6/20/42
1
I-A
LA
Dort, Dallas
Adviser on Hediterranean
P-R
8000
2/17/08
36
8/17/43
12/1/43
3
II-A
Area
Miller, Edward G.
Adviser on UNRRA
P-8
8000
9/27/11 32
12/1/43
12/1/43
1
II-A
Reinstein, Jacques J.
Asst, Adviser on Financial
P-7
6500
9/13/11 32
2/24/36
12/1/43
1
III_B
and Property Controls
Stillwell, James A.
Adviser on Supplies
P-8
8000
7/24/06
37
12/3/43
12/3/43
2
II-A
LRD
Mulliken, Otis &,
Acting Chief
P-7
6500
3/20/07 36
2/25/43
1/15/44
1
III-A
Simpson, Robert S.
Chief of International
P-5
4600
11/9/06 37
3/8/43
3/44
1
I-A
Labor Organizations Sec.
OPI
Dickey, John S,
Director
P-8
8250
11/4/07 36
7/41/*
1/15/44
3
III-A
Jones, Samuel S.
Assistant Chief
P-7
6500
11/11/09 34 4
7/15/42
2/21/44
1
II-A
Peurifoy, John X,
Executive Officer
P_6
5600
8/9/07
36
10/1/38
2/28/44
1
III-A
PD
Reeves, Edwy L.
Executive Asst. to Chief
CAF-9
3200
12/12/08
35
6/10/31
8/16/42
1
II-A
RP
Bevans, Charles I.
Divisional Assistant
Puli
3800
9/21/08
35
5/16/29
11/1/41
1
II-B
SA/M
White, Paul L.
Executive Assistant
P-5
4600
4/11/06
37
9/1/39
3/1/42
1
I-A
SEA
Pierson, Horry H.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
7/27/06
37
2/3/30
11/1/11
1
II-A
. Mr. Dickey served in the Department for three years prior to 1941.
la
Date of
Dnte of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class:
SA
Linville, Francis A.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
$4600
12/2/09
34
7/15/41
2/16/43
2
III-D
SWP
Herrick, Parmely W.
Divisional Assistant
Pull
3800
11/9/10
33
4/1/42
4/1/42
2
III_A
Hibbard, Richard E.
Divisional Assistant
Pall
3800
1/12/10
33
11/9/43
11/9/43
1
I-A
McCahon, William H.
Divisional Assistant
P-4
3800
9/25/07
36
10/1/43
10/1/43
1
IL-A-
Marcy, Carl M.
Divisional Assistant
P-4
3800
6/11/13
30
5/25/42
5/25/42
1
I-A
2A
Corse, Carl D.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
11/20/07
36
8/1/35
9/1/42
3
II-B :
Gay, Merrill C.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
7/8/07
36
3/15/43
3/15/43
2
I-A
Hollis, Walter
Divisional Assistant
P-l:
3800
7/30/08 35
4/1/42
4/1/42
1
II-A
Kelly, Edward W.
Divisional Assistant
P_h
3800
3/28/08
35
6/21/43
6/21/43
1
III-A.
93
Campbell, John c.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
10/8/11 32
7/17/42
3/1/44
1
I-A
Ronhovde, Andreas G.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
9/18/06
37
9/28/42
10/15/43
2
III_A.
U
Raynor, G. Hayden
Special Assistant to
CAP-15
8000
8/28/06 37
12/20/43
12/20/43
2
II-B
Under Secretary
32
V2
Chappell, Joseph J.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
3/5/07
7/1/41
6/1/42
2
I.A
Larkin, Richard C,
Divisional Assistant
P-3
3200
6/13/06
37
1/19/42
2/7/43
3
III-A
5
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
WI
Mann, Thomas C.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
$5600
11/11/12
31
12/2/43
12/2/43
1
III-A
Swihart, James W.
Assistant Chief
P-5
4600
4/13/16
27
2/9/42
1/1/44
1
III_A
A-A
Jones, William B.
Executive Assistant to
P=7
7500
3/20/07
36
12/11/43
12/11/43
1
III-A
American Chairman of
Joint Patents Committee
--
Allen, Ward P.
Assistant Adviser to
4600
1/18/15
29
7/15/43
7/15/43
1
III-A
U.S. Member, Committee
for Political Defense
4600
Yost, Charles W.
Executive Secretary of
8000
11/6/07
36
8/35
1/15/44
1
II-B
--
Policy Committee
(proposed)
ARA
Harber, Willard F.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
3/21/09
34
12/1/38
11/1/43
1
II-A
Urgent cases submitted independently to the Committee
CD
Cale, Edward G,
Assistant Chief
P-6
5600
11/30/06
37
7/10/41
1/15/44
2
III-A
CP
Morgan, James W.
Sr. Class. Investigator
CAF_9
3200
10/10/14
29
9/8/43
9/8/43
1
I-A
5H
Barnes, Courtlandt D.
Divisional Assistant
P_4
3800
12/26/07 36
2/2/42
12/1/43
2
I-A
FBO
King, Leland W.
Acting Chief
P-6
5600
12/17/07
36
12/23/40
8/16/41
2
I-A
SR
Nolan, Charles P.
Assistant to Adviser on
P-6
5600
11/22/09
34
11/3/41
12/16/43
1
I-A
Combined Shipping
Adjustment Board
6
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class,
SWP
Clattenburg, Albert B.
Assistant Chief
P-7
$6500
9/16/06
37
3/26/29
10/12/39
2
II.B
U
Conn, George T.
Administrative Assistant
CAF_9
3200
2/7/13
31
11/23/43
11/23/43
1
I-A
LT
King, Nat B,
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
11/9/07 36
1942
3/1/44
1
III-A
Monema, George N.
Divisional Assistant
Pali
3800
12/3/09 34
10/1/41
9/16/42
2
I-A
PSF
State
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
March 16, 1944
Dear Judge:
Here are copies of the documents
concerning deferments in the State
Department and the Foreign Service
which I left with the President this
morning.
Sincerely yours,
show
G. Howland Shaw
Enclosures:
Statistical statement;
Memorandum of March 10
to the President re
State Department;
Memorandum of March 10
to the President re
Foreign Service:
Supplemental statement
re Foreign Service.
The Honorable
Samuel I. Rosenman,
Special Counsel to the President,
The White House.
COPY
Re Department of State
March 10, 1944
MANPOWER AND DEFERMENT SITUATION IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
I. Deferment Policy in the Department
1. AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM of occupational defer-
ment requests 1s the consistent policy of the
Department.
2. A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION of all such requests
1s made.
3. THE PRESENT DEFERMENT POLICY of the Department
is to request deferments only where the following
factors are present:
a) engaged in important war work or necessary
supporting activities in which replacement
is extremely difficult,
b) considerably experienced in work of the
Department,
o) Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers,
d) 30 years of age and over,
e) earning $3200 a year or more.
II. President Deferments in the Department - ONLY 24
Marital Status
Number Deferred
Single
1
Married without children
13
Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers
10
24
III. Recent Action of War Manpower Commission
1. THE DEPARTMENT REQUESTED the Review Com-
mittee to defer 97 Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers on
January 14, as follows:
78 over 30 years, earning $2900 or more
11 30 years or over, earning less than $2900
8 under 30 years, earning $2900 or more.
-2-
2. THE REVIEW COMMITTEE of the War Manpower
Commission approved only 11 deferments, for 90 days
only, out of 78 requested for men over 30 years of age.
All other requests were disapproved.
IV. A Critical Situation - Reconsideration of Recent
Action Is Imperative.
An IRREDUCIBLE NUMBER of 70 Pre-Pearl Harbor
father deferment cases is being re-submitted to the
Review Committee. These cases must be approved in
total if the Department 18 to meet its present and
future responsibilities. This list, broken down
as follows, includes an Office Director, a Division
Chief, a considerable number of Assistant Division
Chiefs and other high ranking officers, and
administrative personnel essential to the effective
reorganization of the Department.
57 over 30 years, earning $3200 or more
8 over 30 years, earning less than $3200
5 under 30 years, earning $3200 or more.
7°
COPY
Re Foreign Service
March 10, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
1. Permission to request occupational deferment has
been refused in the cases of 16 Foreign Service officers.
2. 308 out of 821 Foreign Service officers are
under 38 years of age. If allowed to stand, the above
action will lead to the loss of further young officers,
reducing the strength of the Foreign Service to only
513 if all officers of military age are lost. The 821
officers now available leave us understaffed even at the
present time.
3. Entirely aside from the draft situation, the
Foreign Service today 1s 39 under its authorized
strength. No Foreign Service examination has been held
since Pearl Harbor and recruiting 1s therefore practically
closed. The Service loses on an average from deaths and
retirements 25 officers a year and the President has
asked that an additional number be retired.
4. It is around the experienced officer that the
expansion needed to meet war and post-war needs must be
built. The average Foreign Service officer has studied
from 4 to 6 years in preparation for his career. Foreign
Service officers of military age have had from 2 to 15
years experience in the field. No effective substitute
can be found for this experience.
5. The shortage of younger Foreign Service officers
for obvious reasons is particularly acute and it is these
officers who are needed in many of the areas which will be
liberated by the Army and at other difficult posts in the
Service which have definite importance in the war and post-
war periods.
6. It 1s essential that all Foreign Service officers
be deferred.
4:
Supplemental Statement
FOREIGN SERVICE CLERICAL DISAPPROVED
BY WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
Damron, Everette L
Asuncion
(26-8)
Fratzke, Ralph C
London
(25-8)
Gentner, William George, Jr
Reykjavik
(29-8)
Gutierrez, Ernest Brounda
Guayaquil (24-M)
Kautsky, Richard Walter
La Paz
(28-8)
McKnight, Cleveland Brown
London
(35-8)
Phillips, George W
Managua
(32-8)
Rew, William S
Asuncion
(30-8)
White, Rollie H
Mombasa
(24-S)
FOREIGN SERVICE AUXILIARY DISAPPROVED BY
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
Cuffe, Edward D
San Jose
(30-M)
Denman, Leroy Gilbert
Guatemala City
(25-M-1)
Kelly, Henry W
Iquitos
(26-M)
Rountree, William M
Cairo
(26-S)
FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS DISAPPROVED BY
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
Bernbaum, Maurice Marshall
Caracas
(33-M)
Brandin, Robert Mead
Madrid
(24-3)
Brandon, Howard Randolph
La Paz
(29-M)
Clough, Ralph N
Tegucigalpa
(26-M)
Estes, Thomas 8
Algiers
(30-M)
Krieg, William L
Lagos
(30-M)
Lobenstine, James C
Bogota
(25-M)
Ross, Claude G
Quito
(25-M)
Sands, William Langdon
Corumba
(27-S)
Schmitt, Herbert F
Bogota
(26-M)
Siracusa, Ernest V
La Ceiba
25-M-1)
Triolo, James, Jr
Bogota
(29-M)
PSF
State
S/R
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 27, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT.
13 more cases of Foreign Ser-
vice officers, whose deferments have
been disapproved by the Review Committee,
have come over on appeal from the State
Department.
I an holding them up pending
your decision on the other 16 Foreign
Service officers. You will recall that
originally you disapproved deferment for
all except one. Subsequently thereto
Secretary Hull and Assistant Secretary
Shaw discussed the cases with you.
These new cases are practically
the same as the old ones now under con-
sideration by you and when you have made
up your mind on those, it will be a
simple matter to apply the decision to
the new ones.
for
S.I.R.
State
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PSF
March 27, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT.
13 more cases of Foreign Ser-
vice officers, whose deferments have
been disapproved by the Review Committee,
have come over on appeal from the State
Department.
I an holding them up pending
your decision on the other 16 Foreign
Service officers. You will recall that
originally you disapproved deferment for
all except one. Subsequently thereto
Secretary Hull and Assistant Secretary
Shaw discussed the cases with you.
These new cases are practically
the same as the old ones now under con-
sideration by you and when you have made
up your mind on those, it will be a
simple matter to apply the decision to
the new ones.
S. I. R.
onlys OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
In reply refer to
FA
March 25, 1944
The Honorable
Judge Samuel I. Rosenman,
Special Counsel to the President,
The White House.
Sir:
Reference is made to my discussion with the Presi-
dent on March 16, 1944, concerning the appeal made by
the Department in its letter to him of February 9, 1944,
in connection with the disapproval by the Review Committee
of the War Manpower Commission of a number of Foreign Ser-
vice personnel, including sixteen Foreign Service Offi-
cers. At that time I also discussed the cases of the
twelve Foreign Service Officers disapproved by the Review
Committee on March 13, 1944, and that of Mr. Walter John
Stoessel, Jr., Third Secretary at the American Embassy at
Caracas disapproved by the Review Committee by letter of
March 8, 1944. In the Department's letter of February 9,
1944, the general position with reference to the need of
retaining these indispensable officers was set forth.
Individual letters of appeal covering each of the sixteen
Foreign Service Officers listed as an enclosure to the
Department's letter of February 9, 1944, were later sub-
mitted to you. There are now attached brief statements
giving the personal data on each of the thirteen Foreign
Service Officers subsequently disapproved by the Review
Committee.
The general position of the State Department with
reference to the indispensability of its professional
Foreign Service Officers by reason of their training,
experience, and general competence in order to carry out
the heavy volume of the Department's war-connected work
and particularly the acute shortage of junior officers
has been covered in the Department's letter of February 9,
1944, and discussed with the President and with you orally.
FOR VICTORY
There is,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
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There 1s, however, one special feature in connection
with these refusals that requires discussion in further
detail. The fact that, of the thirteen Foreign Service
Officers subsequently disapproved by the Review Committee,
all but two are serving at posts in Central and South
America indicates that scant importance is attached to the
war-connected character of the Department's work in those
areas. While this work 1s, of course, known to you, I
believe a brief summary would perhaps make the position
clearer.
The Axis powers, particularly Germany, had been largely
successful in obtaining a real foothold in the other American
Republics in commerce, air transportation and finance. They
had also built up strong organizations and political blocs
idealogically in sympathy to the Nazi cause, geared and
ready to carry out Nazi plans of establishing bases of opera-
tion against the United States. The establishment of Nazi
controlled governments in certain of the other American Re-
publics confronted us as a real danger. The Department's
diplomatic and consular officers have been and still are
the spearhead of our efforts to eliminate Axis influence.
Measures and recommendations adopted at the Third Meeting
of Foreign Ministers held at R1o de Janeiro immediately
after Pearl Harbor have resulted in a previously undreamed-
of measure of cooperation from the other American Republics.
This achievement has been based largely on the work of the
Foreign Service. The Nazi effort is still 8. real threat
as is evidenced by recent developments in Argentina and
Bolivia, and by spy activities on a large scale recently
disclosed in Brazil, Chile and elsewhere. To combat this
and to secure the maximum continued contribution from the
other republics & strong, experienced, competent foreign
service staff is indispensable.
The contribution to the prosecution of the war that
has been and still 1s being made by most of the other Ameri-
can Republics is great. Extensive military and naval facil-
ities have been granted in connection with the creation and
operation of bases for our Army, Navy, and Air Forces and
the establishment and operation of the United States Air
Transport Command route to Africa. Without the facilities
in the Caribbean and along the northeast coast of South
America
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America for the prompt and efficient service and supply
of our warships and transports, it would be impossible
to ferry to North Africa the planes, personnel, and
equipment for our operations in North Africa and Italy.
The Governments of most of the other republics have whole-
heartedly cooperated in the suppression of Axis subver-
sive activities. The other republics are contributing a
vast amount of strategic materials, many of them unavail-
able elsewhere, urgently needed for war production, to
mention a few, copper, tin, tungsten, antimony, quinine,
zine, lead, balsa wood, platinum, manganese, rubber, and
vegetable oils.
In achieving this result the work of the Department's
Foreign Service has been and continues to be indispensable.
Through the Foreign Service are conducted all negotiations
regarding purchase agreements, concessions of a military
and naval character and countless questions that arise in
the implementation of this program. In this work the De-
partment's responsibilities are great. They cannot be
carried out by any other agency of the Government.
The Department maintains that particularly in view
of the urgency of this work, the shortage of trained pro-
fessional officers already decreasing in number by losses
due to deaths and retirements, and the impossibility of
recruiting additional personnel for the duration, the con-
tribution that these officers, relatively few in number,
are making in their present work to the prosecution of the
war is much greater than it would be likely to be in the
armed forces.
Very truly yours,
G. Howland Shaw
Assistant Secretary of State and
Chairman of Committee on Occupational
Deferments
Enclosures:
Individual statements on
thirteen Foreign Service
Officers.
Department of State
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ENCLOSURE
TO
Letter drafted 3/21/44
ADDRESSED TO
Judge Rosenman
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BERNBAUM, Maurice Marshall
Foreign Service Officer (FS-239)
Third Secretary of Embassy, Caracas, Venezuela $3500
Age: 34 (February 15, 1910)
Married: no children
Appointed: November 16, 1936
Education: Harvard, S. B., 1931; University of Chicago;
Northwestern University. Majored in Economics.
Languages: French, Spanish and German.
Previous Experience: Accountant with private firms and the
Treasury Department. Immediately prior to his appoint-
ment in the Foreign Service he was engaged as an Economist
with the U. S. Tariff Commission.
Selective Service Status: II-B (Expired March 17, 1944)
State Department Service: Assigned as Vice Consul to Vancouver,
1936; Foreign Service School, January to June, 1938; Vice
Consul to Singapore, June, 1938; Third Secretary of
Embassy, 1942, Caracas.
Mr. Bernbaum has had over seven years experience in
the Foreign Service. He is now on duty in the Economic
Section of the Embassy. He does research work and prepares
reports upon the production and supplies of strategic war
materials and on financial and banking matters. Because
of its importance as a producer of strategic materials for
the war effort, such as petroleum, industrial diamonds and
platinum, and because of its proximity to the Penama Canel
and the extensive operations of our Armed Forces in that
area, the work of our Embassy at Caracas is particularly
important in the prosecution of the war.
BRANDIN, Robert Mead
Foreign Service Officer (FS-228)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul, Embassy, Madrid, Spain
Salary, $2500
Age: 25 (March 2, 1919)
Single
Date of Appointment: December 1941
Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1940
Languages: Spanish and French
Selective Service Status: II-A (Expired March 15, 1944)
On same date, March 15, 1944, he was placed in Class I-A
by Local Board. Letter drafted by State Department to
Local Board on March 21, 1944, noting an appeal in order
to protect its right of appeal.
State Department Service: Mr. Brandin passed the written
Foreign Service entrance examination shortly before Pearl
Harbor and, pending the necessary procedures in connection
with his appointment as Foreign Service Officer, was ap-
pointed clerk and assigned to the American Embassy, Madrid,
in December 1941. He was appointed Foreign Service Officer
on February 20, 1942 and later commissioned as Third Sec-
retary of Embassy and Vice Consul at Madrid.
Mr. Brandin's chief duties consist of the handling of
applications submitted by Spanish firms to import American
goods. This work is part of the United States program of
economic warfare. Mr. Brandin makes recommendations which
are forwarded to Washington for consideration by the Depart-
ment of State and by the Office of Exports of the Foreign
Economic Administration. Our relations with Spain have been
critical and the work of the Embassy has been almost wholly
directly concerned with the prosecution of the war. The
work which Mr. Brandin is doing with marked competence,
requires a sound knowledge of Spanish economy and the ability
to make discriminating appraisal of the applications submitted,
in the light of American policy towards Spain.
BRANDON, Howard Randolph
Foreign Service Officer (FS-156)
Vice Consul, Embassy, La Paz, Bolivia $2500
Age: 29 (April 17, 1914)
Married: June 2, 1941
Appointed: August 25, 1942
Education: Emory University, 1932-33; University of Georgia,
A.B., 1935; Grenoble University, France, 1935-36.
Languages: French and Spanish
Previous Experience: Taught French, University of Georgia,
1936-37; timber business, 1937-38; oil business, 1938-40;
Instructor at United States Naval Academy 1940-42.
Selective Service Status: II-B (Expired March 8, 1944)
State Department Service: Vice Consul, Montreal, Canada,
1943; Vice Consul, La Paz, Bolivia
Because of the complicated political situation in
Bolivia and the delicate character of our relations with
that country, it would be particularly unwise to weaken
the officer staff of our Embassy at this time. Moreover,
since the United States Government does not at present
accord recognition to the Bolivian regime, it would not
be possible to conclude arrangements for the assignment
of a replacement officer, if one were available, should
Mr. Brandon be called to active duty in the armed forces.
He makes investigations and prepares reports on economic
matters, such as production and availability of strategic
raw materials for the United States war production.
CLOUGH, Ralph N.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-197)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul,
Embassy, Tegucigalpas, Honduras. $2750
Age: 27 (November 17, 1916)
Married: November 1, 1941
Appointed: March, 1941
Education: Lingnan University, Canton, China, 1936-37;
University of Washington, B.A., 1939; graduate work
in history, economics and law, 1940-41; Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, M.A., 1940.
Languages: Spanish and German
Selective Service Status: II-A (Expired March 1, 1944).
State Department Service: Assigned as Vice Consul at
Toronto, Canada, March 26, 1941; Third Secretary and.
Vice Consul, Embassy at Tegucigalpas, Honduras,
March, 1942.
