The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

terested. The boys at the front are not doing any name-callng now. They are not even doing much talking. But if, when they come home, they find peace they have won, run into the ground then they may hurI some ugly, four letter Rooseveltian words at those responsible.
 The boys who are doing the dy- ing are glad of 1t, aS long as the kids they left behind won't have to do 1t all over again. But they didn't give anyone Q blank check to follow old-fashioned diplomacy which will sign away the lives Of their sons 20 years from now. NEW METHODS
 They have seen what . stream lined War Department can do with new, lightning methods which have revolutioniEed warfare. They have seen the navy perform mir. acles with armor plate, radar, and listening devices. They know that American genius and American ef- ficinecy are equal to anything. They expecs that genius and that efficiency to be applied to winning the peace just as effectively as they have applied 1t to winning the war.
 Some of the Presidents best
 friends, including many Inside
 his Cabinet and his administra-
 ton, feel that putting American foreign policy, and the State De-
 partment which administers 1t,
 on the same streamllned basis
 as the War Department, Is the
 most important and neglected
 task facing him.
 When Thomas Jefferson, the first Secretary of State, moved into his headquarters in Philadel- phia, he had a staff of four clerks, one French interpreter, three Ministers and sixteen Consuls. His letters to Ministers were labori- ously copied in the American let- ter book, required four to six weeks to reach their destination by Clipper snip, and sometimes were written in invisible ink with Q notation on the outside: ITO be sunk in case of danger from the enemy"
 The State Department has made great progress since then. Today a battery of telegraph operators working all night shifts, send and receive messages from every cor- ner of the world. They are de- coded, mimeographed, and placed on the lesks of the Secretary of State and his assistants within an hour after their arrival.
 COVERING THE WORLD
 On the top floors of the State Department are voluminous files covering every section of the world, plus diplomatic notes and consular reports dating back to the Founding Fathers.
 On paper also the State Depart ment's machinery is perfect. It is divided into geographical di- visions, the European division, the Far Eastern division, the Arneri- can Republics division. Under each, a man is detailed to study a certain country, its trade, politics, its leaders and its problems. Many of these men are most intelligent, and among the nations most con- Scientious public servants.
 The fact remains, however, that most people in the United
 States, even in Washington, think of the State Department as a club of lue-st0cking B0s- tonlans who wieId their forks with their left hands and are no more representative of Ameri-
 can life than the Redskins whom their ancestors pushed
 west.
 Broadly speaking this is not true. Yet there is just enough truth in it to make the picture persist. Out of the several thou sand diplomats. consuls, clerks and gtenographers who really make up the State Department both at home and abroad. only a few deserve the eplthetS they get. However. these happen to be placed in strategic places where they constantly and consistently act as a cinder in the public eye. UNFORTUNATE POSITION
 There are two other concrete reasons for the state Departments unfortunate position.
 FIRST, a sense Of self-import- ailce ls inspired hy association with the Monaychs and AInhassa-