Word: careermen
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...representational function, the State Department by general consensus rates high. Its ambassadors are able. Three-fourths of them are careermen, and of the political appointees, none are like the blundering, bottom-pinching misfits who have sometimes embarrassed the U.S. in the past. With the revolution of transportation and communication, ambassadors enjoy almost instant backup from Washington, which sometimes cuts into their freedom of action but also relieves them of weighty decision-making beyond their official competence. More often than an ambassador may like, someone senior to him (including the Secretary) may jet practically into his embassy's backyard...
...Sorensen, the President's longtime administrative assistant and specialist in domestic politics and policies: up a lot as a dedicated doubter who will now be turning his doubts on State Department and Pentagon careermen...
...last Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, annually spent more than $100,000 above his $6,000 allowance. In four years in Rome, Paper King James D. Zellerbach spent $200,000 of his personal fortune for government party-giving. Even in lesser posts, Foreign Service careermen find it hard to get by. One minister-counselor in Paris asked to be relieved of duty because he couldn't stand the expense, and a veteran now being reassigned from Europe to South America says frankly: "I truly hope that social life at my new post is rather quiet...
...James Gavin, who has no personal fortune. But Rooney promised no relief for U.S. junior diplomats, who pick up a large share of the entertainment tabs. In India. 64 U.S. Information Service officers share $4,700 a year for line-of-duty hospitality. In New York, where junior-grade careermen do not get even the quarters allowance that is customary overseas, 23 diplomatic officers at the U.N. delegation must entertain representatives of 98 countries...
...Italy for the last four years. Foreign Service careermen find it hard enough to get by as Ambassadors to Austria (a $4,000 annual allowance) or Ireland ($2,300), absolutely impossible to take on such major posts as London ($8,500) or Paris ($5,000), where the allowance does not even pay for the traditional Fourth of July party, when as many as 5,000 Americans in town drop by. (The British ambassador in Washington gets an estimated $100,000 for expenses.) Result: the U.S. jobs go regularly to wealthy campaign contributors-some good, some poor -who can afford...