Mr. Clough is in charge of cultural relations work
of the Embassy and also supervises visa, passport and in-
voice work. The strict examination of all evidence pre-
sented by applicants for visas or for American passports,
under existing wartime regulations is essential to prevent
the entering into the United States persons whose real pur-
pose would be to engage in subversive activities. The
cultural relations program is essential in securing the
continued cooperation of the other American republics in
the prosecution of the war.
ESTES, Thomas S.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-251).
Vice Consul and Secretary, American Mission, Algiers,
Algeria.
Salary, $2500.
Age: 31 (January 23, 1913).
Married: December 4, 1938.
Appointed: December 30, 1937.
Education: United States Marine Corps, clerical school,
and private tutoring for Foreign Service.
Languages: French.
Selective Service Status: II-A (Expires April 2, 1944).
State Department Service: Mr. Estes was appointed as clerk
in the Foreign Service in December, 1937, and assigned
to the American Legation, Bangkok, Siam. He was
appointed a Foreign Service Officer, November 28, 1942,
on the basis of his excellent work in the service, and
his passing the prescribed examination. Since December,
1942, he has served at Algiers.
Mr. Estes is Assistant Administrative Officer in the
American Mission at Algiers, 8. combined diplomatic and
consular office. He is also Assistant Administrative
Officer of the Civil Affairs Section of the Allied Forces
Headquarters. The work of our Mission at Algiers, the
headquarters of the North Africa Military Operations and
of the French Committee of National Liberation is almost
wholly directly connected with the prosecution of the war.
Because of his experience of over six years in the Foreign
Service and his demonstrated ability, Mr. Estes is making
a very essential contribution to the work of the Mission.
KRIEG, William L.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-794)
Now en route from Consulate General, Lagos, Nigeria,
West Africa, to his new post, Vice Consul in the
American Embassy, Caracas, Venezuela.
Salary, $3500.
Age: 30 (October 11, 1913).
Married: February o, 1943.
Appointed: April 6, 1938.
Education: Dartmouth College, A. B., 1935; Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy, A. M., 1938.
Languages: French and German.
Selective Service Status: Registered in Lagos; not yet
classified.
State Department Service: Appointed Vice Consul, Stuttgart,
Germany, April, 1938; attended Foreign Service School,
Department of State, last half of 1939; Vice Consul,
Milan, Italy, February, 1940; appointed Vice Consul at
Lagos, October, 1941, (While on duty at Lagos, was
temporarily assigned for a short period in the middle
of 1942, to Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa.) March,
1944, assigned as Vice Consul to American Embassy,
Caracas, Venezuela. Now en route to Caracas.
Mr. Krieg has been a professional Foreign Service Officer
for almost six years, having served as Vice Consul at the
several posts just mentioned. He has thus acquired a
solid background of Foreign Service experience. It is
expected that at Caracas he will be engaged chiefly in
work connected with the Trading with the Enemy Act, including
the handling of applications and licences under that Act
and the making of investigations and recommendations for
the inclusion in or the removal from the Proclaimed List
of Certain Blocked Nationals of individual firms or persons.
LOBENSTINE, James C.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-271)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul at the Embassy, Bogota,
Colombia.
Salary, $2500.
Age: 26 (February 27, 1918).
Married: One post-Pearl Harbor child.
Appointed: May 12, 1942.
Education: Yale University, B.A., 1940; M.A., 1942, in
International Relations.
Languages: French and German.
Selective Service Status: II-B (Expired March 1, 1944).
State Department Service: Since his appointment in May, 1942,
he has served as Vice Consul and Third Secretary
at Bogota.
Mr. Lobenstine assists the Counselor of Embassy for
Economic Affairs in research and investigation and in the
preparation of economic reports. The work of the Embassy
at Bogota is very closely connected with the war effort by
reason of the strategic situation of Columbia close to the
Panama Canal, the actual operations carried on by the
U. S. Army, Navy and Air Forces using Colombian bases, and
because of the important contributions made by Colombia of
strategic materials such as quinine, platinum, and petro-
leum products.
ROSS, Claude G.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-155)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul, Embassy, Quito, Ecuador.
Salary, $3000.
Age: 26 (October 26, 1917)
Married: One post Pearl Harbor child.
Date of Appointment: July 12, 1940.
Education:Los Angeles Junior College, graduate; University
Service. of Southern California, B.S., 1939, majored in Foreign
Languages: French, Spanish, and Greek; also, German.
Selective Service Status: Classification II-B (Expired
March 8, 1944).
State Department Service: Vice Consul at Mexico City,
July, 1940; Foreign Service School, Department of State,
August to December, 1941; Third Secretary and Vice
Consul at Quito, December 1941; Vice Consul at Guayaquil,
May, 1942; Third Secretary and Vice Consul at Quito,
June, 1942.
Mr. Ross is at present charged with certain consular
work at the Embassy, the examination of applications for
American passports and for visas. He also assists as
Administrative Officer. He prepares certain of the
Embassy's communications to the Ecuadoran Foreign Office
and assists in the gathering of political information
and the preparation of political reports.
SANDS, William Langdon, Jr. Foreign Service Officer (FS-200)
Vice Consul in charge of American Vice Consulate,
Corumba, Brazil. Salary, $2500.
Age: 27 (April 2, 1916)
Single
Date of Appointment: May 21, 1942.
Education: Florida Southern College, A. B., 1936; Columbia
University, summers, 1937, 1938; Georgetown School of
Foreign Service, 1939-40.
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese.
Previous Experience: Research Assistant, Library of Congress,
1940-41.
Selective Service Status: II-B (Expired February 19, 1944).
State Department Service: Assigned to the Department upon
appointment; attended October 1, to October 29, 1942,
the Foreign Service School in Wartime Economic Work;
proceeded to post to assume charge of Vice Consulate.
The Vice Consulate at Corumba was opened for purely
war connected reasons. It is important as a listening
post with particular reference to developments in Bolivia.
It lies near the Bolivian border and, due to the critical
character of our relations with Bolivia and The Argentine
and Nazi inspired movements in those countries, Mr. Sands
has been extremely useful to the Department in obtaining
information in that part of Brazil, the Province of Matto
Grosso, and in the section of Bolivia which lies near the
border at that point. Due to the isolation of this section
of Bolivia from La Paz, Mr. Sands has, by his alertness in
establishing contacts with Brazilians and with Bolivians
who travel to Corumba, furnished the Dem rtment with much
valuable information not available from La Paz.
SCHMITT, Herbert F.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-362)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul, Embassy, Bogota,
Colombia.
Salary, $2750.
Age: 26 (June 14, 1917).
Married: Two pre-Pearl Harbor children.
Date of Appointment: March 20, 1941.
Education: Colgate University, B.A., 1939, majored in
History and Political Science.
Languages: French, German, and some Spanish.
Previous Experience: One year as accountant and one year
8.8 commercial agent for telephone company.
Selective Service Status: Classification II-A (Expires
April 7, 1944).
State Department Service: Upon his appointment in 1941,
he was assigned Vice Consul at Quebec, Canada; he
attended the Foreign Service School in Wartime Economic
Work given at the Department of State, October 1 to
October 29, 1942. He then proceeded to his new
assignment as Third Secretary and Vice Consul, American
Embassy, Bogota, Colombia.
Mr. Schmitt is assigned to the Economic Section of the
Embassy. He makes analytical studies involving considerable
amount of research and prepares reports on economic subjects,
such as the production and availability of strategic raw
materials for United States war production. He assists in
the investigation of individual firms and persons in con-
nection with the Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals
and makes appropriate recommendations for the inclusion
of firms in that list.
SIRACUSA, Ernest V.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-153)
Vice Consul, Consulate, La Ceiba, Honduras.
Salary, 2750.
Age: 25 (November 30, 1918).
Married: One child, born November 17, 1942.
Appointed: March 20, 1941.
Education: A.A., Fullerton Junior College, 1938, History
and Economics; A.B., Stanford University, 1940,
majored Economics and Political Science.
Languages: Spanish.
Selective Service Status: II-B (Expired February 26, 1944).
Classified I-A, March 2, 1944; the Department wrote
to his Local Board March 10, 1944, noting an appeal in
Mr. Sirecusa's case in order to protect its right of
appeal.
State Department Service: Shortly after his appointment in
March, 1941, he was assigned as Vice Consul to the
American Embassy, Mexico City, and shortly thereafter
he was also appointed Third Secretary of Embassy.
In May, 1943, he was assigned as Vice Consul in
charge of the American Consulate, La Ceiba, Honduras.
He is assisted by another Vice Consul, an Officer of
the Foreign Service Auxiliary. As officer in charge
of the Consulate, he is responsible for the performance
of all consular activities and in addition a large
volume of work directly connected with the war effort.
This includes preparation of economic and political
reports, the supervision in accordance with the
U. S. Navy instructions of the movements of small
craft from the port, work in connection with developing
sources of supply in the district of strategic materials
needed for U. S. war production, investigation and
reports on local firms and persons suspected of
Axis activities with reference for inclusion on the
Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals.
STOESSEL, Walter J., Jr.
Foreign Service Officer, $2750 (FS-139)
Third Secretary of Embassy, Caracas, Venezuela
Age: 24 (January 24, 1920)
Single
Appointed: February 20, 1942
Education: Lausanne University (Switzerland) 1939-1940;
Stanford University, A.B. Political Science 1941
Languages: French and Spanish
Previous Experience: Production control work for aircraft
corporation, 1941
Selective Service Status: Mr. Stoessel was classified by his
Local Board I-A on August 25, 1943. The Department appealed
on September 7, 1943 and submitted the usual DSS Form 42
and Supplement. The Local Board informed the Department
on February 11, 1944 that he had been classified I-A by
the Board of Appeal by unanimous vote. The Department on
March 2, 1944 wrote to the Chairman of the Review Committee
of the War Manpower Commission, setting out all the facts
of his case and requesting authorization for the Department
to request the State Director of Selective Service for
California to have his case reconsidered by the State
Board of Appeal. On March 8, 1944 the Chairman of the
Review Committee wrote the Department, stating that the
Review Committee, on the basis of the facts presented,
was unable to approve his deferment.
State Department Service: Shortly after his appointment, Mr.
Stoessel was assigned as Vice Consul at the American Em-
bassy, Caracas, Venezuela. He was later also commissioned
as Third Secretary of Embassy.
Mr. Stoessel's chief duties at the Embassy have been the
making of investigations and the preparation of political re-
ports. This work 1s particularly important because of the
situation in the Caribbean and Venezuela's proximity to the
Panama Canal. Extensive United States Army and Navy operations
are carried on in Venezuela, requiring constant attention from
the Embassy in connection with the making of necessary agree-
ments or arrangements and the settlement of the numerous
questions which arise. For a period of about six months in
1943, Mr. Stoessel was temporarily detailed to assume charge
of the Vice Consulate at Puerto de la Cruz. As the officer
in charge of that post and the only officer on duty, he has
gained experience in practically all phases of consular work
and wartime intelligence work.
TRIOLO, James S. Jr.
Foreign Service Officer $2750 (FS-238)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul, American Embassy,
Bogota, Colombia.
Age: 29 (April 18, 1914)
Married: February 22, 1942
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: Stanford University, A.B., 1935; A.M., 1936;
University of Hawaii, 1937; University of California,
1939; University of Panama, 1940
Language: Spanish
Previous Experience: Superintendent of Schools, Berkeley,
California, 1938-1939
Selective Service Status: II-B (Expired: March 22, 1944)
State Department Service: After appointment he was assigned
Vice Consul at the American Embassy, Bogota, Colombia
and later was also commissioned as Third Secretary of
Embassy. In October 1943 he was assigned on temporary
detail to take charge of the American Consulate at
Buenaventura, Colombia for a period of about six months.
He is at the moment still in Buenaventura, but orders
have been issued for him to return to his permanent
post on or about April 20, 1944.
Mr. Triolo's duties at Bogota have been concerned chiefly
with the administration of the Proclaimed List of Certain
Blocked Nationals for the Bogota Consular District. This work
involved extensive investigations concerning the operations
and activities of suspected firms or individuals and close
liaison with the British Legation in Bogota. Mr. Triolo was
ordered to Washington to attend the Foreign Service School
in Wartime Economic Work held in the State Department October 1
to October 29, 1942. He has acquired a good all-around compe-
tence in consular work and in wartime economic work. Because
of his record he was in October 1943 assigned on temporary
detail to take charge of the American Consulate at Buenaventura,
Colombia. As the only officer at that post, he has been re-
sponsible for the performance of all normal consular functions.
His most important activity, however, is in connection with
the war shipping activities of Buenaventura, the most important
port of Colombia as far as imports into that country are con-
cerned. It is also important in connection with the obtaining
of intelligence information, there being & fairly large German
community there.
State
April 5, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT.
In connection with the attached, I had another
long talk with Mr. Shaw.
There are now 821 Foreign Service officers. 303
of them are under the age of 38. The Department expects
to ask for the deferment of all of them. Mr. Shaw contends
that the Foreign Service must be kept intact for present
and future service in foreign affairs; that it should be
treated differently from all the other agencies and none
of them should be drafted.
You will recall that on February 22, 1944 when
I discussed some 13 of these deferments with you in the
presence of Mr. Stettinius, you were only willing to allow
one deferment. That was for one man in Ciudad, Bolivar
in Venezuela. Then Mr. Hull spoke with you and you went
over it with him and with Mr. Shaw separately.
I suggested as a possible compromise to Mr. Shaw
that we permit deferments only in the case of men who are
fathers and over 30 who have had at least 5 years' experience
in the Foreign Service.
He declined, however, and the best he was willing
to do was to allow no deferments under the age of 26.
I cannot believe that a man is irreplaceable,
at least for the duration, who has had less than 5 years'
experience. AS I see it, it is not only the importance of
the Foreign Service; we must also consider the fact that
you have not permitted exemption from your Executive Order
to any agency and if it is allowed for the Foreign Service
the other agencies will naturally feel aggrieved.
What shall I do about it?
S. I. R.
P. S. with respect to the deferments in the rest
of the State Department, I am going over them one by one
with Mr. Shaw and Mr. Puryear, the Chairman of the Review
Committee.
State
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ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON, D. c.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
In reply refer to
April 7, 1944
FA
The Honorable
Judge Samuel I. Rosenman,
Special Counsel to the President,
The White House.
Sir:
With further reference to the appeals which the
Department has made against the disapproval by the
Review Committee of the War Manpower Commission of
the requesting of occupational deferment of certain
Foreign Service officers, there is now submitted an
additional appeal against the Review Committee's
adverse decision in the case of 25 additional officers.
Individual data sheets on these officers are attached.
These cases were disapproved by the Review Committee
on March 23 and on March 25, 1944.
The position of the Department and its urgent
need of retaining these professional Foreign Service
officers has been fully covered in the Secretary's
letter to the President of February 9, 1944, in my
letter to you of March 25, 1944 and in oral discus-
sions with the President and yourself. The situation
has now reached a point where unless the importance
of the Department's work and that of the Foreign Service
to the prosecution of the war is recognized, the Depart-
ment cannot adequately carry out its statutory responsi-
bilities.
Because of its inability to obtain Selective
Service clearance the Department is now unable to send
to such vitally important offices as Chungking, Madrid
and Algiers urgently needed Foreign Service officers.
Replacements
FORVICTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
person
BONDS
AND
STAMPS
Replacements are unavailable. The work can be
performed only by competent officers with some years
of experience.
The number of Foreign Service Officers whose
occupational deferment stands disapproved by the
Review Committee totals 54, including the 16 appealed
on February 9, and the 13 covered by my letter to you
of March 25, and the 25 now presented. These 25 in-
clude 3 officers, Messrs. Davenport, Fluharty and
Fritzlan for whom the Review Committee approved occu-
pational deferment for 90 days only. Since continued
occupational deferment is disapproved, they are in
effect disapprovals. As of March 15, 1944, the total
number of male Foreign Service Officers was 816 of
whom 303 are under 38 years of age (two have died during
the past week). Of these 303, occupational deferment
is now disapproved for 54. Those disapproved include
one officer 34 years of age with over 7 years experience,
Mr. Maurice M. Bernbaum; another officer 36 years of age
with over 5 years of service, Mr. Vernon L. Fluharty.
Experienced professional Foreign Service officers have
for some time been insufficient in numbers to meet
existing demands. These demands are increasing, as for
example by reason of the opening of offices recently
at Palermo and Naples, and the necessity of increased
staff at such places as Algiers.
If the present trend continues and unless some
action is taken to enable the Department to retain
the services of its professional Foreign Service
officers, the Department will simply be unable to
perform its essential war-connected work.
Very truly yours,
3.Hawlun Law.
G. Howland Shaw
Assistant Secretary of State and
Chairman of Committee on Occupational
Deferments
Enclosures:
As stated.
PSF
State
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 8, 1944.
MEMORANDUM FOR
S. I. R.
I would go ahead with the
Foreign Service officers on the
present basis -- and tell the
State Department that if any
additional exception ought, in
their judgment, be made, they
will have to get it passed me
as an exception.
1. I would give no defer-
ment to anybody with less than
five years experience in the
Foreign Service.
2. I would give no defer-
ments to non-fathers thirty
years old or less.
You might tell Howland Shaw
that I honestly cannot treat the
State Department in this matter
in a manner wholly different
from other government departments.
I must have their cooperation in
working out individual cases.
Like so many other things in life,
I expect the State Department to
meet me half-way.
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F. D. R.
PSF
State
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April 8, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Honorable C. Howland Show
Assistant Secretary of State
Honorable Edgar Puryear
Review Connittee on Deferment
of Government Employees
In re: Foreign Service Officers of
the State Department
The President has decided these various appeals
as follows:
(1) No deferments are to be granted to any of
the Foreign Service Officers who have less than five
years of notual experience in the Foreign Service.
(2) In addition to the foregoing, no deferments
should be granted to non-fathers (pre-Pearl Harbor) who
are less than thirty years of age.
In other words, in order for a Foreign Service
Officer to be deferred he must be a pre-Pearl Harbor
father, past his thirtieth birthday and in addition must
have had no less than five years of actual experience
in the Foreign Service. Those fulfilling these conditions are
to be deferred.
I shall submit the other cases in the State
Department to the President as soon as possible.
Very sincerely,
SAMUEL I. ROSEMMAN
Special Counsel to the
President
PSF
State
PRIVATE
April 8, 1944.
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
I have the greatest sympathy with the problem of
deferments among State Department employees. The real
fundamental difficulty is that I have the same feeling
about some other classifications of Government employees
and that there is just as much to be said for their
deferment as there is for full deferment of State Depart-
ment employees.
There are certain things of which I an pretty sure.
As for instance:
(a) Boys who have had less than five years
experience in the State Department ought
not to be deferred.
(b) Boys who are not pre-Pearl Harbor fathers,
under thirty, ought not to be deferred on
the ground of parenthood.
(c) Boys who are now doing the kind of work
that an intelligent girl could do equally
well in & few months ought not to be
deferred.
There is a rule of reason in this. I an not getting
cooperation toward compromise out of my old friend, Howland
Shaw. His attitude is too much that he will compromise if
he gets his way 100%. I am perfectly willing to take up
individual cases but of the ones I have gone over & large
number do not rate deferment. I do have to think of the
effect on other departments.
F. D. R.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 5, 1944.
MEMORANDUM FOR
S.I.R.
Will you go into this and let
me have a report today?
F.D.R.
THE MALLE
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON April 5, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT.
In connection with the attached, I had another
long talk with Mr. Shaw.
There are now 821 Foreign Service officers. 303
of them are under the age of 38. The Department expects
to ask for the deferment of all of them. Mr. Shaw contends
that the Foreign Service must be kept intact for present
and future service in foreign affairs; that it should be
treated differently from all the other agencies and none
of them should be drafted.
You will recall that on February 22, 1944 when
I discussed some 13 of these deferments with you in the
presence of Mr. Stettinius, you were only willing to allow
one deferment. That was for one man in Ciudad Bolivar
in Venezuela. Then Mr. Hull spoke with you and you went
over it with him and with Mr. Shaw separately.
I suggested as a possible compromise to Mr. Shaw
that we permit deferments only in the case of men who are
fathers and over 30 who have had at least 5 years' experience
in the Foreign Service.
He declined, however, and the best he was willing
to do was to allow no deferments under the age of 26.
I cannot believe that a man is irreplaceable,
at least for the duration, who has had less than 5 years'
experience. As I see it, it is not only the importance of
the Foreign Service; we must also consider the fact that
you have not permitted exemption from your Executive Order
to any agency and if it 1s allowed for the Foreign Service
the other agencies will naturally feel aggrieved.
What shall I do about it?
5m
S.I.R.
P. S. With respect to the deferments in the rest
of the State Department, I am going over them one by one
with Mr. Shaw and Mr. Puryear, the Chairman of the Review
Committee.
April 4, 1944
By dear Mr. President:
The tenuous status of Foreign Service and Departmental personnel
under Selective Service practice to which I invite your immediate
attention demands definitive decision.
On February 9, 1944 I appealed to you the decision of the Review
Committee disapproving cosupational deferment for 13 Foreign Service
and TO Departmental officers. The Department's Agency Committee had
then already disapproved asking for deferments to the point where less
of efficiency is actually being experienced both at home and abroad.
