Messersmith, G.S.
Date
2011-06-15
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Abstract
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Relates some of the inconveniences as well as pleasures of life in the Foreign Service; Foreign Service offers to a young man or woman opportunities for usefulness to one's country and people and the chance to use all the initiative one may have, but too little has been said about the inconveniences; to a young couple bringing up a family, the problems would be almost insurmountable; salaries, though somewhat better in recent years, have never been large; living conditions, especially in some of the out-of-the way places may be primitive; housing conditions have improved greatly since the Foreign Service buildings program has expanded to provide homes for Foreign Service officers, but there are still dangers from disease, climatic conditions, and exposures to all sorts of risks; Messersmith recalls several occasions when his own life was threatened; police of a host country usually try to provide protection for diplomatic and consular officers, but having a policeman constantly at one's heels is an inconvenience too.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.