Evening star., 1941-01-08
State Department
Asks Salaries for
Non-Existent Posts
Conquests by Germany
Itoly and Russia Are
Not Recognized by U. S.

Congress today was asked in the
1912 budget to appropriate Sl7,500
as the salary of an American Am
bassador to Germany and $4,000
for a Minister to Albania. These
items were listed in the summary of
estimates of desired appropriations
for the State Department, which
gets along with less money than
most governmental agencies. The
total State Department request for
1912 is SIG. .768 ,928, which is s261, ,152
less than the 1941 appropriation of
The chief State Department cut
comes in the appropriation for the
foreign service, which is limited
by the gradual spread of war. The
foreign service obtained an appro-
priation of S14,784. 500 for the cur
rent year. 1t asks S14,228, 900 for
1912.
The expenditures of the Office
of the Secretary of State are de-
creased by s32 ,780, but the expected
outlay for international obligations
on the part Of the State Depart
ment-participation in international
commissions and so forth-is in
creased from $1,973,000 to 81 300 228.
1t would be incorrect to draw
from the request for salary for
an Ambassador to Germany the
inference that German American
relations are about to improve.
This country has not been rep
resented by an Ambassador in Ber-
lin since 1898, but without actual
seVerence of diplomatic relations
between the two countries both
governments will make a formal
gesture toward keeping open the
channels of normal diplomatic inter-
course.
Doesn't Recognize Coup.
The request for funds for Min
lister to Albania serves as new notice
to the world that the United States
does not recognize the italian coup
of 1889 which made that Balkan
country a part of what MuSSollnl
considers the italian empire. In the
same maner the American Govern
ment, in the budget, Announces once
more that it considers as still ex-
istent number of countries which
Germany and Russia have obllt-
erated-among them Czecho-Slo-
vakia.
The budget asks these appropria-
tions of salaries for Ambassadors
and Ministers TO these defunct
countries:
An Ambassador 10 Poland, which
has been divided between Germany
and Russia, 1880; an Ambassador
to Belgium, whose territory and
capital are invested by the Ger
mans and where We are not rep
resented in fact at all (the AM
baSSador TO Bulglum serves also as
Minister to Luxembourg. which Is
wholly in German hands,.
Other Countries Occupied.
Ministers to the Netherlands,
whose territory is occupied by the
German army but whose govern
ment is in exile, functioning under
Queen Wilhelmina and a Cabinet
in London; to Albania, to Czecho-
Slovakia, to Denmark, where King
Christian functions as the nominal
head of a government under the
control of the German Army of
Occupation: to Norway. whose gov
ernment like the Dutch is in exile
in London; to Lithuania and Es-
tonia, which have been incorpo-
rated into the Union of Soviet So
cialist Republics.
However, the State Department
makes no mention of a Minister to
Austria
The chief source of the appropria-
tions cut in the foreign service
comes in the reduction for the item
entitled emergencies arising in the
diplomatic and consular service "
The appropriation for the current
year is s1,225,OOO. The request for
the coming year is S500,000.
International disorder or not, the
State Department plans to spend
more than ever in the coming year
on salaries and compensations for
dragomans, kavasses, guards, por-
ters, interpreters, prison keepers,
archive collators and Chinese
writer's
These functionaries fall into the
classification miscellaneous salaries
and allowances, foreign service" 4"
The current appropriation for this
item is s697,00O The request for
next wear is S730 0OO-