The Committee has also endeavored to anticipate Selective Service
requirements in establishing recruiting standards.
The Review Committee has now disapproved a total of 56 requests
for occupational deferments of Foreign Service officers. The pattern
is clear. It is apparent that the entire complement of 303 such offi-
cors of military age similarly will be withdrawn for industion. This
number constitutes 37% of the entire professional service. Requests
for deferment of subordinate and auxiliary personnel have likewise been
refused. New even retention of 4-y appointees is rendered uncertain.
Neither the Foreign Service nor the Department can continue to fune-
tion denuded of its seasoned personnel. Improvements will be impossible.
Indeed, $ doubt If there can be maintained a semblance of efficiency in
conducting activities vital to the presseution of the Har.
In view of this rapidly deteriorating situation, I must emphasise
that the problem is no lenger one of blindly suberdinating our foreign
relations program to the limitless requirements of the armed services
for non. & point has new been reached in the depletion of experienced
personnel where - are clearly feeed with the declsion: whether the
Pereign Service is vital to the war effort; and whether the reorganis-
ation and expansion of the Department is a necessary condition of a sue-
cossful program of foreign relations in the mementous months that lie ahead.
Intelligent action requires experienced and skilled personnel. Other
of the United Nations have recognised this as fundamental. Without similar
recognition w shall fail. I ask your effective aid and early deelsion.
Faithfully yours,
The President,
Cordell Hull
The White House.
PSF
State
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 8, 1944.
MEMORANDUM FOR
S. I. R.
I would go ahead with the
Foreign Service officers on the
present basis -- and tell the
State Department that if any
additional exception ought, in
their judgment, be made, they
will have to get it passed me
as an exception.
1. I would give no defer-
ment to anybody with less than
five years experience in the
Foreign Service.
2. I would give no defer-
ments to non-fathers thirty
years old or less.
You might tell Howland Shaw
that I honestly cannot treat the
State Department in this matter
in a manner wholly different
from other government departments.
I must have their cooperation in
working out individual cases.
Like so many other things in life,
I expect the State Department to
meet me half-way.
F. D. R.
April 8, 1944
MAMORANDUM FOR:
Honorable C. Howland Shaw
Assistant Secretary of State
Honorable Edgar Puryear
Review Conmittee on Deferment
of Government Employees
In re: Foreign Service Officers of
the State Department
The President has decided those various appeals
as follows:
(1) No deferments are to be granted to any of
the Foreign Service Officers who have less than five
years of notual experience in the Foreign Service.
(2) In addition to the foregoing, no deferments
should be granted to non-fathers (pre-Pearl Harbor) who
are less than thirty years of age.
In other words, in order for a Foreign Service
Officer to be deferred he must be a pre-Pearl Harbor
father, past his thirtieth birthday and in addition must
have had no less than five years of actual experience
in the Foreign Service. Those fulfilling these conditions are
to be deferred.
I shall submit the other cases in the State
Department to the President as soon as possible.
Very sincerely,
SAMUEL I. ROSENMAN
Special Counsel to the
President
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MEMORANDUM FOR JUDGE ROSENMAN
In connection with your memor andum of April 8th
setting forth the President's decision concerning
the deferment of Foreign Service officers, we shall,
of course, have to prepare a circular telegram to
our missions and consulates abroad. Before drafting
this telegram, I want to be perfectly sure that we
have accurately understood the President's decision.
Basing ourselves on your memorandum, our understanding
is that all Foreign Service officers who have passed
their 30th birthday are to be deferred on condition
that they have had five years' experience in the
Service and that no Foreign Service officer who has
not attained his 30th birthday may be deferred unless
besides having had five years' experience in the
Foreign Service he is also a pre-Pearl Harbor father.
If you would senfirm this understanding of ours, I
should be much obliged.
G. Howland Shaw
Assistant Secretary
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4-8-44
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
BRIEF ON 37 CASES OF PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS
motion
April 8, 1944.
Name: John 0. Bell
Age: 31
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: B.S. degree, George Washington University (chemistry)
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Total Experience: 14 years, 7 months
Experience in Department: 13 years, 3 months
Experience Related to Present Work, 5 years, 7 months
Title and Salary: Divisional Assistant, Aviation Division, $5,600
Present Work:
Mr. Bell actively assists in the preparation of
agenda for use in negotiations on aviation problems and
policies being held pursuant to direct orders from the
President. This involves the British, Canadian, and
Soviet and other governments and these discussions are
preparatory to a United Nations conference on aviation
policy. He is responsible for those sections of the
agenda dealing with airports and facilities, especially
such phases as use of airports and facilities on a non-
discriminatory basis, arrangements for control of air-
ports and facilities in isolated and strategic areas
and special United States' interests in airports and
facilities constructed or improved, wholly or substan-
tially with United States' funds.
Other Factors: The Aviation Division was recently established to
take account of the growing importance of aviation
matters. In view of its present workload, the Divi-
sion is seriously understaffed and it is extremely dif-
ficult to find qualified replacements for the Divi-
sion's officers. Mr. Bell has had over thirteen years'
experience in the Department of State of which five
years have been related to work in the field of avia-
tion matters.
now defensed to 7/1/44
anation
April 8, 1944.
Name: George S. Roper
Age: 35
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 3
Education: B.S. degree in economics, Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service. M.B.A. Harvard University.
Total Experience: 15 years
Experience in Department: 2 years and 6 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 9 years
Title and Salary: Divisional Assistant, Aviation Division, $5,600
Present work:
Responsible for matters relating to development of
foreign airlines, air transport and air freight services;
Division's principal liaison officer with the Civil
Aeronautics Board; works closely in cooperation with the
aviation authorities in the War and Navy Departments.
Actively assists in preparation of agenda for use in
negotiations on aviation problems and policies being held
pursuant to direct orders from the President. This involves
the British, Canadian and Soviet and other governments and
these discussions are preperatory to a United Nations
conference on aviation policy.
Other Factors: The Aviation Division was recently established to take
account of the growing importance of aviation matters.
In view of its present workload the Division is seriously
understaffed and it is extremely difficult to find
qualified replacements for the Division's officers.
Mr. Roper has had more than four years experience in
commercial international transportation work and two
and one half years in the Civil Aeronautice Authority.
now defened to 7/1/44
2
women
April 8, 1944
other agencies
have not department
Name: Ralph S. Duter
Age: 33
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 2
Education: Vocational School training in architecture, drafting and art.
LaSalle Correspondence school, training in accounting.
Total Experience: 10 years 7 months
Experience in Department: 1 year 6 months
Excerience related to present work: 10 years 7 months
Title and salary: Chief of Photographic Section, Division of Administrative
Management ($2,900)
Present work:
Responsible for all the microfilming and photo-
graphic activities of the Department of State and for
other governmental agencies transmitting and receiving
highly important and frequently secret information
from abroad. such as the Office of War Information,
Foreign Economic Administration, United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, etc., including
the microfilming of instructions for dispatch to
American missions in the field and the development of
microfilms of despatches, reports, etc., from such
missions.
Other factors: (1) The only means of communication with several of
this Government's missions stationed abroad is by
air and the maximum weight of the mail which the
Department may send at one time is limited.
(2) In view of the Department's unsuccessful efforts
to recruit an Assistant Chief of this Section, it must
be présumed that if Mr. Duter is lost to the Depart-
ment, it may become necessary to close down the
Photographic Section.
April 8, 1944
Name: Charles F. Hawkins
Age: 31
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 2
Education: B. C. S., Southeastern University
Total Experience: 14 years
Experience in Department: 14 years
Experience related to present work: 3 years
Title and Salary: Chief of the Procurement and Supply Branch,
Division of Administrative Management, $2900
Present Work:
Plans and directs the procurement and supply
work of the Department, including special and
highly technical procurement assignments for in-
ternational conferences and commissions, for the
microfilm laboratory, for the Offices of the
Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of
State, etc.
Other Factors:
The procurement of adequate supplies and equip-
ment is essential to the functioning of the Depart-
ment, particularly in view of the expansion now
taking place. The Department has no one available
to replace Mr. Hawkins since his assistant is sub-
ject to induction.
April 8, 1944.
Name: Willard F. Barber
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: A.B. degree, Stanford University
M.A. degree, Stanford University
Graduate work, Columbia University
Total Experience: 15 years
Experience in Department: 6 years
Experience Related to Present Work: 5 years
Title and Salary: Divisional Assistant, Office of American Republic
Affairs, $5,600
Present Work:
Specialist in United States' relations with Cuba,
Haiti and the Dominican Republic involving matters
concerning sugar industry in Cuba and sugar supplies;
American investments in Cuba; economic, fiscal, and
financial problems in Haiti and the Dominican Republic,
including bonds, Export-Bank loans and credits, budget,
revenues, inflation, taxation and related problems.
now deferred to 7/1/44
April 8, 1944
36.10
Name: Harold G. Kissick
Age: 33
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 3
Education: LL.B. Washington College of Law.
Studied at George Washington University
Total Experience: 14 years 9 months
Experience in Department: 13 years
Experience related to present work: 8 years
Title and salary: Assistant Chief of Budget Branch, Division of
Budget and Finance ($3,800)
Present work:
As a specialist in budgetary matters, participates
in the budgetary operations of the Department, including
the Foreign Service ( approximately 300 offices), and
the various international commissions which come under
the jurisdiction of the Department of State.
Other factors:
Mr. Kissick served as legal counsel for the
Division of Foreign Service Administration in matters
arising in connection with the expenditure of public
funds and as Technical Assistant to the Director of
Personnel of the Department on matters involving the
interpretation of statutes and other legal authorities.
By virtue of this training Mr. Kissick acquired know-
ledge of administrative policies and practices of the
Department of State, and particularly the Foreign
Service, which is irreblaceable.
now defensed to 7% 144
April 8, 1944
Name: Walter G. Welcavich
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 2
Education: L. L. B., Columbus University
Studied at Strayer Business College and Benjamin Franklin
University
Total Experience: 13 years
Experience in Department: 13 years
Experience Related To Present Work: 6 years 9 months
Title and Salary: Chief of the Records and Reports Section,
Division of Budget and Finance, $2700
Present Work:
Responsible for (1) the requisitioning and main-
tenance of adequate disbursing balances to the credit
of the Chief Disbursing Officer of the Treasury for the
payment of all vouchers; (2) the examining, recording,
and scheduling for payment of all drafts drawn in the
Foreign Service on the Secretary of State for the ob-
tainment of disbursing funds, the adjustment of appro-
priations and miscellaneous receipts through the pre-
paration of transfer and counter-warrants and other-
wise: and (3) the preparation of special reports for
the Congress, the Bureau of the Budget, the Treasury,
the Budget Officer of the Department, etc.
Other Factors:
The Division of Budget and Finance has been seriously
handicapped by the less of many of its more experienced
employees either as a result of the war or situations con-
nected with the war. Mr. Walcavich is presently replac-
ing the Chief of the Section and, due to the loss of
employees at all levels, will be the only employee left
in the Department with a knowledge of International
Business Machines methods.
now def to 7/1/44
April 8, 1944.
Name: John À. Loftus
Age: 32
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: A.B. degree, Catholic University (economics)
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Total Experience: 5 years, 7 months
Experience in Department, 5 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 5 years
Title and Salary: Specialist in International Petroleum Economics,
Commodities Division, $5,600
Present Work: As a specialist on international economic problems in the
field of petroleum and an expert on the international
organization of the petroleum industry, Mr. Loftus has
responsibility for assembling factual data and economic
studies in preparation for current and forthcoming
intergovernmental conferences on petroleum. Such confer-
ences are to be held with the United Kingdom immediately
and thereafter with other interested governments.
Mr. Loftus' work is of the utmost importance in the
preparation of this government's material for these
conferences.
Other Factors: At the present time, Mr. Loftus is the only officer in
the Department trained in the economics of the petrol-
eum industry and free to devote all of his time to such
study and analysis. The responsibilities of the Depart-
ment in the petroleum field have been increased so
greatly that the services of additional personnel would
have to be regarded as supplementary to rather than
substitutable for the services of Mr. Loftus. It would
be impossible to cope with current and anticipated
workloads with the present nucleus of professional
officers available in the Division
April 8, 1944.
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Name: William T. Phillips
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 2
Education: A.B. degree, Allegheny College (economics)
Ph.D. If
Cornell University Graduate School (economics)
Total Experience: 12 years
Experience in Department: 7 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 6 years, 2 months
Title and Salary: Chief of Food and Agricultural Products Section,
Commodities Division, $5,600
Present Work:
He is responsible for the policy and action of the
Division pertaining to the production and control and
the distribution in international commerce of such
products as rubber, wheat, sugar, wool, cotton, coffee,
cocoa and spices. He is drafting & proposed International
Rubber Agreement which, with its accompanying documents,
will form the basis for discussion during the pending
negotiations with the Governments of the United Kingdom,
the Netherlands, Brazil, India and Russia.
He serves as secretary to the Interdepartmental
Coffee Committee which is an advisory body to the Depart-
ment of State on all matters relating to coffee arising
under the Inter-American Coffee Agreement. In addition,
he is a member of the Far Eastern Committee which formu-
lates policy recommendations concerning operations in
the Far East.
Other Factors: The Commodities Division is a new division established
under the reorganization of January 15, 1944 in order to
give adequate attention to the vital number of current
and future problems concerning international trade in
primary commodities. The Division is very seriously
understaffed and it would be quite impossible to cope
with current and anticipated workloads with the present
nucleus of professional officers available in the
Division.
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April 8, 1944.
Name: Edward G. Cale
Age: 37
Number of Pre-Pearl Earbor Children: 2
Education: Ph.D. degree in economics, University of Virginia
Total Experience: 14 years
Experience in Department: 2 years and six months
Experience Related to Present Work: 14 years
Title and Salary: Assistant Chief, Commodities Division, $6,500
Present Work:
Responsible for the Division's work concerning
cocoa, coffee, cotton, sugar, wheat, wool, rubber and
metals; administrative work in connection with international
commodity agreements of which the United States Government
is a signatory; Department's liaison with the Office of
Price Administration concerning import and export price
control and rationing regulations; chairman of the
Interdepartmental Coffee Committee; United States delegate
to Inter-Americen Coffee Board.
Other Factors:
The Commodities Division is & new division established
under the reorganization of January 15, 1944 in order to
give adequate attention to the vital number of current and
future problems concerning international trade in primary
commodities. The Division is very seriously understaffed
and it would be quite impossible to cope with current
and anticipated workloads with the present nucleus of
professional officers available in the Division.
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April 8, 1944.
Name: Miles E. Briggs
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: Business School
Total Experience: 15 years
Experience in Department: 5 years, 7 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 5 years, 7 months
Title and Salary: Special Agent, Office of Chief Special Agent, $3,200
Present Work:
Conducts investigations for the Department of State
in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina of (1) visa applicants, (2) passport applica-
tions, and (3) applicants for employment in the Depart-
ment and in the Foreign Service. Serves in the capacity
of liaison officer in connection with the special pro-
tection of foreign diplomatic visitors and other guests
of this government. Performs special duties in connec-
tion with the exchange and detention of Axis officials
and non-officials.
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Name: George Phelps
Age: 35
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 3
Education, Studied business administration, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Studied railroad operation, Yale University
Specialized training in salesmanship, credits and
collections, International Correspondence School and
National Association of Credit Men
Total Experience: 12 years, 4 months
Experience in Department; 9 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 9 months
Title and Salary: Special Agent, Office of Chief Special Agent, $2,600
Present Work:
Conducts investigations for the Department of State
in the New York territory and field territories in
western New York State, western Pennsylvania, Ohio and
part of West Virginia of (1) visa applicants, (2) pass-
port applications, and (3) applicants for employment in
the Department and in the Foreign Service. Serves in
the capacity of liaison officer in connection with the
special protection of foreign diplomatic visitors and
other guests of this government. Performs special
duties in connection with the exchange and detention of
Axis officials and non-officials.
April 8, 1944
Name: Elwood M. Browne
Age: 31
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 2
Education: Studied International Relations at George Washington
University.
Total Experience: 14 years.
Experience in Department: 9 years 6 months
Experience related to present work: 9 years 6 mos.
Title and salary: Chief of Code and Cipher Unit, Division of Communications
and Records ($2,600) (Night Shift)
Present work:
Assumes full responsibility for the encoding,
decoding, enciphering and deciphering of telegraphic
communications transmitted and received by the Tele-
graphic Section of the Department of State to and from
over 338 locations throughout the world, including
telegrams of the most highly confidential and secret
nature relative to the most highly important and secret
military, naval, political, social, and economic matters
and directly affecting the major governmental agencies
concerned with the war effort, notably Mar, Navy,
Treasury, and Justice Departments, etc.
April 8, 1944
Name: John T. Forbes
Age: 32
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 1
Total Experience: 14 years, 3 months
Excerience in Department: 11 months
Experience related to present work: 9 years, 6 months
Title and salary: Chief, Recruitment and Placement Section, Division
of Departmental Personnel ($4600)
Present work:
Supervises the recruitment and placement work of
the Department. At the present time Mr. Forbes is
responsible for planning and conducting recruitment
programs designed to recruit 800 additional employees
within the next few months.
Other factors:
(1) This recruitment program is a vital part of the
reorganization of the Department.
(2) The duties involved in recruiting new employees
for the Department are of paramount importance and
vitally necessary to the successful conduct of the
Department's work.
(3) There is a shortage of experienced personnel
people in the Government service at this time.
April 8, 1944
Name: Fred B. Faskell, Jr.
Age: 28
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: Two years, Wilson Teachers' College
A.B. degree in foreign service, George Washington
University
Total Experience: 6 years, 8 months
Experience in Department:
8 months
Experience Related to present Work: 2 years, 5 months
Title and Salary: Senior Classification Investigator, $3,200
Present work:
Responsible for conducting classification investiga-
tion surveys and studies in a group of Offices and Divisions
of the Department. In view of the reorganization of the
Department, the Classification Section must do a complete
job classification survey of the Department which involves
more than 3,500 positions.
Mr. Haskell's duties in view of the heavy workload
which the Section has at present involves detailed
planning, direction of investigators, preparation of
detailed reports, analysis of position descriptions,
determiniation of grades of positions, liaison with the
Civil Service Commission.
Other Factors:
(1) Classification of positions in the Department is
vitally necessary to give effect to the reorganization
of January 15, 1944.
(2) Loss of Mr. Haskell's services at this time would
seriously impair and retard the classification of
positions which must be established before employees can
be recruited.
(3) Mr. Haskell's experience in the Department for the
past 8 months has enabledhim to become familiar with
one segment of the Department's organization.
(4) The Department is endeavoring to expand its present
classification staff to meet the present classification
workload.
(5) Two of the four Senior Classification Investigatore
are scheduled for induction within the very near future.
April 8, 1944.
Name: Robert J. Ryan
Age: 29
Number of Pre-Pearl Herbor Children: 1
Education: Two years, Massachusetts State College,
LL.B. degree, Columbus University.
Total Experience: 7 years, 9 months
Experience in Department: 7 years
Experience Related to Present Work: 2 years
Title and Salary: Acting Chief, Classification Section, $3,800
Present Work:
Responsible for the formulation, recommendation,
and application of policies, standards, and procedures
with respect to the classification of positions in the
Department both regular and emergency.
At present Mr. Ryan is directing the conduct of
classification surveys throughout the Department involving
more than 3,500 positions.
Other Factors: (1) In view of the reorganization of the Department the
Chief of the Classification Section must be an individual
with considerable Departmental experience.
(2) Only person in the Classification Section with con-
siderable background in the Department.
(3) Section has no Assistant Chief.
(4) Three of the four Senior Investigators are subject to
induction in the near future; deferment is being requested
for one of these three.
(5) Difficult to recruit classification experts under
existing conditions.
(6) Department is planning to recruit 800 additional
employees within the next few months.
(7) The classification of positions is necessary before these
new employees can be recruited and is the first and essential
step in giving effect to the reorganization.
(8) Loss at this time would result in serious delay in the
reorganization of the Department.
(9) Even if a replacement were available he would be
unable to assume direction of the classification surveys
underway.
April 8, 1944.
Name: Donald S. Gilpatric
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: A.B. degree, Princeton University
Total Experience: 12 years, 5 months
Experience in Department; 8 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 1 year, 5 months
Title and Salary: Assistant Adviser on French Empire, Eastern
Hemisphere Division, $6,500
Present Work:
Mr. Gilpatric serves as an Assistant Adviser on the
French Empire, which is one of the major area groupings
within the Eastern Hemisphere Division. He serves as
the Department's liaison with the Foreign Economic
Administration, Treasury Department, and War Department,
the War Production Board and other agencies of the
government concerned with wartime economic problems in
all French territory. Coordination of these activities
is through the Combined Committee for French North and
West African Civil Affairs, which Committee is also
responsible for all communications with and instructions
to the North African Economic Board.
Other Factors: (1) The experience and relation with French authorities
which has resulted in the past year's operations in
French territories is an important part of the planning
for the liberation of Metropolitan France, and acknow-
ledged as such by the military authorities concerned.
(2) The Eastern Hemisphere Division has no officer other
than Mr. Gilpatric who is familiar with the background
on these problems.
April 8, 1944.
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Name: Leland W. King
Age: 36
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 2
Education: Graduated architect
Total Experience: 18 years
Experience in Department: 7 years
Experience Related to Present Work: 7 years
Title and Salary: Assistant Chief, Foreign Buildings Operations, $5,600
Present Work:
Responsible under the Foreign Buildings Act for purchase
of properties, design and construction of buildings, and
protection and maintenance of government buildings in foreign
countries, including those in enemy-occupied areas. These
buildings and properties house diplomatic and consular
establishments and offices for military and naval attachés,
and various emergency agencies now operating abroad.
Serves as Acting Executive Secretary of the Foreign
Service Buildings Commission composed of the Secretaries of
State, Treasury and Commerce and ranking and minority members
of the House Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations
Committees.
Other Factors: First-hand knowledge of the construction techniques and
design requirements is essential in this position and it
would be virtually impossible to find a replacement for
this officer to complete the supervision of the forty-one
projects in various stages of work at the present time.
Serves as Acting Chief of the Division approximately
80 per cent of the time due to absence of Chief on field
trips outside of the United States.
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April 8, 1944.
Name: Paul W. Toke
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: Ph.B. degree in geology, University of Wisconsin
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Total Experience, 9 years, 6 months
Experience in Department, 2 years, 2 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 9 years, 6 months
Title and Salary: Chief of the Minerals Section, Division of Geography
and Cartography, $4,600
Present Work:
Supervises and participates in research investiga-
tions involving the geographic analysis and development
of technical information and data pertaining to produc-
tion, processing methods, distribution, and character of
reserves, and other factors pertinent to representing
the real political, economic, military and commercial
value of the various economically important minerals in
all parts of the world.
Other Factors: There has been a very severe shortage of manpower in
the geographic profession for more than a year and
the Department's extensive efforts to recruit such
personnel have been unsuccessful, including efforts
made through the American Geographic Society.
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April 8, 1944.
Name: James Frederick Green
Age: 33
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: B.A. degree, Yale University (government)
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Geneva School of International Studies
Total Experience: 8 1/2 years
Experience in Department: 1 year, 10 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 8 years, 2 months
Title and Salary: Divisional Assistant (authority on empire-holding
countries, especially British Empire), Division of
International Security and Organization, $5,600
Present Work:
Responsible for current and post-war problems
involved in general security and in colonial and trustee-
ship arrangements as affecting all empire-holding
countries, especially Great Britain. He is currently
engaged in preparations for intergovernmental conversa-
tions to be held within the near future. He works with
the War and Navy Departments in matters concerning the
formulation and effectuation of political decisions for
the enforcement of security.
Other Factors: (1) No one available in Department, and, so far as is
known, in the United States, who possesses Vr. Green's
knowledge in this field.
(2) Mr. Green is preparing material for secret inter-
governmental conversations already begun in a preliminary
way and which will develop rapidly within the very near
future.
(3) The Division of International Security and Organiza-
tion is one of two divisions in the Office of Special
Political Affairs, which is the central agency within
the Department charged with political matters of world-
wide scope arising out of (a) the war, and (b) the
making of the peace.
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April 8, 1944.
Name: Edward G. Miller, Jr.
Age: 32
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: A.B. degree, Yale University
LL.B II , Harvard Law School
Total Experience: 8 years
Experience in Department, 3 years
Experience Related to Present Work: 8 years
Title and Salary: Adviser on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilita-
tion Administration, Office of the Special Adviser
on Liberated Areas, $8,000
Present Work:
Speaks and acts for the Department in advising
officials of the American Delegation of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and high-ranking
officials of other agencies on matters pertaining to
foreign policies and international aims of this govern-
ment in connection with the formulation of relief and
rehabilitation programs; conducts negotations on behalf
of the Department with representatives of foreign govern-
ments; maintains effective liaison on the part of the
Department with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilita-
tion Administration and keeps the Department informed of
the policies, programs and operations of that international
body; maintains liaison with the Foreign Economic
Administration.
April 8, 1944
Name: Robert S. Simpson
Age: 37
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 1
Education: University of Virginia, B.S. and M.S.
Cornell University, LL.B.
Total Experience: 11 years 6 months
Experience in Department: 1 year
Experience related to present work: 11 years 6 months
Title and salary: Chief of the International Labor Organization Section,
Division of Labor Relations $4600 per annum
Present work:
Mr. Simpson serves as Chief of the International Labor
Organization Section of the Division of Labor Relations,
the function of which is: (1) To carry on all of the
Department's relations with the International Labor Organi-
zation; (2) To prepare agenda material and instructions for
United States delegates to Conferences of the International
Labor Organizations; (3) To study the international activities
of labor organizations such as the International Federation
of Trade Unions and the OTAL (Confederacion de Trabajavores
de la América Latina); (4) To study the relations of United
States labor unions to foreign labor unions and organizations;
and (5) To study the labor aspects of international political
movements such as socialism, communism, etc. Mr. Simpson
will also serve in developing plans for international health
and international social welfare organizations.
Other factors:
(1) Mr. Simpson's services are essential not only in
preparation for the conference of the I.L.O. in April but
following-up the recommendations which will be made by
the conference; (2) The Division of Labor Relations was
established by Departmental Order of January 15, 1944.
Mr. Simpson was one of the few employees of the Department
with a background in labor matters who was appointed to
the new Division to serve as a nucleus of the proposed
staff. To date, the Division has not been able to recruit
the additional professional employees needed to carry on
the programs of the Division and it would be practically
impossible to replace the few employees now on the staff.
As soon as new employees are appointed, Mr. Simpson will
have much of the responsibility for their training.
April 8, 1944
Name: Samuel S. Jones
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: One child
Education: B.A. in History and Political Science, Georgetown College.
M.A. in Political Science, University of Kentucky.
Studied Government and Diplomacy at Harvard.
Ph.D., from New College, Oxford University, England.
Studied at the Geneva School of International Relations.
Total Experience: 9 years 6 months
Experience in Department: 1 year 9 months
Experience related to present work: 7 years 6 months
Title and salary:Assistent Chief of the Division of Public Liaison ($6500)
Present work:
As an Assistant Chief of the Division of Public
Liaison, directs and conducts continuing analytical
studies of public attitudes on current foreign policy
questions, which analyses are made available regularly
to the Secretary of State, the Under Secretary, the
Assistant Secretaries and other high officers of the
Department in order that the views and suggestions of
the American public on foreign policy may be given the
fullest possible consideration.
Practically all of Mr. Jones' academic and
experience background has been in connection with the
general field of international relations and public
opinion.
April 8, 1944
Name: Edwy L. Reeves
Age: 35
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Total Experience: 16 years
Excerience in Department: 12 years, 10 months
Experience related to present work: 5 years
Title and salary: Administrative Officer, Passport Division ($3200)
Present work: Supervises and directs the administrative work of the
division and of the five Passport Agencies. He conducts
experiments in fraud prevention work including the de-
signing of passports and related forms with fraud preven-
tive characteristics, the preparation of special paper,
the use of chemicals, etc. In addition, he assists the
Chief of the Division in special assignments delegated
by the Secretary or Assistant Secretaries of State on
matters pertaining to passport and citizenship work.
Other Factors: (1) Employed in Passport Division for 14 years, 10 of
which have been spent in the immediate office of the
Chief of the Division.
(2) The Passport Division is particularly concerned
with the issue of documentation to civilian experts pro-
ceeding to all parts of the world, and the issue of pass-
ports to members of the U.S. Merchant Marine, and as
required with the documentation of military and naval per-
sonnel.
(3) In addition by the application of the control measures
with which it is vested the Division plays an active and
effective role in suppressing sabotage, espionage and
kindred activities both at home and abroad.
(4) The constant turnover of personnel within the
Division has made it practically impossible to obtain a
trainee for this position who has the necessary experience
and qualifications in the work of the division. An in-
cumbent must have administrative ability, a knowledge of
the citizenship and passport laws, a thorough understand-
ing of Departmental and governmental administrative and
fiscal procedures and special training.
April 8, 1944.
Name: Francis A. Linville
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 2
Education: A.B. degree in economics, Missouri University
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Total Experience, 11 years, 8 months
Experience in Department, 2 years, 9 months
Experience Related to Present Works 7 years, 4 months
Title and Salary, Divisional Assistant, Supply and Resources Division,
$4,600
Present Work:
Devotes full time to procurement programs for
(1) fibers, cordage, textiles and clothing, (2) logs and
lumber, (3) chemicals and drugs, except antimalarials,
and (4) waxes and gums, including problems relating to
the exportation of these commodities; represents the
Department on the appropriate committees, of the United
States Operating Committees, of the United States-
United Kingdom-Canadian Combined Boards.
Other Factors: Mr. Linville is the only officer of the Department
devoting full time to the procurement programs of the
aforementioned commodities. He has spent full time
since 1941 working on the international aspects of
wartime commodity problems.
April 8, 1944.
Name: Charles P. Nolan
Age: 34
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: A.B. degree in economics, Boston College
M.S. degree in Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Total Experience: 9 years, three months
Experience in Department: 2 years, six months
Experience Related to Present Work: 2 years, six months
Title and Salary: Assistant to the Adviser on Combined Shipping
Adjustment Board, Division of Supply and Resources,
$5,600
Present Work!
Represents the Department on a number of committees
relating to shipping matters including the Shipping
Priorities Adjustment Committee, the Interdepartmental
Air Priorities Committee, the Cargo Forwarding Committee
of the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board, the Export
Tonnage Committee of the Foreign Economic Administration,
the Africa Tonnage Committee and the Latin American Export
Committee of the War Shipping Administration.
April 8, 1944
Name: Parmely W. Herrick
Age: 33
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 2
Education: Harvard University, A.B.
Total Experience: 9 years 10 months
Experience in Department: 2 years
Experience related to present work: 2 years
Title and salary: Internee Camp Inspector, Special War Problems Division
$3800 per annum
Present work:
Mr. Herrick accompanies, as a representative of this
Government, representatives of the Swiss Legation which
acts as protecting Power for German and Italian interests
in the United States, of the Spanish Embassy which acts as
protecting Power for Japanese interests in the United States,
and representatives of the International Red Cross, on
inspection visits to prisoner of war and civilian internee
camps in the United States and, in this connection, serves
as the liaison between the camp commanders and the foreign
representatives.
Other factors:
The number of prisoner of war camps in this country
is expanding and the demands made upon the services of the
inspectors is increasing in direct proportion thereto.
The nature of the work does not permit the delaying of
action in view of the retaliatory measures which might be
taken by enemy governments. Women, no matter how well
qualified by knowledge and training, cannot be employed
on prisoner of war camp inspection work.
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April 8, 1944
Name: William H, McCahon
Aga: 36
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 1
Education: Colgate University, A.B.
Columbia University, M.S.
Total Experience: 12 years 6 months
Experience in Department: 6 months
Experience related to present work: 12 years 6 months
Title and salary: Internee Camp Inspector, Special War Problems Division
$3800 per annum
Present work:
Mr. McCahon accompanies, as a representative of this
Government, representatives of the Swiss Legation which
acts as protecting Power for German and Italian interests
in the United States, of the Spanish Embassy which acts as
protecting Power for Japanese interests in the United States,
and representatives of the International Red Cross, on
inspection visits to prisoner of war and civilian internee
camps in the United States and, in this connection, serves
as the liaison between the camp commanders and the foreign
representatives.
Other factors:
The number of prisoner of war camps in this country
is expanding and the demands made upon the services of the
inspectors is increasing in direct proportion thereto.
The nature of the work does not permit the delaying of
action in view of the retaliatory measures which might be
taken by enemy governments. Women, no matter howell
qualified by knowledge and training, cannot be employed
on prisoner of war camp inspection work.
April 8, 1944
Name: Carl M. Marcy
Age: 30
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor children: 1
Education: Williamette University, A.B.
Columbia University, M.A. and LL.B.
Total Experience: 9 years 6 months
Experience in Department: 1 year 11 months
Experience related to present work: 9 years 6 months
Title and salary: Internee Camp Inspector, Special War Problems Division
$3800 per annum
Present work:
Mr. Marcy accompanies, as a representative of this
Government, representatives of the Swiss Legation which
acts as protecting Power for German and Italian interests
in the United States, of the Spanish Embassy which acts as
protecting Power for Japanese interests in the United States,
and representatives of the International Red Cross, on
inspection visits to prisoner of war and civilian internee
camps in the United States and, in this connection, serves
as the liaison between the camp commanders and the foreign
representatives.
Other factors:
The number of prisoner of war camps in this country
is expanding and the demands made upon the services of the
inspectors is increasing in direct proportion thereto.
The nature of the work does not permit the delaying of
action in view of the retaliatory measures which might be
taken by enemy governments. Women, not matter how well
qualified by knowledge and training, cannot be employed
on prisoner of war camp inspection work.
April 8, 1944
Name: Albert E. Clattenburg
Age: 37
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 2
Education: A.B. degree, University of Pennsylvania
Total Experience: 15 years
Experience in Department: 15 years
Experience Related to Present Work: 15 years
Title and Salary: Assistant Chief, Special War Problems Division,
$6,500
Present Work:
Responsible for representation of United States
interests in enemy and enemy-occupied territories;
supervision of representation of United States and third
powers of interests of countries with which the United
States has severed diplomatic relations or is at war;
including exchange of official and non-official American
and Axis powers personnel.
Other Factors:
It was necessary for the Department to request
Mr. Clattenburg to resign from the Foreign Service 80 that
he might continue in his present position in the capacity
of a Departmental employee. This action was made necessary
because there was no person available to assume the important
responsibilities vested in Mr. Clattenburg's position.
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April 8, 1944.
Name: Walter Hollis
Age: 35
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1 (Step-child, totally dependent)
Education; A.B. degree in history and international relations, Clark
University
A.M. degree in international law and relations, Columbia
University
LL.B. degree in public and international law, Columbia
University
Total Experience: 9 years
Experience in Department: 2 years
Experience Related to Present Work: 7 years
Title and Salary: Divisional Assistant, Division of Commercial Policy,
$4,600
Present Work:
Advises other officers of the Division on legal
problems involved in the conclusion and administration
of trade agreements, commercial treaties, and other
commercial agreements.
Other Factors: Commercial policy is a vitalyimportant part of current
discussions with other governments on future economic
arrangements.
April 8, 1944.
Name: Edward W. Kelly
Age: 36
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Educations Ph.B degree, Loyola University
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Columbus University
Special courses at John Carroll and Northwestern Universities
Special If in economics and government finance at
Farm Security Administration
Total Experience: 15 years
Experience in Department: 10 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 5 years
Title and Salary: Divisional Assistant, Division of Commercial Policy,
$3,800
Present Work:
Serves as the secretary of the Interdepartmental
Trade Agreements Committee and the Interdepartmental
Special Committee on the Relaxation of Trade Barriers.
Serves as the administrative officer of the Division and
general assistant to an Assistant Chief of the Division
responsible for the planning and assignment of work and for
the highly specialized legal and technical aspects and
questions involved in commercial relations of the United
States.
Other Factors: The Division of Commercial Policy is responsible for the
work of the Department of State in the determination of
the foreign commercial policy of the United States and in
the protection and promotion of American commercial and
agricultural interests in foreign countries. This in-
cludes the responsibility for leadership which falls upon
the United States by virtue of its position in inter-
national affairs for promoting international economic
cooperation for the prosecution of war and for laying the
groundwork now for sound commercial policies which can
be accepted throughout the world.
April 8, 1944,
Name: John C. Campbell
Age: 32
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees, Harvard University
Total Experience, 9 years
Experience in Department, 1 year, 7 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 9 years
Title and Salary, Specialist on Eastern European Political Affairs,
Division of Territorial Studies, $4,600
Present Work:
Mr. Campbell is a specialist on Eastern Europe
with particular reference to developments and conditions
in Poland, the U.S.S.R., Rumania and Albania. He is
responsible for the preparation of studies and recom-
mendations relating to the war and to post-war settle-
ments for presentation to the Secretary of State and
the President and for negotiation with other governments,
such as documents for the Moscow Conference, and docu-
ments for submission to the European Advisory Commission;
and serves as expert adviser to officials of the Depart-
ment and other departments and agencies, including repre-
sentation of the Division at interdivisional and inter-
departmental meetings.
Other Factors: (1) Studies and policy recommendations worked out in
the Eastern Hemisphere Division are utilized intensively
by special Departmental committees charged with making
policy proposals to the highest officials of the Depart-
ment. Commonly they are further used in certain inter-
departmental committees on which the War and Navy Depart-
ments are represented. In due course, such recommenda-
tions are transmitted by the Division to the Committee
on Post-War Programs and to the Secretary of State for
reference to and decision by the President. Certain of
these studies are utilized by the representatives of the
United States abroad in presenting the policy of this
Government in negotiations with other governments.
(2) The possibilities of securing B. replacement for
Mr. Campbell with sufficient experience to engage in work
on the urgent political problems of the countries to
which he is assigned are very remote because eligibles
are no longer available outside the armed forces.
April 8, 1944
Name: Thomas C. Mann
Age: 31
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: A.B. and LL.B., Baylor University
Total Experience: 9 years, 9 months
Experience in the Department: 1 year, 7 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 1 year, 10 months
Title and Salary: Acting Assistant Chief, Division of World Trade
Intelligence, $5,600
Present Work:
Responsible for Proclaimed List, financial
controls, export control and related and kindred economic
warfare activities of the Division in the Western Hemis-
phere. This includes encouraging the other American
Republics to adopt controls insuring hemispheric
solidarity in our general economic warfare program
against the Axis, and the development and execution of
ways and means of eliminating Axis corporate spearheads
in Latin America.
Other Factors: Period of training as Foreign Service officer at
Montevideo. Duties at this post involved financial
control and Proclaimed List activities. In addition,
this work brought him into intimate contact with Latin
American problems, business matters and governmental
control measures. Mann is one of the few officers
in the Division who LS had first hand experience in
the field on the hemispheric economic warfare programs.
April 8, 1944
Name: James W. Swihart
Age: 27 (28 on April 13)
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 2
Education: A.B. degree in international relations, Tale University
Training in international law and diplomatic history in
France, Switzerland, and Germany.
Total Experience: 4 years, 4 months
Experience in Department: 4 years, 4 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 4 years, 4 months
Title and Salary: Assistant Ohief, Division of World Trade Intelligence,
$4,600
Present Work:
Shares with Chief responsibility for carrying out
the general functions of the Division, which are the elimi-
nation of Axis firms and activities which could be of
assistance to the Aris in neutral countries and in the
other American republics. These functions are accomplished,
primarily, by (1) application of the Proclaimed List of
Certain Blocked Nationals which prohibite to firms on the
list the use of United States' export and financial facili-
ties, (2) administration of the Confidential List of Unde-
sirable Consignees which results in denying United States'
exports to the firms involved, (3) administration, in con-
junction with the Treasury Department, of the Treasury List
of Special Blocked Nationals which results in the freezing
of all funds of a firm in the United States, (4) stimulation
and assistance in the formulation and application of local
controls by other countries, and (5) various methods of
pressure and control. This program is currently in one of
its most critical and difficult phases and its ultimate
success in permanently eliminating the influence of Fascist
elements and spearhead firms is dependent upon the maintenance
of a vigorous program.
Other Factors:
Mr. Swihart studied for five years in European countries
and has had highly specialized training in international
finance.
The Division has a staff of 94 including 30 officers of
which 4 (including those whose deferments are requested) are
the key officers. The remaining officers are of inferior or
intermediate status and none of them possess the necessary
qualifications for a key position. The Division has previously
lost heavily in its key positions by the draft.
The work is highly specialized and the holding of a key
position requires experience in this field. Those with the
requisite experience (numbering not more than 25) have been
carefully combed and there are no draft-free persons avail-
able.
April 8, 1944
Name: Nat King
Age: 36
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: B.S. degree, Texas Technological College
Total Experience: 15 years
Experience in Department: 1 years, 6 months
Experience Related to Present Work: 1 year, 6 months
Title and Salary: Divisional Assistant, Division of World Trade
Intelligence, $5,600
Present Work:
Mr. King is responsible for the work of the Division
relating to the listing of firms and individuals on the
Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals, the
deletion of firms from the List, the reorganization of
blocked firms, etc., in such other American republics as
Argentina, Chile, Eduador, Bolivia, and the Central
American republics. He instructs our foreign Missions
with regard to negotiating with other American republics
in the enactment, revision and application of local
control laws pursuant to the Rio and Washington Conferences
whereby the activities of enemy firms and individuals
may be kept in check. He attends meetings of the Inter-
departmental Committee on the Proclaimed List in order to
advise that Committee as to financial, economic, and
political conditions within the countries under his
jurisdiction and to substantiate recommendations formulated
by his staff as to proposed additions to or deletions
from the Proclaimed List.
Other Factors:
Mr. King's work in the United States Embassy at
Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Proclaimed List matters has
afforded him the opportunity to witness first hand the
effects of the Proclaimed List and other confidential
lists on the blocking of Axis. firms and individuals in
Latin America which knowledge has proven invaluable to
the development of the Division's programs. Few
officers in the Department outside of those on active
duty in the Foreign Service possess comparable experience.
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April 8, 1944
Name: Jacques J. Reinstein
Age: 32
Number of Pre-Pearl Harbor Children: 1
Education: B.S. degree in economics, Georgetown University,
School of Foreign Service,
Total Experience: 9 years, 9 months
Experience in Department: 8 years
Experience Related to Present Work: 8 years
Title and Salary: Assistant Chief, Division of Financial and
Monetary Affairs, $6,500
Present Work:
In charge of the Current Problems Section having
responsibility for financial and monetary matters con-
cerning liberated areas; assists in the planning and
drafting of directives to theater commanders; handles
such questions as (1) currencies to be used by the
Allied military forces; (2) rates of exchange; (3) financing
of the purchase of civilian supplies; (4) anti-inflation
measures; (5) reestablishment of banking and other
financial relations between the areas liberated and the
United States.
Mr. Reinstein represents the Department at meetings
of the Committee on Fiscal Planning established at the
request of the War Department to facilitate clearance
of policy questions concerning financial matters in
countries to become theaters of operation.
In view of current invasion planning it would be
impossible to recruit and train a replacement for
Mr. Reinstein who is especially well squipped for this
work directly related to the war effort because of
his 8 years experience in the Department's economic
work.
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BOGARDUS, George F.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-115)
Vice Consul, American Consulate, Mombasa, Kenya,
East Africa, $2750
Age: 26 (June 6, 1917)
Married: Child born December 5, 1943
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: Harvard, 1939, B.S.
Languages: French, German and Spanish
Previous Experience: Department of Agriculture, 1939, to
March, 1941
Selective Service Status: II-A expired March 7, 1944, placed
in I-A by Local Board on February 26, 1944. Department
wrote to Board on March 3, 1944, noting an appeal. Order
issued April 1, 1944, by Local Board to report for pre-
induction physical examination on April 17, 1944.
State Department Service: Appointed March 20, 1941; inducted
into Army on March 27, 1941, honorably discharged from the
Army on June 21, 1941 at request of the Secretary of State.
Assigned as Vice Consul to Montreal August 21, 1941;
assigned to the American Consulate at Mombasa, Kenya,
East Africa on February 3, 1944.
As the second ranking officer at Mombasa, Mr. Bogardus
assumes charge during the temporary absence of the principal
officer. The Consulate works in close cooperation with repre-
sentatives of other United States Government agencies stationed
there, namely, the War Shipping Administration, the Foreign
Economic Administration, and the United States Naval Liaison
Officer. Mombasa is an important port by reason of its situa-
tion with reference to United Nations' operations in that
general area. The Consulate is responsible for the supervision
as far as policy matters are concerned of the operations of
other United States Government representatives and for the
taking up with officers of the Colonial Government of all
questions which arise from our operations in the district.
The Consulate assists in the procurement of certain strategic
materials such as pyrethrum needed in the war effort.
Mr. Bogardus is in charge of all the shipping functions of
the office.
BURDETT, William C.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-196)
Vice Consul and Third Secretary, American Embassy,
Madrid, now in the United States awaiting Selective
Service clearance to proceed to post, $2500.
Age: 25 (October 25, 1918)
Single
Appointed: June 10, 1941
Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1941
Languages: Spanish and Portuguese
Selective Service Status: II-A expired March 1, 1944.
State Department Service: After his appointment as Foreign
Service Officer Mr. Burdett was assigned as Vice Consul,
American Consulate General at Guayaquil, Ecuador. In
January, 1944, he was assigned as Third Secretary and
Vice Consul, American Embassy, Madrid. He has just
arrived in the United States en route to his new post
and will proceed as soon as Selective Service clearance
is obtained.
At Guayaquil Mr. Burdett had charge of the Proclaimed
List work in the Guayaquil area. He also worked in the
section of the Embassy handling Decentralized Export Control
matters. This involves working closely with the Embassy at
Quito and the close examination of all applications from
prospective importers in the Guayaquil area for permits to
import from the United States. The applications are checked
from the view point of the essentiality of the transaction
and the good faith of the consignee in order to prevent ex-
ports from the United States going to firms with Axis
sympathies or connections. Mr. Burdett is being assigned to
Madrid because of the urgent need of junior officers for the
war-connected work of the Embassy. He will be engaged chiefly
in economic work. Because of the difficult character of our
relations with Spain, the United States Government's attitude
on the question of exports to Spain and with reference to
other economic questions is very closely geared to the bearing
of these questions on the prosecution of the war.
CATLETT, Don Valentine
Foreign Service Officer (18-385)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul in the American Embassy,
at Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, $2750
Age: 26 (February 14, 1918)
Single
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, 1936-
1940, B.A.
Languages: Knowledge of Spanish and French
Previous Experience: Postal service, 1934-1936; bookstore
manager, 1937-1940; salesman in .manufacturing firm 1940-
1941
* Selective Service Status: II-B expires April 15, 1944
State Department Service: Mr. Catlett has served as Third
Secretary and Vice Consul at Cuidad Trujillo since his
entry into the service in March, 1941.
Mr. Catlett is in charge of the economic work of the
Embassy including Proclaimed List work, Decentralized Export
Control, and Foreign Funds Control work. In addition he pre-
pares detailed economic and financial reports. Mr. Catlett
was especially trained for this wartime economic work having
been ordered to the Department in October, 1942, to attend a
school given by the Department in the work just described.
Under the Decentralized Export Control plan, the Embassy works
very closely with the agencies of the Dominican Republic in
order to assure that the country receives its minimum essential
requirements of scarce materials on the same basis as does
civilian economy in the United States. This work also involves
the preparation of requirements reports showing the needs of
the country for a large number of industrial commodities the
data being used as a basis for allocations by the War Production
Board.
* Mr. Catlett was previously classified IV-F on the basis of the
loss of his right eye. The Local Board, however, in September,
1943, notified the Department that this loss did not necessarily
disqualify him for military service. He was later classified II-B.
CLARK, Harlan Bendell
Foreign Service Officer (FS-787)
Third Secretary of Legation, Pretoria, Union of South
Africa, $3500
Age: 31 (January 5, 1913)
Single
Appointed: September 2, 1937
Education: Michigan State College, A.B., 1935; Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, A.M., 1936
Languages: German, French, Thai, Afrikaans
Selective Service Status: Registered abroad -- registration
not completed
State Department Service: Mr. Clark has served as Vice Consul
at Zurich, Switzerland, Birmingham, Bangkok and Capetown,
and since October, 1943, at Pretoria.
Mr. Clark serves in the economic section of the Legation.
He prepares reports on developments in South African industries
and agriculture and has supervision of the finance control work
of the Embassy which includes working with the South African
Reserve Bank in connection with the return to the United States
of United States dollar currency, treasury checks, etc. He also
works closely with the representatives of other United States
Government agencies such as War Shipping Administration, Office
of War Information and the Foreign Economic Administration,
The activities of these representatives are, in so far as policy
matters concerned under the supervision of the Legation. Mr. Clark
also is responsible for the compilation of data on port stocks
which are telegraphed to the Department monthly for use in the
allocation of cargo space to South African ports.
CORY, Thomas J.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-404)
Vice Consul in charge of Vice Consulate at La Guaira,
Venezuela, $3500.
Age: 29 (June 15, 1914)
Married: July 12, 1936; no children.
Appointed: November 16, 1939
Education: Schools in Spain and France; University of
California, Los Angeles, B.A. 1935.
Languages: Fluent knowledge of Spanish and French
Previous Experience: Agricultural Engineer, 1935-1938.
Selective Service Status: II-A expires April 15, 1944.
State Department Service: Mr. Cory has served as Vice Consul
at Vancouver and Trail, British Columbia, and Barcelona,
and since August, 1943, at La Guaira.
Mr. Cory is in charge of the Vice Consulate and the only
officer assigned there. La Guaira is the principal commercial
port of Venezuela. The volume of consular shipping work is
heavy and in addition Mr. Cory acts as Navy Reporting Officer.
This involves the prompt reporting of all movements of ships
and cargo in and out of the port as well as the transmission
of instructions concerning the routing and escorting of these
vessels. He is responsible for the performance of all consular
functions at the post including the certification of invoices,
citizenship services, investigation of activities in connection
with the Proclaimed List, the protection of Americans and
economic and political reporting.
DAGGETT, Forrest N.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-59)
Vice Consul in charge of the American Vice-Consulate
at Manaos, Brazil, $2500.
Age: 26 (July 16, 1917)
Married: April 2, 1941
Appointed: February 20, 1942
Education: California Institute of Technology 1934-1935;
University of California, B.A., 1939; School of
Jurisprudence 1939-1940; Stanford University School of
Business, 1940-1941.
Languages: Knowledge of French and Portuguese
Previous Experience: Office assistant with Douglas Aircraft,
Santa Monica, California, 1940-1942; liaison officer,
British Purchasing Commission, September to November, 1941.
Selective Service Status: II-A expires April 21, 1944
State Department Service: Mr. Daggett has served as Vice
Consul in charge of the Vice-Consulate at Manaos since
February, 1942.
Manaos lies half way up the Amazon River isolated from
the rest of Brazil. It is the focal point for the collection
of rubber urgently needed for war production. Mr. Daggett
handles all questions which must be taken up with local Bra-
zilian officials that arise in connection with the rubber pro-
gram. He handles Proclaimed List work in the area and in addi-
tion performs all the normal duties of a consular office.
Because of the difficult living conditions at Manaos and its
isolated position it is most difficult to recruit qualified
men who would be willing to accept an appointment at Manaos.
de ZENGOTITA, Juan
Foreign Service Officer (FS-405)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul in the American Embassy
at La Paz, Bolivia, $2750
Age: 30 (March 13, 1914)
Married: April 7, 1941; one child born July 27, 1943.
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: Columbia University, New York, B.A. 1938,
Law School 1938-1939.
Languages: Fluent knowledge of Spanish
Previous Experience: Stenographer and translator with
insurance company in Puerto Rico, 1931-1932; with oil
company 1933-1934; personnel assistant in business firm
1939-1940; office assistant in concrete company 1940-1941.
Selective Service Status: II-A expires April 15, 1944.
State Department Service: Mr. de Zengotita has served at Habana
and Antilla, Cuba, and Bucaramanga, Colombia. He was as-
signed to La Paz in August, 1943.
Mr. deZengotita is engaged in economic work with parti-
cular reference to the procurement of strategic materials
needed for United States war production. In this connection he
acts as liaison officer with the Bolivian Office of Economic
Defense. He also serves as administrative officer of the
Embassy, this requires a thorough knowledge of diplomatic and
consular work. Because of the non-recognition by the United
States of the present Bolivian regime it would be unwise to
reduce the officer staff of the Embassy at this time.
FOLSOM, Robert S.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-162)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul at the Embassy,
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, $2750.
Age: 28 (April 29, 1915)
Married. Child born March 3, 1943
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: Tuft College, A.B., 1938; Fletcher School of
Diplomacy, M.A., 1939, M.A.L.D., 1941, completed all
work for Ph.D. except thesis.
Languages: French
Selective Service Status: II-B expired February 25, 1944. On
March 27, 1944, his Local Board contânued II-B until
August 25, 1944. Department on March 30, 1944, wrote
Board that Form 42 and Supplement would be sent when case
cleared by Review Committee.
State Department Service: Mr. Folsom has been serving as Third
Secretary and Vice Consul at Port-au-Prince since his
appointment in March 1941.
Mr. Folsom is in charge of the Decentralized Export Control
Section and the Requirements Reporting Section of the Embassy.
He was ordered to the Department to attend a Foreign Service
school in wartime economic work during January and February,
1943. This work is part of the program of hemispheric defense,
the object being to assure the supply of the minimum essential
needs of the other American Republics in order to maintain
economic stability and enable each country to make its maximum
contribution to the war effort. Requirements reports contain-
ing detailed data regarding the country's needs of a large number
of scarce commodities with special attention to intended use
are prepared by this section. The Decantralized Export control
unit works very closely with the Haitian Government examining
all applications to import from the United States checking use, and
consignees. Approved requests are forwarded for action in
Washington by Foreign Economic Administration in granting or
denying export licenses.
HANSON, Henry Jr.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-374)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul in the American
Legation at Stockholm, Sweden, $2750.
Age: 25 (November 6, 1918)
Single
Appointed: February 20, 1942
Education: Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1936-
1940, B.A.; Harvard University, 1940-1941, M. A.
Languages: Knowledge of Swedish, French, and German
Previous Experience: Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.,
1941-1942.
Selective Service Status: II-B expires April 11, 1944.
State Department Service: After passing in September, 1941, the
difficult entrance examination for the Foreign Service,
Mr. Hanson was appointed a Foreign Service Officer on
February 20, 1942, and very shortly thereafter was assigned
to Stockholm, Sweden, where he has since served.
Mr. Hanson works in the Special Reporting Section of the
Legation. Because of its locality and neutral status and the
fact that a very considerable amount of civilian travel still
exists between Sweden and Germany and German occupied Europe,
Sweden is a most important source of political, military and
economic information regarding Germany and occupied territories.
Mr. Henderson is particularly charged with obtaining information
and preparation of reports concerning conditions in Germany and
Norway. His knowledge of Swedish, French and German is parti-
cularly helpful in this work. Information is obtained from all
available sources. Mr. Hanson interviews returning travelers.
The work requires skillful approach, ability to establish con-
tacts and to appraise information received. The information so
obtained is of marked interest and value to the Department and
to the military authorities.
HENDERSON, Douglas
Foreign Service Officer (FS-296)
Vice Consul in charge of the American Consulate at
Cochabamba, Bolivia, $2750.
Age: 29 (October 15, 1914)
Married: February 12, 1942
Appointed: February 20, 1942
Education: Boston University, 1940, B.S.; Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, 1941, M.A.
Languages: Spanish
Previous Experience: Instructor, Tufts College, 1941-1942
Selective Service Status: II-B expires April 20, 1944
State Department Service: Mr. Henderson has served as Vice
Consul at Nogales, Mexico, at Arica, Chile, and since
November, 1943, at Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he is in
charge of the Consulate.
While Mr. Henderson is responsible for the performance of
all consular functions, his chief work is in wartime economic
operations. Cochabamba lies in the center of the United States
Rubber Development Corporation operations in Bolivia and is
also an important source of cinchona production. Mr. Henderson
is responsible for the supervision of the work of the represen-
tatives of other United States Government agencies -- Rubber
Development and the Foreign Economic Administration as far as
policy matters are concerned and for the handling of all questions
with the Bolivian Government officials that arise in connection
with our operations there. There is also a considerable amount
of American citizenship and protection work to be done. Political
reporting of the office is also of importance particularly under
the present disturbed conditions in Bolivia, Cochabamba being the
seat of a military school which exercises an important influence
on political movements. The present Bolivian Government is not
recognized by the United States and the work just described requires
skillful and experienced handling.
HENRY, David H., II Foreign Service Officer (FS-159)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul, Legation, Beirut,
Lebanon, 2750
Age: 25 (May 19, 1918)
Single
Appointed: April 7, 1941
Education: Hobart College, 1935-1937; Institute de Toursine,
1937; Universite de Paris, 1937-1938; Columbia University,
A.B., 1939
Languages: French
Previous Experience: Salesmen with insurance company from
1940-1941
Selective Service Status: II-A expired March 1, 1944.
Local Board wrote March 3, 1944 asking for request
for occupational deferment, if desired. Department on
March 13, 1944 wrote Board, stating case had been approved
by Department's Agency Committee but not yet by the Re-
view Committee.
State Department Service: After appointment as Foreign Service
Officer in March 1941, assigned as Vice Consul at
Montreal. In March 1942, assigned Third Secretary and
Vice Consul at American Legation, Beirut, Lebanon.
The Legation at Beirut is a combined office performing
both diplomatic and consular duties. The strategic geograph-
ical position of Beirut, together with the confused and
delicate political situation there resulting from conflict
of various national and racial groups, makes the work of the
Legation particularly important with reference to United
Nations military operations in the Near East. Mr. Henry's
chief duties are in the consular section. He is in charge
of American citizenship and passport work, the protection
of American citizens, and visa work. The number of American
citizens living in Lebanon is relatively large and under
wartime regulations, this work must be handled with particular
care. Mr. Henry also prepares political reports.
LUEDERS, Duene Bernard Foreign Service Officer (FS-381)
Vice Consul, Third Secretary, Embassy, Asuncion,
Paraguay, $2500
Age: 24 (September 21, 1919)
Single
Appointed: June 20, 1942
Education: Harvard University, B.S., 1941; University of
Minnesota (Summer School), 1940
Languages: Spanish, German
Previous Experience: Six months as Divisional Assistant
in Department of State
Selective Service Status: II-A expires April 25, 1944
State Department Service: Mr. Lueders passed the Foreign
Service entrance examinations in the last half of 1941
and, pending his appointment as Foreign Service Officer,
was made Divisional Assistant in the Department of State
in February 1942. Upon his appointment as Foreign Ser-
vice Officer, he was assigned Vice Consul at Montevideo
in June 1942. In May 1943 he was assigned as Third
Secretary and Vice Consul at Asuncion, Paraguay.
The Axis influence with headquarters in the Argentine
1s still active in the neighboring republics, as is evidenced
by recent developments in Bolivia and by efforts still active
in Paraguay. Mr. Lueders assists in the Proclaimed List work
of the Embassy. He also is in charge of certain consular
work, including documentation of merchandise, the protection
of American citizens, American passport and citizenship work,
and visa work.
MCSWEENEY, John Morgan Foreign Service Officer (FS-165)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul, Legation, Cairo, Egypt,
$3000
Age: 27 (June 29, 1916)
Single
Appointed: July 12, 1940
Education: Brown University, B.A., 1938
Language: French
Previous Experience: Marketing research for manufacturing
corporation, 1939-1940
Selective Service Status: II-B expires April 7, 1944
State Department Service: Upon his appointment as Foreign
Service Officer in July 1940 he was assigned Vice Consul
at Montreal. He attended the Foreign Service School in
the Department in the latter half of 1941 and was there-
after assigned as Vice Consul at Lagos, Nigeria. Early
in 1943 he was assigned Vice Consul at Accra, Gold Coast,
West Africa, end in October 1943 was assigned to Cairo
as Third Secretary and Vice Consul.
The work of the Legation at Cairo, a combined office
performing both diplomatic and consular functions, is closely
connected with the prosecution of the war, Cairo being the
headquarters of United Nations combat operations in the Near
East. It is also the headquarters of the Middle East Supply
Center, a combined United States-United Kingdom organization.
The chief function of this organization is the handling of
all civilian supply questions covering EL very wide area, in-
cluding Malta, the Middle East, and various parts in Africa,
including Abyssinia. The maintenance of economic stability
and the keeping of the various political areas in the Middle
East aligned with the United Nations war effort are part-
icularly complicated. Mr. McSweeney handles visa work,
American passport and citizenship work, and the certification
of consular invoices.
O'NEILL, W. Paul Foreign Service Officer (FS-279)
Vice Consul at American Consulate, Tunis, Tunisia, $2750
Age: 28 (July 18, 1915)
Married: May 25, 1941, one child born January 2, 1943
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: Princeton, A.B., 1938
Language: French
Selective Service Status: II-A expired March 4, 1944. Local
Board informed the Department on February 29, 1944 that
the case was being reopened. Department replied that
his case had not yet received approval of Review Committee.
State Department Service: Upon his appointment as a Foreign
Service Officer, Mr. O'Neill was assigned as Vice Consul
at Winnipeg. In July 1943 he was assigned Vice Consul
at Tunis.
Mr. O'Neill is the second-ranking officer in the Consulate
and in the temporary absence of the principal officer, assumes
charge. A considerable part of the work of the office consists
of close cooperation with the representatives of other United
States Government agencies in Tunisia, the State Department
representatives being responsible for the seeing that their
operations conform to our political policies. Mr. O'Neill
is in charge of the visa and American passport and citizen-
ship sections of the office.
There is a considerable amount of work in connection
with the protection of Americans and American property in
the district. Important also is work arising from the
fact that Tunis is a base of combat operations, necessi-
tating the handling of many questions with our armed forces
and with local government officials.
PALMER, Joseph, 2nd,
Foreign Service Officer (FS-288)
Vice Consul, Consulate General, Nairobi, Kenya, East
Africa, $3000
Age: 29 (June 16, 1914)
Married: May 10, 1941; son, born March 30, 1943
Appointed: January 18, 1940
Education: Philips Exeter, Harvard University, B.S., 1937;
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, 1937-
1938.
Languages: French and Spanish
Previous Experience: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1938-1939.
Selective Service Status: II-B expires April 6, 1944
State Department Service: Upon his appointment as Foreign Service
Officer in January, 1940, he was assigned Vice Consul to
Mexico City. During the first six months of 1941 he attended
the Foreign Service School in the Department and in June,
1941 was assigned Vice Consul at Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa.
As the second ranking officer at the post Mr. Palmer assumes
charge of the Consulate General during the temporary absence of
the principal officer. He assists the Officer in Charge in the
preparation of political and economic reports. Kenya is im-
portant as a source of strategic materials needed for war pro-
duction such as sisal, pyrethrum and tantalite. The Consulate
General is responsible for the general supervision as far as
policy is involved of the operations of the representatives of
United States Government agencies in the colony, also all re-
presentations and discussions with government officials re-
garding purchasing programs, etc. Mr. Palmer does a large amount
of special work in connection with the obtaining of effective
publicity of Office of War Information material in British
East Africa. He is also in charge of visa work, American pass-
port and citizenship work.
SANDERS, Terry Bentley, Jr.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-160)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul at the Embassy, Mexico,
D.F., Mexico, $2500
Age: 26 (November 18, 1917)
Married: April 8, 1942 - no children
Appointed: October 14, 1940
Education: Yale, A.B., 1939; Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, M.A., 1940
Languages: Spanish
Selective Service Status: II-B expired March 1, 1944, classi-
fied I-A by Local Board on March 24, 1944. On April 3,
1944, Department wrote Board noting an appeal until the
question of requesting occupational deferment for him is
clarified.
State Department Service: Mr. Sanders since his initial appoint-
ment in the Foreign Service has served as Vice Consul at
Riohacha, Puerto de la Cruz, Managua and since August, 1943,
as Third Secretary and Vice Consul at Mexico City.
Mr. Sanders is chief assistant of the officer in charge
of the consular section of the Embassy. In addition to its
purely local work, the Embassy is responsible for the super-
vision of the twenty-five consular establishments in Mexico.
Mr. Sanders is also in charge of the invoice and notarial
section of the Embassy. Because of his fluent knowledge of
Spanish and his understanding of consular work, he is parti-
cularly useful and could not be replaced except by an experienced
man.
SPEER, James Paul, II
Foreign Service Officer (FS-25)
Secretary, American Mission, New Delhi, India, also
commissioned as Vice Consul, American Consulate General,
Calcutta, India, $2750
Age: 26 (October 13, 1917)
Married: November 20, 1940; one pre-Pearl Harbor child
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: George Washington University, 1935-1941
Language: Spanish
Selective Service Status: II-A expired March 29, 1944, classi-
fied I-A March 16, 1944 by Local Board. Department wrote
Local Board on March 18, 1944, noting an appeal pending
clarification of the requesting of his occupational defer-
ment.
State Department Service: After his appointment in March, 1941,
as Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Speer was assigned as Vice
Consul, later also Third Secretary at Mexico City. Assigned
as Vice Consul at Valdivia, March, 1942; as Vice Consul at
Arica, September, 1942, and in September, 1943, assigned
as Secretary, American Mission, New Delhi, India.
The work of the American Mission at New Delhi is almost
wholly directly connected with the prosecution of the war.
Due to the presence of United States armed forces in India,
a large number of urgent matters must be taken up by the
Mission with the Government of India and with military head-
quarters in that area. Mr. Speer handles administration and
American citizenship matters, passport and protection work and
performs such other work of the Mission as is assigned to him.
USHER, Richard Ellison
Foreign Service Officer (FS-167)
Vice Consul, Consulate, Colombo, Ceylon, $2750
Age: 24 (April 15, 1919)
Single
Appointed: February 20, 1942
Education: University of Wisconsin, B.A., 1941
Languages: German and French
Selective Service Status: II-B expired on February 19, 1944.
On February 25, 1944, classified I-A by Local Board to
which Department on March 2, 1944, noted an appeal pending
clarification of the requesting of his occupational defer-
ment. Order to report for preinduction physical examination
issued March 6, 1944.
State Department Service: Upon his appointment as Foreign
Service Officer in February, 1942, Mr. Usher was assigned
as Vice Consul at Winnipeg. In March, 1943, he was assigned
Vice Consul at the American Consulate at Colombo, Ceylon.
As the second ranking officer at Colombo, Mr. Usher assumes
charge of the office during the temporary absence of the prin-
cipal officer. The United Nations' combat operations under Lord
Louis Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief of East Asia operations and
his Deputy Chief-of-Staff, General Wedemeyer, United States Army,
have created a heavy volume of work for the Consulate at Colombo
directly connected with the prosecution of the war. For security
reasons this cannot be discussed in detail. Mr. Usher's duties
include all the shipping work of the office involving the sign-
ing on and discharging of members of the crew of vessels of
American registry, the relief and repatriation of American seamen
and the handling of all other problems connected with the ex-
peditious movement of American merchant marine vessels and the
most effective use of available cargo space. Mr. Usher also
prepares economic reports.
MARCY, Oliver M.
Foreign Service Officer (FS-371)
Vice Consul, Consulate, Arica, Chile, $2500
Age: 24 (April 30, 1919)
Married: February 13, 1942, no children
Appointed: October 1, 1941
Education: Amherst College, A.B., 1940; Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, A.M., 1941
Languages: French and Spanish
Selective Service Status: II-B expired April 1, 1944. On
March 30, 1944, classified by Local Board in IV-F.
IV-F based on missing index finger and middle finger on
right hand. Right leg shorter than left.
State Department Service: After he had, in the last half of
1941, passed the Foreign Service entrance examination, but
before appointment as a Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Marcy
served as Vice Consul at La Paz, Bolivia. Mr. Marcy was,
in February 1942, assigned as Vice Consul at La Paz. As-
signed to Arica in January, 1944, as Vice Consul.
Mr. Marcy is the only officer on duty at Arica and is there-
fore required to perform all consular functions, shipping, American
passport and citizenship, visa work, etc. The office was opened
because of war-connected reasons. A large volume of inward and
outward Bolivian cargo moves through Arica. This includes tin
and metal ores for United States war production and lumber from
the United States for Bolivian mines. The district has an active
German colony and a Spanish Falangist party. There is thus a
considerable amount of political intelligence and Proclaimed List
work. There has been some smuggling from Peru of strategic
materials on behalf of Axis agents that has required watching,
the Chile-Peru border being close to Arica.
BYRNS, Kenneth Antrim
Foreign Service Officer (FS-125)
Vice Consul, Part Elizabeth, Union of South Africa,
$2750
Age: 32 (February 18, 1912)
Married! February 18, 1933
Appointed: March 20, 1941
Education: Colorado State College of Education, B.A., 1930-
1933; San Diego State College, M.A., 1939-1941; Foreign
Service.
Languages: French and Spanish
Previous Experience: Teacher, Hugo, Colorado, 1933-1935;
Commanding Officer, C.C.C., 1935-1936; teacher, Rifle,
Colorado, 1936-1937.
Selective Service Status: II-B until May, 1944.
State Department Service: After his appointment as Foreign
Service Officer in March, 1941, Mr. Byrns was assigned
Vice Consul, Nogales, Mexico, and in November, 1941 ap-
pointed Third Secretary, American Embassy, Mexico City.
In July, 1942, he was assigned Vice Consul, Vera Cruz,
Mexico, and in May, 1943, he was assigned Vice Consul
at Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa where he has
since served.
The Consulate at Port Elizabeth is staffed by two officers.
Mr. Burns assumes charge in the temporary absence of the princi-
pal officer. While he performs a wide range of duties his chief
work is the handling of shipping, of American passport and citi-
zenship matters, and visa work. Because of its location, Port
Elizabeth is a most important port in war connected shipping.
Mr. Byrns prepares reports on movements of ships and cargo through
the port and handles all consular work relating to shipping such
as signing on and discharging of American seamen, relièf and re-
patriation of American seamen and various other services. The
examination of all documents presented in connection with claims
of American citizenship or applications for visas must be handled
with particular care in order to prevent the entry into the United
States of persons who might engage in subversive activities.
HAWKINS, Richard Hays, Jr.
Foreign Service Officer (FS817)
Vice Consul, Consulate General, Sydney, Australia,
$3500
Age: 31 (March 22, 1913)
Married: April 23, 1938, two children (one pre-Pearl Harbor)
Appointed: March 2, 1939
Education: Yale University, A.B., 1934; Ecole Libre des
Sciences Politiques, diploma, 1936.
Languages: French
Previous Experience: Parke, Davis and Company, Detroit,
November 1938-March, 1939.
Selective Service Status: Registered abroad -- registration not
yet completed.
State Department Service: Upon his appointment as Foreign
Service Officer in March, 1939, he was assigned Vice
Consul at Vancouver. He attended the Foreign Service
School, Department of State, in the last half of 1939;
assigned Vice Consul, Brisbane, June, 1940; he was in
December, 1940, assigned Vice Consul at Sydney, Australia,
where he has since served with the exception of a period
of about two months -- November and December, 1941 when
he served as Vice Consul at Melbourne.
Sydney is an important base of United States combat opera-
tions in the South Pacific. There have been for sometime in the
Sydney area large numbers of American armed forces. The work
of the Consulate General is almost entirely and directly con-
nected with the prosecution of the war. Mr. Hawkins' chief
duties consist of liaison work with the United States Navy
Headquarters in Sydney and the coordination of war shipping
administration activities in the Sydney Consular district. The
volume of United States merchant shipping carrying war important
cargo both in and out of the port is very heavy and the Consu-
late General renders important service in expediting the move-
ment of shipping. Mr. Hawkins is in charge of all work at the
Sydney office relating to shipping and seamen. While these are
his main duties, the staff of the office must function as a team
and Mr. Hawkins performs many other duties including close work
with the representatives in Sydney of the Foreign Economic Ad-
ministration and the Office of War Information.
OLDS, Herbert Vincent
Foreign Service Officer (FS-285)
Vice Consul, Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, $3500
Age: 30 (December 19, 1913)
Married: June 26, 1937. Two pre-Pearl Harbor children, one
post-Pearl Harbor child.
Appointed: July 8, 1937
Education: Harvard University, A.B., 1934; Columbia University,
1936
Languages: French and Spanish
Selective Service Status: II-B expires May 5, 1944
State Department Service: Since his appointment in July, 1937,
Mr. Olds has served as Vice Consul at Habana, Rotterdam,
and since September, 1941 at Buenos Aires. He has had
six and one-half years experience as a Foreign Service Offi-
cer.
Mr. Olda is in charge of the Shipping Section of the Con-
sulate General and of the Visa Section. Because of the diffi-
cult character or our relations with the present government of
the Argentine, the work of the Embassy is directly concerned
with the checking and elimination of Axis influences which is
centered in the Argentine and endeavoring to expand in the
neighboring republics, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile. The handling
of shipping involves many complicated problems including the
most effective use of available cargo space for the shipment in
both directions of cargo, the movement of which is important to
the war effort. Particular care must be taken in the handling
of applications and visas in order to prevent the entrance into
the United States by false documents of persons endeavoring to
enter the United States to engage in subversive activities.
DAVENPORT, Philip McClellan Foreign Service Officer (FS-827)
Vice Consul, American Consulate, Karachi, India
$3500
Age: 28 (December 21, 1915)
Single
Appointed: July 6, 1938
Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1937; Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, M.A., 1938.
Languages: German, French, Chinese
Selective Service Status: Registered abroad -- registration
not yet completed. Review Committee on March 23, 1944,
approved occupational deferment for 90 days only.
State Department Service: Upon appointment as Foreign Service
Officer in July 1938, was assigned Vice Consul at Berlin.
Attended Foreigh Service School, Department of State from
January to June, 1939. Vice Consul at Canton, January,
1940, and Vice Consul at Karachi, India since July, 1942
(was interned by the Japanese immediately after Pearl
Harbor, released on the first exchange ship from Japan
about June, 1942)
Mr. Davenport's chief duties consist of the preparation
of frequent reports of the stocks of strategic materials which
are moved through the port of Karachi. He handles all American
merchant marine shipping matters at the port. He also handles
all work connected with the administration of United States
Import Controls, such as Order M-63 which provides that sertain
strategic materials may be imported to the United States only
when consigned to an agency of the United States Government.
He also handles work connected with financial controls including
arrangements for the return to the United States of all United
States Treasury checks cashed in the consulate district by
members of the United States armed forces. Because of the pre-
sence of our armed forces in India the work of our consular
offices in India is closely connected with the prosecution of
the war.
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FLUHARTY, Vernon Lee
Foreign Service Officer (FS-833)
Vice Consul, Consulate, Medellin, Colombia, $3500
Age: 36 (August 1, 1907)
Married: July 22, 1929; one pre-Pearl Harbor child
Appointed: August 10, 1938
Education: Ohio State University, A.B., 1936; B.Sc., 1937;
graduate work, 1937-1938
Languages: Spanish and French
Previous Experience: Newspaper reporter, 1927-1929; musician,
1936-1937; instructor, Ohio State University, 1937-1938.
Selective Service Status: Registered abroad -- registration not
yet completed. Review Committee on March 23, 1944, approved
occupational deferment for 90 days only.
State Department Service: Upon his appointment as a Foreign
Service Officer in July, 1938, Mr. Fluharty was assigned
Vice Consul at Cuidad Juarez, Mexico. He attended the
Foreign Service School, Department of State, July to
December, 1939. Assigned Vice Consul and Third Secretary,
American Embassy at Bogotá in January, 1940; assigned
Vice Consul at Medellin, Colombia, July, 1941.
As Officer in Charge of the Consulate, Mr. Fluharty is
responsible for the performance of all consular duties. Be-
cause of Colombia's proximity to the Panama Canal, the large
contribution that it is making in supplying strategic materials
to the United States and the large degree of aid that it is giving
to United States armed forces operating in that area and from
Colombian bases, the work of our offices in Colombia is very
closely connected with the prosecution of the war. Mr. Fluharty
handles all negotiations with local government officials re-
garding the procurement of strategic materials. The Medellin
consular district is a most important source of platinum urgently
needed for war production. It also supplies important quantities
of rubber. The city is an important political, financial, and
industrial center. Mr. Fluharty also handles a large amount of
Proclaimed List work since the number of persons in that locality
of German nationality and German extraction is large.
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FRITZLAN, A. David
Foreign Service Officer (FS-820)
Vice Consul, Consulate, Basra, Iraq, $3500
Age: 29 (June 20, 1914)
Single
Appointed: July 6, 1938
Education: Northwest Nazarene College, B.A., 1934; University
of Kentucky, M.A., 1936; Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, 1937-1938.
Languages: French, some Arabic and Persian
Selective Service Status: Registered abroad -- registration
not yet completed. Review Committee on March 23, 1944,
approved occupational deferment for 90 days only.
State Department Service: Mr. Fritzlan on his appointment as
a Foreign Service Officer in July, 1938, was assigned
as Vice Consul at Naples. He has since served at Baghdad,
Tehran, and since August, 1942, as Vice Consul at Basra,
Iraq.
The work of the Basra Consulate is almost entirely con-
cerned directly with the prosecution of the war. Basra is the
port through which all United States Lend-Lease supplies to
Russia pass which are sent via the Persian Gulf route. This in-
volves a heavy amount of work on the Consulate. Mr. Fritzlan
is the second ranking officer of the post and in the temporary
absence of the principal officer assumes charge. He handles
all shipping matters at the port, the volume of which is heavy
and the movement of ships must be expedited as much as possible.
He also prepares political reports. It is vitally important that
Iraq be kept aligned with the United Nations because of its
strategic location. Early in the war German efforts and propaganda
were particularly strong; while the situation is now under control
constant alertness is essential. Mr. Fritzlan also handles
American passport and citizenship matters, and visas.
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ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
State
WASHINGTON, D.C.
sentyl SIR this
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
4/11/44-
April 11, 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR JUDGE ROSENMAN
In connection with your memor andum of April 8th
setting forth the President's decision concerning
the deferment of Foreign Service officers, we shall,
of course, have to prepare a circular telegram to
our missions and consulates abroad. Before drafting
this telegram, I want to be perfectly sure that we
have accurately understood the President's decision.
Basing ourselves on your memorandum, our understanding
1s that all Foreign Service officers who have passed
their 30th birthday are to be deferred on condition
that they have had five years' experience in the
Service and that no Foreign Service officer who has
not attained his 30th birthday may be deferred unless
besides having had five years' experience in the
Foreign Service he is also a pre-Pearl Harbor father.
If you would confirm this understanding of ours, I
should be much obliged.
S.Hnoland shaw
G. Howland Shaw
Assistant Secretary
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April 28, 1944
Dear Mr. Shaw:
Thank you for your letter of April
twenty-seventh, enclosing list of Foreign
Service officers who do not meet the re-
quirements laid down by the President for
deferment.
with respect to the last paragraph
of your letter, I do not know whether you
know that the Selective Service System has
made provisions to register and examine
medically and induot men overseas without
the necessity of bringing them back. I
should strongly urge that this be done
with respect to all of these men because
a substantial percentage of them will
probably not pass the physical examination
and need not be returned. Those who do
pase can be inducted abroad without the
necessity of bringing them back -- although,
of course, their families will have to come
baok.
Very sincerely,
BAMUEL I. ROSEHMAN
Special Counsel to the
President
Honorable G. Howland Shaw,
Assistant Secretary of State,
Washington, D. C.
sir/tmb
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
April 27, 1944
Dear Judge Rosenman:
I enclose a list of those Foreign Service
officers who under the tests confirmed by your
letter of April 20, 1944 are to be deferred;
and of those officers who failed to meet the
criteria. In all, 124 Foreign Service officers
will eventually be lost to the Department under
the directive of the President, while the Depart-
ment may seek deferment of the remaining 167
officers meeting the prescribed tests.
The Department will immediately endeavor
to recruit replacements for the officer personnel
not meeting the deferment requirements, and funds
will be asked of the Congress to permit of the
return of the individual officers concerned,
their families and effects, and to cover trans-
portation costs incident to the replacement
program.
Yours sincerely,
Enclosures:
Came.
Lists.
G. Howland Shaw
Judge Samuel I. Rosenman,
The White House.
STATISTICS BY AGE OF PRE-PEARL HARDOR FATHER CASES
SUBMITTED TO REVIEW COMMITTEE
Age
No. Cases
Approved
Approved
Approved
Disapproved
Submitted
6 Months
90 Days
60 Days
27
1
0
0
o
1
28
2
o
o
o
2
29
2
o
o
1
1
30
1
o
o
o
1
31
6
0
1
1
4
32
5
o
o
o
5
33
6
1
2
0
3
34
11
1
3
o
7
35
7
4
o
o
3
36
17
9
3
1
4
37
12
10
1
o
1
Totals
70
25
10
3
32
STATEMENTS en CASTA TOT 100 :1. 10mg 17 1177°C COLLITINE
AT ITS 110 - HILLS 18 INQUIRED
Cases not annroved for 6 nonths
45
Review Committee's decision not to be appealed
E
Cases anproved for GO days
2
Cases disannroved
6
Total cases to be appealed
37
Cases approved for 60 days
6 tonths deferment required
1
Cases enproved for 90 days
G conths deferrent required
10
Cases disaporoved
26
6 nonths deferrent required
...
18
90 days deferment required
....
8
BREAKDOWN OF 45- CASES
NOT APPROVED FOR 6 MONTHS BY REVIEW CONNITTEE
April 6, 1944
Minimum
Divi-
Approved
Approved
Deferment
sion
Name
Age
90 Days
60 Days
Disapproved
Required
Remarks
AD 5600
Bell, John 0.
31
M
1
1100
insure "
6 months
Ciriction
Roper, Coorge S.
36
10ml x generally you Pull
6 months
90 days
AM
Duter, Ralph
33
M
Hawkins, Charles
31
x
G-ponths
90 days
ARA
Barber, Millard
34
x
6 months
BP
Kissick, Harold
33
X
6 months
Malcavich, Walter
34
x
6 months
CD
Leftus, John A.
32
X
6 months
Phillips, William T.
34
M
6 months
Cale, Edward G.
36
x
5 months
CSA
Brigge. Kiles E.
34
I
6 months
Phelps, George
35
x
6 months
DCR
Browne, Elwood
31
x
6 months
DP
Forbes, John T.
32
x
90 days
Haskell, Pred B.
28
K
6 months
Ryan, Robert J.
29
x
6 months
EH
Gilpatric, Donald
34
x
6 months
FPO
King, Leland W.
36
x
6 months
Ge
Icke, Paul %.
34
x
6 months
ISO
Creen, James F.
33
x
6 months
LA
Miller, [dward G.
32
x
6 months
-2-
Minimum
Divi-
Approved
Approved
Deferment
sion
Name
Age
90 Days
60 Days
Disapproved
Required
Remarks
LRD
Simpson, Robert S.
37
x
6 months
OPI
Jones, Samuel S.
34
x
6 months
PD
Reeves, Edwy L.
35
x
90 days
SR
Linville,Francis, D.
34
x
90 days
Nolan, Charles P.
34
x
90 days
SWP
Herrick, "armely
33
x
6 months
McCahon, William H-
36
X
6 months
Marcy, Carl N.
30
x
6 months
Clattenburg,
37
x
6 months
TA
Hollis, Walter
35
x
6 months
Kelly, Edward W.
36
x
90 days
TS
Campbell, John C.
32
x
90 days
WI
Mann, Thomas C.
31
x
90 days
Swihart, James W.
27
x
90 days
King, Nat P.
36
x
6 months
FMA
Reinstein,J Jacques J.
32
x
6 months
Cases for which no further request for deferment to be made
AM
Holsinger, Otto
31
CSA
Geele, James R.
36
DCR
Lawler, Norton
33
KH
Barnes, Courtland
36
WT
Monama, George N.
34
Commit- Allen, Ward P.
28
tee for
Pelitical
Defense
Cases approved for 60 days-not to be appealed
DP
Morgan, James T.
29
D
Cenn, George
31
LIST OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS WHO DO not THE POLLOWING
REQUIREDORITS POR DEPERMENT:
-36
(1) 30 and over with five years' experience.
(a) Under 30 with five years' expetionce and at
36
least one pre-Pearl Harbor child.
125
Marital
Date of
Name
Age
Status
Post
Appointment
Bagby, Philip Haxall
25
S
Calcutta
March 20, 1941
Bentley, Alvin M.
25
M-2+
Mexico City
February 20, 1942
Brandin, Robert Mead
25
5
Madrid
February 20, 1942
Burdett, Jr., William C.
25
S
Madrid
February 20, 1942
Greene, Joseph Nathaniel
23
M-1
Tangier
March 22, 1942
Hanson, Henry, Jr.
25
8
Stockholm
February 17, 1942
Henry, David Howe, II
25
8
Beirut
March 20, 1941
Lueders, Duane Bernard
24
3
Asuncion
February 17, 1942
Lutkins, LaRue Hobbins
24
M
Chungking
February 17, 1942
Marcy, Oliver Murdook
24
M
Arica
February 20, 1942
McBride, Robert H.
25
5
Algiers
April 25, 1941
Pitts, Henry Luther, Jr.
23
M
Panama
December 11, 1941
Poole, Richard Armatrong
24
S
Barcelona
February 28, 1941
Rosenberg, William 8.
25
M
La Pas
February 17, 1942
Rossow, Robert, Jr.
25
M=1+
Panama
July 12, 1940
Siracuse, Ernest V.
25
M-1*
La Caiba
March 20, 1941
Stoessel, Walter John
24
8
Caraoas
February 17, 1942
Usher, Richard Ellison
24
a
Caylon
February 20, 1942
Wanamaker, Allison T., Jr. 25
3
Lisbon
March 20, 1941
Williams, William L. S,
24
a
Port Limon
February 20, 1942
Ainsworth, H. Gardner
27
M-1
San Salvador
September 3, 1940
Bogardus, George Frederick
26
N=1
Mombasa
March 20, 1941.
Burns, Findley, Jr.
26
8
Madrid
February 20, 1942
Catlett, Don Valentine
26
S
Ciudad Trujillo
March 20, 1941
Clough, Niles W.
27
M-1
Puerto Cortes
March 20, 1941
Daggett, crrest N.
26
M
Manaos
February 20, 1942
Dillon, Thomas P.
27
8
Vladivostok
March 20, 1941
Fraleigh, William N.
27
8
Port-au-Prince
March 2, 1939
Forman, Bougles No, Jr.
26
M
Buenaventura
February 20, 1942
Godley, George MoM.
26
8
Bern
February 28, 1941
Lee, Armistead Mason
27
M
Casablanca
February 17, 1942
Lobenstine, James Clark
26
M-1
Bogota
May 12, 1942
Lovell, Alfred Henry, Jr.
27
M-2=
Bogota
April 9, 1940
Martin, Edwin Webb
26
N-1
Leopoldville
March 20, 1941
McSweeney, John Morgan
27
8
Cairo
June 12, 1940
O'Sullivan, James L. (4-F) 27
S
Cayenne
February 17, 1942
Rockwell, Stuart Wesson
27
8
Algiers
February 28, 1941
Ross, Claude Gar don
26
N-1
Quito
July 12, 1940
Sanders, Terry Bentley Jr. 26
M
Nexico City
August 17, 1942
Sands, Jr., William Langdon27
8
Jidda
May 18, 1943
Schmitt, Herbert F. N.
26
N-2*
Bogota
March 20, 1941
Shullow, James Harold
27
S
Trinidad
March 20, 1941
Snyder, Byron B.
26
M-1*
Panama
October 31, 1941
Sparks, Joseph Stanley
27
M
Karachi
February 20, 1942
Speer, James Paul II
26
M-1+
New Delhi
March 20, 1941
Belton, William
29
M-2(1))
Winnipeg
July 6, 1938
Freeman, Fulton
28
M-20
Chungking
March 2, 1939
Strong, Robert Campbell
28
M-2
(1+)
Durban
March 2, 1939
Topping, John Langhorne
30
M
Montevideo
August 22, 1940
Tuthill, John Wills
33
M
Ottawa
July 12, 1940
Wagner, Joseph J.
33
M
Bombay
April 9, 1940
Walker, William Woodard
32
M-1*
Habana
March 30, 1941
Whitsker, Charles He
34
M-3+
St, George
November 16, 1939
# Indicates at least one pre-Pearl Harbor child.
LIST OF PURKION SERVICE OPPICINS 1/1k) DO NOT MUST THE POLLOWING
REQUIREMENTS POR DEFERENTS
(1) 30 and over with five yours' experience.
(2) Under 30 with five years' experience and nt
least one pre-Pourl Harbor child.
Marital
Date of
Name
Age
Status
Post
Appointment
Adair, Charles Wallace Jr.
so
S
Bombay
9/3/40
Anderson, Stewart 0.
31
M-20
Nontevideo
9/3/40
Beyer, Roland K.
30 M-10
Capatown
7/15/39
Birgo, Walter 7.
30
D
Reghted
3/20/41
Blankinship, Ayron Ernest
30
M-10
71juana
0/30/42
Brag iotti, D. Chadwiek
30
3
Bogota
3/80/42
Burns, John Howard
30
3
Pare
3/20/41
Byrna, Kenneth À.
32
14
Port Elizabeth
3/20/41
Calder, Donald 3.
32, S
London
4/9/44
Chalker, Robert Phelps
30
S
London
7/15/39
Cromie, Leonard J.
32
S
Istenbul
7/12/40
De Zengotita, Juan
30, M
La Pas
3/20/41
Estes, Phomas Stuart
31 M
Algiers
11/21/42
Freers, Edward Louts
32 M
Asuncion
3/20/41
Hale, Robert Fraser
34, H 1
Moxico City
7/27/31
Henderson, George Dailey
30
N-10
Asuncion
7/15/39
Holder, Oscar Curtis
32
3
Port Sold
3/20/41
Johnson, Richard A.
13 s
London
3/19/40
Knox, Marion Cordon
30 S
Stockholm
4/0/40
Lyon, Scott Calvin
31
S
Lisbon
9/3/40
MacDonald, Wilfred Vernon
so
S
Ankera
2/26/41
Mann, Frederick Justin
31 M
Braszaville
11/16/39
Neathery, Jack B.
37
M-1*
Rio de Janeiro
7/1/30
Oakley, R, Kenneth
30, M-10
Cartagena
7/16/30
Pappano, Albert E.
33 H-2=
Mexico City
1940
Schoellkopf, Malter do, Jr. 32
3
Beirut
8/22/40
Smith, Bromley Klabler
32
M
La Paz
0/3/40
Squires, Lealie Albion
33 M
Istenbul
2/17/42
Stuart, Wallece Myman
33 M
Sen Salvador
4/0/40
Sutton, P. Leater
30,
S
Boora
2/28/41
Wilkin, Fraser
35
S
Tungtor
7/12/40
Gleeck, Lewis E.
31 M
Stockholm
4/0/40
Gnade, Richard E.
31
3
Ankara
6/0/40
Wellborn, Alfred T.
30
S
Chungking
7/15/39
Vinson, J. Kittridge
33 S
Palermo
7/15/39
Calhoun, John A.
25
S
Tehran
3/20/41
# Indicates at least one pre-Pasrl Harbor child.
LIST OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS WHO DO NOT MEET THE FOLLOWING
REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFERMENT:
(1) 30 and over with five years experience;
(2) under 30 with five years experience and at
lesst one pre#Pearl Harbor child.
Name
Age Merital
Post
Date appointed
Status
Barnes, William
29
D
Department
7/2/37
Blue, William L
29
S
Palermo
3/2/41
Bond, Niles W
28
M-1
Madrid
3/2/39
Brandon, Howard
20
M
La Pas
8/17/42
Bream, Charles G
29
8
Godthaab
8/26/41
Carnahan, George
29
M
Barranquilla
12/5/42
Cory, Thomas J
29
M
La Guaira
11/16/39
Crawford, William A
29
M-2+
Habana
3/20/41
Devenport, Philip M
28
8
Harachi
7/6/38
Feld, Nicholas
28
8
Madras
3/2/39
Folsom, Robert S
28
M-1
Port-au-Prince
3/20/41
Fritzlan, A. David
29
8
Baara
7/6/38
Geier, Paul E
29
S
Tangier
3/20/41
Gilchrist, James M. Jr.
29
8
Managua
3/3/41
Green, Caspar D
29
M
Conception
2/29/41
Heupt, Alden M.
28
S
Calcutta
3/20/41
Henderson, Douglas
29
M
Cochabamba
2/20/42
Hillenbrand, Martin J
28,
M
Lourenco Marques
3/2/39
Husted, Clark E
29
S
Bern
4/9/40
Jones, J. Jefferson
28
S
Wellington
2/28/41
McKillop, David H
28
S
Stockhelm
2/28/41
Landon Donald W
29
M
Pernambuco
7/1/39
Le Breton, David Jr.
29
8
Cairo
3/20/41
Mattison, Gordon H.
29
M
Cairo
6/28/37
Nugent, Gulian L
28
M-20
Velparaiso
11/16/39
O'Neill, W. Paul, Jr
28
M-1
Tunis
3/20/41
Palmer, Joseph II
29,
M-1
Nairobi
1/18/40
Randell, Lee D
29
S
Bern
4/9/40
Rinden, Robert W
29
S
Johannesburg
4/6/38
Rutherford, M. Robert
28,
S
Chungking
7/16/39
Senderhoff, Lubert 0
29
M
St. John
2/28/41
Schwartz, Harry H
29
S
Leopoldville
9/3/40
Smith, Charles W
29, M-2*
Habana
3/20/41
Smith, Henry T
29
M
Habana
9/3/40
Triolo, James 8., Jr
29
M
Bogota
2/28/41
Watrous, Livingston D
28
M-1
San Jose
9/3/40
54
58
55
167
FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS WHO MEMT THE POLLOWING REQUIREMENTS.
(1) 30 or over with five years' experience.
(2) Under 30 with Five years' experience and
at least one pre-Pearl Herbor child.
30-37 years old inclusive:
Marital
Date of
Name
Age
Status
Post
Appointment
Adam, Hector C., Jr.
34
K-20
Hobens
9-20-34
Affeld, Williem Charles, Jr.37
M-1*
Quatemels
12-17-31
Anderson, Doniel V.
35
M
Velencia
12-17-31
Anderson, Ldward
36
S
Dublin
12-19-29
Anderson, W. Stratton
31
8
Line
7-2-37
Bailey, E. Tomlin
36
M
Department
10-1-35
Barbour, Walworth
35
8
Ceiro
12-17-31
Beam, Jacob D.
36
3
London
12-17-31
Benton, Russell F.
36
K-20
Ankore
10-1-35
Bernbaum, Maurice M.
34
M
Caracas
11-16-36
Berry, Lampton
35
S
New Delhi
3-16-34
Beverstock, Roswell C,
34
X-1*
Tegucigalps
10-1-35
Bishop, Max W. S.
35
a
Colombo
10-1-35
Blake, Relph J.
37
M
Department
11-12-29
Boswell, William 0.
30
S
Liebon
3-2-39
Braddock, Doniel y.
37
M-40
Bahis
3-26-29
Brogonier, Reginold, Jr.
37
M-2*
Montevideo
12-17-31
Brown, Arron 3,
30
M-20
Dublin
7-2-37
Brown, Stephen C.
33
3
London
11-16-36
Burrows, Charles R. (IV-F)
34
N
Buenos Aires
3-2-39
Busrer, William F.
36
K-40
Mexico City
10-1-35
Byington, Homer N., Jr.
35
M-10
Department
12-16-30
Carrican, John W.
35
N
Department
2-19-32
Clerk, Devid K.
35
If
Manague
7-2-34
Clerk, Horlan B.
31
S
Pretoria
7-2-37
Cole, Williom E., Jr.
35
W
St. John's, N.P.
7-2-37
Collins, Varnum L., Jr.
31
M-10
Penoma
3-2-39
Colquite, Adrian B.
35
M
Calcutta
10-3-33
Connelly, Bernard C.
35
K-1*
Lime
12-17-31
Cooke, Hedley V., Jr.
37
S
Jerusslon
11-28-28
Cooper, Charles A.
35
S
Department
12-17-31
Cootes, Merritt N.
35
S
Lisbon
12-17-31
Covan, Robert T.
37
S
Zurich
9-1-28
Cowles, Leon L.
37
N
Vigo
4-6-38
Crain, harl T.
36
M-15
Ciuded Junrez
2-1-28
Cunningham, Harry P., Jr.
31
S
Stockholm
4-6-38
Curtis, Edward 0., Jr.
34
N-30
Madrid
10-1-35
Devies, John P., Jr.
35
M
Chungking
12-17-31
Devis, Richard H.
31
S
Noscow
4-6-38
Dillingham, Sherburne
36
N-10
Caracas
4-15-30
Donovan, Andrew E.
35
S
Cluded Truj'llo
12-17-31
Dow, Edward A., Jr.
31
S
Cairo
1934
Drumright, Everett F.
37
S
Chungking
12-16-30
Edwards, J. Dixon
31
S
Kerachi
7-2-37
Eitreim, Erven M.
33
X-10
Ottows
1933
Blbrick, C. Burke
36
N-20
Tangier
1-22-31
Ellis, Charles P.
35
S
Sydney
10-1-35
Elting, Howard, Jr.
36
N-1*
Geneva
12-17-31
Emmerson, John K.
36
V-2-
Chungking
10-1-35
Emmone, Arthur B., III
33
K-10
Montevideo
3-2-39
English, Clifton P.
33
S
Department
3-16-34
Espy, James
36
S
Cairo
10-1-35
Faus, Keeler
33
S
Department
7-16-36
Fisher, Dorsey G.
37
&
London
4-18-29
Flourncy, William E., Jr.
37
M-10
Ponta Delgada
6-4-30
CIndicates at leant one pro-Pearl Herbor Child,
35
- 2 -
Marital
Date of
Name
Age
Status
Post
Appointment
Forsyth, Thomas V.
34
S
Barcelons
1-12-32
Fuess, John 0.
31
M-1
Auckland
3-2-39
Galbraith, Willard
37
M
San Sebestien
12-19-29
Gatewood, Richard D.
33
S
Colombo
10-1-35
Gamlin, Deniel, Jr.
37
M
Beghded
12-16-30
Geerken, Forrest K.
35
M-30
Mexico City
12-16-37
Goetzmann, Jule L.
31
M
Bilbao
7-21-37
Goodyear, John
31
M-30
Daker
7-6-38
Goshie, John L.
36
N-2*
Algiers
1933
Grinnell, Robert
30
S
Brisbane
7-6-38
Gullion, Edmund A.
31
S
Helsinki
7-2-37
Hert, Boies C., Jr.
30
S
Algiers
3-2-39
Hart, Parker T.
33
8
Cairo
7-6-38
Havron, J. Brook
33
M
Bucaramange
11-8-34
Hawkins, Richard H., Jr.
31
M-2*
Sydney
3-2-39
Hawley, Charles F.
33
M-1*
Camaguey
10-1-34
Hescook, Roger L.
37
M-2*
Department
4-6-38
Hickok, Thomas A.
37
8
Acors
11-12-29
Higge, L. Randolph
34
M
Stockholm
11-25-31
Hoover, John P.
33
M
Caracas
1934
Horsey, Outerbridge
33
S
Madrid
4-6-38
Hulick, Charles E., Jr.
31
N
Cairo
11-19-38
Hutchinson, Charles A.
36
M-1*
Adelside
11-12-29
Jandrey, Fred W.
35
M
Melbourne
12-17-31
Jenkins, Douglas, Jr.
34
M-1*
Monague
12-17-31
Jernegan, John D.
32
3
Tehren
11-16-36
Johansen, Beppo R.
35
M-1*
Department
10-1-35
Johnson, Leslie W.
35
M
Bahia Blance
11-16-36
Johnson, U. Alexia
35
M
Rio de Jeneiro
10-1-35
Jones, George L.
37
M-1*
Department
1930
Jones, J. Wesley
36
M-2*
Department
12-1930
Kidder, Rendolph A.
30
M-2*
Canberre
4-6-38
Knox, Charles F., Jr.
37
8
Department
1930
Kohler, Foy D.
36
M
London
12-17-31
Kreig, Williom L.
30
M
Cersess
4-6-38
Lerue, G. Wallace (IV-P)
33
S
Department
6-28-37
Leukhuff, Perry
37
S
Stockholm
7-2-37
Leverich, Henry P.
36
M-2*
Department
12-17-31
Lightner, E. Allan, Jr.
36
8
London
12-17-31
Ludden, Raymond P.
34
M.
Kunming
12-17-31
MscArthur, Dougles, II
34
M
Department
10-1-35
MacDonald, John J.
36
S
Calcutts
4-15-30
Meffitt, Edward P.
37
M-1*
Buenos Aires
12-17-31
Methews, Elbert G.
33
M
Kabul
9-14-35
McClintock, Robert M.
34
M-1*
Stockholm
12-17-31
McConsughy, Walter P.
35
M
La Paz
12-16-30
Norden, Carl
36
8
Algiers
7-6-38
Offie, Cermel
34
S
Algiers
11-16-36
Olda, Herbert V.
30
N-3*
Buenos Aires
7-2-37
Ordway, John
34
S
London
10-19-35
Orebaugh, Walter W.
34
M-1*
Interned by
12-17-31
Germans
O'Shaughnessy, Elim
36
S
Rio de Jeneiro
7-6-37
McKelvey, Delono
35
M
Sydney
3-2-39
Melbourne, Roy M.
30
8
Department
7-2-37
Melby, John F.
30
M-2*
Moscow
7-2-37
Millet, Charles S.
35
M-30
Chungking
10-1-35
More, James B.
36
M
Zurich
10-1-35
Moreland, William D., Jr.
36
M-2"
Beghded
4-15-30
*At lesst one pre-Pesrl Herbor child.
68
Marital
Date of
Name
Age
Status
Post
Appointment
Morris, Browster H.
35
S
Stockholm
11-16-36
Murray, Alton T.
37
8
London
1934
Paddook, Paul B.
36
8
Casablence
8-13-37
Persons, James G.
36
N-2*
Department
12-2-36
Penfield, James K.
35
3
Chungking
4-15-30
Peterson, Avery F.
37
M-30
London
1930
Ray, Devid T.
34
8
Manague
7-6-38
Reed, Harry C.
36
N-2*
Ciuded Trujillo
2-1-30
Reinhardt, G. Frederick
32
8
Italy
6-28-37
Renchard, George N.
36
M-1
Algiers
9-23-30
Rewinkel, Milton C.
30
3
Lisbon
7-2-37
Rice, Edward E.
35
M
Chungking
9-14-35
Richerds, Arthur L.
36
M
Pretoris
7-16-30
Rose, Hellock L.
36
M-1*
Lisbon
4-15-32
Selter, Fred K,
37
8
London
8-18-30
Setterthweite, Livingaton
35
M-2*
London
2-18-32
Schuler, Frank, Jr.
35
N-1+
Noumes
1-1-31
Service, John 8.
34
M-2*
Chungking
10-1-35
Shillook, John C., Jr.
37
M-1*
Line
11-12-29
Smith, Merlin E.
36
M
Monterrey
8-16-30
Smith, Walter
34
S
Guayaquil
7-2-37
Snow, Williem P.
36
K-3*
Lime
10-1-35
Spelding, Frencis
37
11-4*
Reykjavik
12-17-31
Sprouse, Philip D.
37
8
Chungking
9-12-35
Stone, John F.
34
M
London
12-17-31
Taft, Orray, Jr.
35
N-2*
Hobana
2-4-32
Taylor, Robert
34
M-1*
Department
1-7-32
Theyer, Charles W.
34
8
London
7-2-37
Thompson, Tyler
36
If
Oran
8-19-31
Thurston, Rey L.
31
X
Bombay
7-2-37
Timberlake, Clare E.
36
8
Department
1-8-31
Trinble, William C.
36
M-2*
Department
12-17-31
Tyler, S. Roger, Jr.
35
M-2*
Sen Jose
1-31-36
Wallner, Woodruff
35
s
Department
10-1-35
Ward, Robert 8.
37
S
Chungking
3-26-29
Warner, Gerald
36
M
Buenos Aires
12-31-30
Well, T. Eliot
37
8
Wellington
10-1-35
Wells, Henry B.
34
M-30
Habane
1-30-32
West, George L., Jr.
33
S
Stockholm
4-19-38
White, Byron (IV-F)
37
M
Colon
1932
White, Ivan B.
36
M-2
Rio de Jeneiro
10-2-35
Williems, Philip P.
31
M-1*
Buenos Aires
11-16-36
Wilson, Even E.
34
M-30
Department
7-2-37
Wilson, Robert E.
32
M
La Paz
11-16-36
Whitman, Williem, II
30
s
Ankers
1935
Woodward, Robert F.
34
M
Le Paz
3-21-32
Wright, Jemes E.
36
M
Department
1-29-30
Yearns, Kenneth J.
37
M
Calcutts
1-7-31
Yunif, William E.
37
N
Chungking
10-16-35
Flüharty, Vernon L.
36
M-1*
Medellin
6-6-38
28 and 29 years old with at least one pre-Pearl Harbor child.
Belton, William
29
M-2*
Winnipeg
7-6-38
Freeman, Fulton
28
M-1*
Chungking
3-2-39
Strong, Robert 0.
28
M-2*
Durban
3-3-39
26 and 27 years old with at least one pre-Pearl Herbor child.
Horner, John E.
27
N-2*
Ottowa
4-6-38
25 years old and under with at least one pre-Pearl Harbor child.
None
st
"At least one pre-Pearl Harbor child.
Youngn dervice
April 20, 1944
Dear Mr. Secretary:
Replying to your memorandum of
April 11, 1944, I have reexamined the
President's memorandum concerning the
Foreign Service personnel.
Your understanding is correct,
viz:
(1) All Foreign Service offi-
cers who have passed their thirtieth birth-
day are to be deferred if they have had
five years actual experience in the Foreign
Service.
(2) No Foreign Service Officer
under thirty shall be deferred unless, in
addition to five years actual experience
in the Foreign Service, he is also a pre-
Pearl Harbor father.
I would appreciate it if you
would send me for my files a list of those
Foreign Service Officers who, under these
tests, are to be deferred and those who are
not to be deferred.
Thanking you for your courtesy,
Very sincerely,
of
Ser
Mannowez
Consiveion
Washington, Da 0,
SAMUEL I. ROSENMAN
Special Counsel to the
President
Honorable 0. Howland Shaw
Assistant Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.
April 20, 1944
Dear Mr. Puryear:
I am enclosing a copy
of a letter I have today sent to
G. Howland Shaw, Assistant Secretary
of State, with respect to Foreign
Service Officers. It is self-
explanatory.
Very sincerely,
SAMUEL I. ROSENMAN
Special Counsel to the
President
Honorable Edgar Puryear
Review Committee on Deferment
of Government Employees
War Manpower Commission
Washington, D. C.
State Department - regular
PREVICTORY
Fale with
BUY
MAR
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
19th
WASHINGTON M.D.C.
April 28, 1944
Review Committee on Deferment
PSF
of Government Employees
State
My dear Judge Rosenman:
With further reference to the cases presented to you
on appeal from action by this Committee by the Depart-
ment of State, I wish to submit a statement indicating
our proposed recommendations on reconsideration of such
cases, for your information and comment.
As you will note, these are exclusive of Foreign Officer
cases and represent the administrative and executive
classifications of the Department.
With every good wish and kindest regards, I an
Joy Sincerely yours,
Edgar F). Puryear
Chairman
Honorable Samuel I. Rosensan
Special Counsel to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
STATE DEPARTMENT
57 Cases for Reconsideration: 3-31-44
WITH DEPT.
TITLE
NAME
AGE
SALARY
SINCE
TO KEY LISTS:
Advisor on Med. Area
Dallas Dort
36
$8000
8-17-43
Advisor on Supplies
J. A. Stilwell
37
8000
12-3-43
Spec. Asst. to Under Sec.
G. H. Raynor
37
8000
12-20-43
Exec. Asst. to Asst. Sec.
Donald Hiss
37
8000
2-1-38
Acting Chief
0. E. Milliken
36
6500
2-25-43
Director-Public Inform.
J. E. Dickey
36
8250
3-19-34
Spec. Asst. to Director
W. C. Irving
35
5600
2-1-42
Exec. Asst. to Pat. Chm.
W. B. Jones
36
7500
12-11-45
Petroleum Expert
L. A. Webb
37
6500
11-23-43
Executive Secretary
J. F. Ganga
33
6500
12-15-41
Cases Considered Under Part VI
Action
Yes (Six Months)
Sr. Divisional Asst.
A. G. Ronhoude
37
$4600
9-28-42
Prin. Divisional Asst.
P. deF. Warner
37
6600
9-1-43
Prin. Divisional Asst.
C. I. Bovans
35
3800
5-16-29
Prin. Divisional Asst.
C. D. Corse
36
5600
8-1-35
Sr. Divisional Asst.
Jos. Chappell
37
4600
7-1-41
Sr. Divisional Asst.
H. H. Pierson
37
4600
2-3-30
Assoc. Divisional Asst.
R. C. Larkin
37
3200
1-19-42
Admin. Officer Asst.
A. W. Taylor
35
4600
11-28-27
Head Pur. & Ind. Unit
N. B. Guyol
36
4600
3-16-42
Exec. Asst.
P. L. White
37
4600
9-1-39
Acting Asst. Chief
J. D. Neal
35
4600
9-30
Executive Officer
J. E. Peurifoy
36
5600
10-1-38
Ninety Days:
Prin. Divisional Asst.
W. F. Barber
34
$5600
12-1-38
Divisional Asst.
J. 0. Bell
31
5600
1-19-31
Prin. Divisional Asst.
J. F. Green
33
5600
6-30-42
Divisional Asst.
R. C. Hibbard
34
3800
11-9-43
Asst. Chief of Budget
H. G. Kissick
33
3800
5-1-31
Actg. Chief of Section
W. G. Wolcavich
34
2700
4-8-31
Special Agent
M. E. Briggs
34
3200
4-1-38
STATE DEPARTMENT
57 Cases for Reconsideration
3-31-44
WITH DEPT
TITLE
NAME
AGE
SALARY
SINCE
NOT APPROVED:
Advisor on U.N.R.R.A.
E. G. Miller, Jr.
32
$8000
1941
Asst. Advisor on Fr. Empire D. S. Gilpartick
34
6500
3-2-43
Asst. Chief
S. S. Jones
34
6500
7-15-42
Chief-Int. Labor Organiz.
R. S. Simpson
37
4600
5-43
Asst.Adv.Fin. & Prop. Cont. J. J. Reinstein
32
6500
2-24-36
Head of Minerals Unit
P. W. Icke
34
4600
2-24-42
Divisional Asst.
W. H. McCahon
36
3800
10-1-43
Divisional Asst.
W. Hollis
35
3800
4-1-42
Divisional Asst.
Edw. W. Kelly
36
3800
6-21-43
Special Agent
J. R. Geele
36
2900
8-1-41
Special Agent
Goo. Phelps
35
2600
7-17-43
Exec. Asst. to Chief
E. L. Reeves
35
3200
6-10-31
Chief Photo. Section
R. S. Duter
33
2900
10-19-42
Sr. Admin. Asst.
C. F. Hawkins
31
2900
3-30
Chief Code Unit (Night)
E. W. Browne
31
2600
11-12-34
Asst. Chief Code Unit
N. P. Lawler
33
4200
9-26-34
Chief Recruit. & Placement
J. T. Forbes
32
4600
6-2-43
Sr. Classification Invest.
F. B. Haskell, Jr.
28
3200
4-8-37
Divisional Asst.
C. M. Maroy
30
3800
5-25-42
Asst. Chief of Division
J. W. Swihart
27
4600
2-29-42
Asst. Adv.- Political Def.
W. P. Allen
28
4600
7-15-43
Actg. Chief Classification
R. J. Ryan (60 days 29
3200
4-8-37
4-10-44)
Divisional Asst.
Thomas C. Mann
31
5600
8-42
Divisional Asst.
F. Linville
34
4600
7-15-41
Divisional Asst.
P. N. Herrick
33
3800
4-1-42
Divisional Asst.
John Campbell
32
4600
7-17-42
Spec. in Internat'l Petro. J. A. Loftus
32
5600
11-2-43
Spec. in Internat'l Commerce W. T. Phillips
34
4600
9-8-43
st are
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
4/10/44
WASHINGTON
4:10 st PM the Judge
MEMORANDUM FOR JUDGE ROSENMAN
is
4/11/74
Subject: Deferment of Robert J. Ryan
I should greatly appreciate a favorable decision on
the deferment of Robert J. Ryan for a period of six months
only from April 1, 1944. The Department definitely does not
contemplate any extension of this deferment beyond the period
stated.
Mr. Ryan is Chief of the Classification Section in the
Department's Personnel Division. He is directing a compre-
hensive job classification survey of the entire Department
involving about 3500 positions. This work is vital to the
reorganization of the Department with which you are familiar
and the importance of which I am sure you recognize.
Mr. Ryan 1s the only person available who has the
necessary combination of job classification and Department
experience plus administrative ability which 1s required to
direct this survey effectively. He now has three assistants
but all three are subject to induction in the near future.
It is strongly felt that the loss of Mr. Ryan at this
time, in addition to the loss of his three assistants, would
set back the reorganization by six months. This set-back
would seriously interfere with the Department's whole program
during a period when, as you know, the Department can 111 afford
any such risk.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Toi
WASHINGTON
Mr. Ryan's name appears on
Department of State "Statistics On
Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Submitted To
Review Committee, War Manpower Com-
mission On March 16, 1944", as being
29 years old; father of one Pre-Pearl
Harbor child; in 8. S. Class II-A;
having held present position since
6/1/43; and has been an employee of
the State Department since 4/8/37.
He 18 not a Foreign Service offi-
cer.
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE
undated.
Washington
received 4/10/44
As
4:10P,M.
MEMORANDUM FOR JUDGE ROSENMAN
Subject: Deferment of Robert J. Ryan
I should greatly appreciate a favorable decision on the
deferment of Robert J. Ryan for a period of six months only
from April 1, 1944. The Department definitely does not con-
template any extension of this deferment beyond the period stated.
Mr. Ryan 1s Chief of the Classification Section in the
Department's Personnel Division. He 18 directing a comprehensive
job classification survey of the entire Department involving about
3500 positions. This work in vital to the reorganization of the
Department with which you are familiar and the importance of
which I as sure you recognize.
Mr. Ryan 1s the only person available who has the necessary
combination of Job classification and Department experience plus
administrative ability which 1e required to direct this survey
effectively. He now has three assistante but all three are subject
to induction in the near future.
It 18 strongly felt that the loss of Mr. Ryan at this time,
in addition to the loss of his three assistants, would set back
the reorgenization by six months. This set-back would seriously
interfere with the Department's whole program during a period when,
as you know, the Department can 111 afford any such risk.
(signed) CORDULL HULL
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
STATISTICS 0% PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS
SUBMITTED TO
REVIEW COMMITTEE, WAR HALPOWER COMMISSION
OK MARCH 16, 194h
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
A-A
Hiss, Donald
Exec. Asst. to Asst. Sec'v P-8
$8000
12/15/06(38)
2/1/38
3/43
1
III-A
of State, Mr. Acheson
ANCC
Gange, John F.
Executive Secretary
-7
6500
5/30/10(34)
12/15/41
1/16/44
1
II-A
U. S. Section
AD
Bell, John 0.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
10/4/22/36/
1/19/31
5/16/43
1
III-B
Roper, George S.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
4/13/08 (36) 10/1/42
5/16/43
3
III-A
Warner, Percy del.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
10/5/06 9/1/43
9/1/43
2
II-A
All
Duter, Ralph S.
Chief of Photo. Sec.
CAF-8
2900
8/15/10 (34) 10/19/42
12/16/43
2
II-A
Hawkins, Charles F.
Administrative Assistant
CAF-8
2900
10/26/12(32/
10/7/35
9/8/42
?
II-A
Holsinger, Otto R.
Asst. Superintendent of
CAF-5
2000
10/12/12/12/
5/10/30
12/16/42
1
III-A
Diplonatic Pouch Service
BY
Kissick, Harold G.
Asst. Chief, Hudget Br.
P-4
3800
12/2/10(34)
5/1/31
2/1/44
3
III-D
Walcavich, Walter G.
Acting Chief of Section
CAF-7
2000
4/19/09
(35)
11/8/31
9/16/112
1
III_A
CD
Loftun, John 4.
Specialist in Interna-
P-6
5600
8/2/11
(83)
11/2/43
1/15/44
1
II-H
tional Petroleum
Phillips, William T.
Divisional Assistant
1'-5
4600
7/17/09
(351
010/47
0/8/43
?
I-A
Webb, Leslie A.
Petroleum Expert
P-7
65m
10/28/06(38)
11/23/45
11/20/43
2
I1-B
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
CSA
Briggs, Miles &,
Special Agent
$3200
7/10/09 (35)
4/1/38
1/15/41
1
II-8
Geele, James R.
Special Agent
2900
11/5/07 (37)
8/1/41
5/1/42
1
I-A
Phelps, George
Special Agent
2600
5/10/09(35)
7/17/43.
7/17/43
3
IL-A
DCR
Browne, Elwood H,
Chief of Code and
CAF-7
2600
7/2/12 (32)
11/12/34
1/1/44
1
III_A
Cinher Unit
Lawler, Norton P.
Asst. Chief of Code
CAF-5
2200
6/26/10
(34)
9/26/34
1/1/43
1
IV-F
and Cipher Unit
DP
Forbes, John T.
Chief, Recruitment and
CAF-12
4600
9/29/11 (33)
6/2/43
6/2/43
1
III-A
Placement Section
Haskell, Fred B.
Sr. Class. Investigator
CAF-9
3200
12/26/15(29)
9/18/43
9/18/43
1
HA
Irving, Wilbur C.
Acting Chief
Pmh
5600
12/28/08(36)
2/22/43
1/15/44
2
I-A
Ryan, Robert J.
Acting Chief, Class.Sec.
CAF_9
3200
7/11/14 (30)
4/8/37
6/1/23
1
II-A
ZH
Gilpatric, Donald S.
Asst. Adviser on French
P-7
6500
12/1/09/35/
8/2/43
12/1/43
1
III-A
Empire
YA
Taylor, Ancel N.
Administrative Officer
CAF-12
4600
6/17/08(36)
11/28/27
11/1/43
4
IV_P
20
Neal, Jack D.
Acting Assistant Chief
P-5
4600
6/28/08 (36) 8/21/30
11/1/47
1
II-A
:
Guyol, Nathaniel B.
Head of Power and
P-5
4600
10/11/08 (36) 3/18/42
1/1/44
2
III-B
Industry Unit
Icke, Paul W.
Head of Minerals Unit
P-5
4600
1/14/10 (34) 2/24/42
9/16/42
1
III-A
3
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
ISO
Green, James F.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
$5600
11/17/10/34) 6/20/42
6/20/42
1
I-A
14
Dort, Dallas
Adviser on Nediterranean
P-R
8000
2/17/08 (36) 8/17/43
12/1/43
3
II-A
Area
Miller, Edward G,
Adviser on UNRRA
P-R
5000
9/27/11 (33) 12/1/43
12/1/43
1
II-A
Reinstein, Jacques J.
Asst. Adviser on Financial
P-7
6500
9/13/11 (5)/2/24/36
12/1/43
1
III_B
and Property Controls
Stillwell, James A.
Adviser on Supplies
P-8
8000
7/24/06 (38) 12/3/43
12/3/43
?
II-A
LRD
Mulliken, Otis &,
Acting Chief
P-7
6500
3/20/07 (31) 2/25/43
1/15/44
1
III-A
Simpson, Robert S,
Chief of International
P-5
4600
11/9/06 (38) 3/8/43
3/44
1
I-A
Labor Organizations Sec.
UPI
Dickey, John S,
Director
F-K
8250
11/4/07(3) 7/41/*
1/15/44
3
III.A
Jones, Samuel S.
Assistant Chief
P-7
6500
11/11/09(35) 7/15/42
2/21/44
1
II-A
Peurifoy, John 3,
Executive Officer
P-6
5600
8/9/07 (31) 10/1/38
2/28/44
1
III-A
DD
Reevee, Edwy L.
Executive Asst. to Chief
CAF_9
32m
12/12/08 (36) 6/10/31
8/15/42
1
ILA
XP
Bevans, Charles I.
Divisional Assistant
P-h
3800
9/21/08 (36 5/16/29
11/1/41
]
II-B
SA/M
White, Paul L.
Executive Assistant
P-5
4600
4/11/06 (38) 9/1/39
3/1/42
1
I-A
SEA
Pierson, Harry H.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
7/27/06 (38) 2/3/30
11/1/21
1
IL-A
. Mr. Dickey served in the Department for three years prior to 1941.
4
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
SA
Linville, Francis À,
Divisional Assistant
P-5
$4600
12/2/09(35) 7/15/41
2/16/43
2
III-D
SWP
Herrick, Parmely W.
Divisional Assistant
P-4
3800
11/9/10 (34) 4/1/42
4/1/42
2
IILA
Hibbard, Richard E.
Divisional Assistant
P_4
3800
1/12/10 (34) 11/9/43
11/9/43
1
I-A.
McCahon, William H.
Divisional Assistant
Palt
3800
9/25/07 (37)10/1/43
10/1/43
1
ILAA_
Marcy, Carl M,
Divisional Assistant
P-4
3800
6/11/13 (31) 5/25/42
5/25/42
1
I-A..
TA
Corse, Carl D.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
11/20/07/22/8/1/35
9/1/42
3
II-B.
Gay, Merrill C.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
7/8/07 (31)3/15/43
3/15/43
2
I-A
Hollie, Walter
Divisional Assistant
P-):
3800
7/30/08 (36/4/1/42
4/1/42
1
11-A
Kelly, Edward W.
Divisional Assistant
Palt
3800
3/28/08 (36) 6/21/43
6/21/43
1
III-A
73
Campbell, John C.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
10/8/11 (33) 7/17/42
3/1/44
1
I-A
Ronhovde, Andreas G.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
9/18/06 138/9/28/42
10/15/43
2
IILA
U
Raynor, G. Haydon
Special Assistant to
CAF-15
8000
8/28/06 (38) 12/20/43
12/20/43
2
11-B
Under Secretary
VD
Chappell, Joseph J.
Divisional Assistant
P-5
4600
3/5/07 (32/7/1/41
6/1/42
2
I-A
Larkin, Richard C.
Divisional Assistant
P-3
3200
6/13/06 (38/1/19/42
2/7/43
3
III-A.
5
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
Name
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class.
WT
Mann, Thomas C.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
$5600
11/11/12(32/12/2/43
12/2/43
1
III-A
Swihart, James V,
Assistant Chief
P-5
4600
14/13/16/28) 2/9/42
1/1/44
1
III_A
1.1
Jones, William B.
Executive Assistant to
P-7
7500
3/20/07 (37) 12/11/43
12/11/43
1
III-A
American Chairman of
Joint Patents Committee
-
Allen, Ward P.
Assistant Adviser to
4600
1/18/15 (29) 7/15/43
7/15/43
1
III_A
U.S. Member, Committee
for Political Defense
4600
--
Yost, Charles W,
Executive Secretary of
8000
11/6/07 (37) 8/35
1/15/44
1
II-B
Policy Committee
(proposed)
ARA
Barber, Willard F.
Divisional Assistant
P-6
5600
3/21/09 (35) 12/1/38
11/1/43
1
ILA
Urgent cases submitted independently to the Committee
CD
Cale, Edward G.
Assistant Chief
P-6
5600
11/30/06 (38) 7/10/41
1/15/44
2
III-A
UP
Morgan, James W.
Sr. Class. Investigator
CAF_O
3200
10/10/14 (30) 9/8/43
9/8/43
1
I-A
SH
Barnes, Courtlandt D.
Divisional Assistant
Pali
3800
12/26/07 (371 2/2/42
12/1/43
2
I-A
FBO
King, Leland W.
Acting Chief
P-6
5600
12/17/07 (31) 12/23/40
8/16/41
2
I-A
SR
Nolan, Charles P.
Assistant to Adviser on
P-6
5600
11/22/09 (35) 11/3/41
12/16/43
1
I-A
Combined Shipping
Adjustment Board
6
Date of
Date of
entry to
entry to
present
Pre-P.H.
S.S.
Symbol
liame
Title
Grade
Salary
Birth Date
Dept.
position
Children
Class,
SWP
Clattenburg, Albert R.
Assistant Chief
P-7
$6500
9/16/06 (38) 3/26/29
10/12/39
2
II.B
U
Conn, George T.
Administrative Assistant
CAFE9
3200
2/7/13 (31) 11/23/43
11/23/43
1
I-A
VT
King, Nat B.
Divisional Assistant
P.6
5600
11/9/07 (37) 1942
3/1/44
1
III-A
Honsma, George N,
Divisional Assistant
P-):
3800
12/3/09 (30) 10/1/41
9/16/42
2
I-A
PSF
state
5/2/44
Message from Mr. Puryear:
The Review Committee not today
with Kr. Frank of the State Depart-
ment. They feel that they have reached
an agreement with the State Department
on the regular personnel.
Mr. Puryear would like the
files returned, so they can be marked.
If Puryear finds that State
disagrees on any of them, he will
return the files to you.
PSF
State
May 3, 1944
Dear Mr. Shaw:
I am enclosing a copy of
a letter to Edgar Puryear, which
is self-explanatory.
Very sincerely,
SAMUEL I. ROSENMAN
Special Counsel to the
President
Honorable G. Howland Shaw
Assistant Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.
PSF
State
May 3, 1944
Dear Mr. Puryear:
I understand that you and
the State Department have tentative-
ly reached an agreement on the de-
ferment cases in the Department
(other than the Foreign Service
personnel).
I am accordingly returning
your thirty-six files to you.
I understand that if some
question is raised about the agree-
ment, you will return the files to
me.
Very sincerely,
SAMUEL I. ROSENMAN
Special Counsel to the
President
Hon. Edger Puryear
Review Committee on the Deferment
of Government Employees
War Manpower Commission
Washington, D. C.
CC - Mr. Shaw