The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18

year It is asking for funds to ern- ploy 4100 hands who will be scat tered in some six buildings.
 The four-fold increase is personnel in both wars is not mentioned as a horrible example of the growth of bureaucracy but as an index of the growing importance of foreign . relations i'll American life. In a shrinking world it becomes more and more necessary to pay attention to what goes on in other lands and splendid isolationiSm becomes an increasingly dead duck.
 The comparison on State Depart- ment employees at home only begins to tell the story. In l939 the Foreign Service the overseas branch of the Department - had 3700 en- ployes. For next year it wants 7200. In 1899 the State Department bud get was Is million dollars. For next year 1t is asking " million dollars. CHEAP COMPARED
 TO WAR BILL
 If that seems like a lot of money, compare it with war costs. Spend Ing at the rate of six billion dollars a month, POO million a day, eight million an hour, the shooting war now consumes as much money in one l0-hour day aS 1t will take to run the entire State Department for a whole year. The big objective of tn State Department in the com iH,lT hat.,fr l,n kn n1 1ict, IF an international peace organization which will prevent future wars, the question is whether its expenditure isn't good insurance and good in- veStment even if part of 1t should go for cultural relations and informa- tion programs which by 1914 stand ards might not seem exactly neces- Sary.
 Liberation of France and the Philippines spell the beginning of the problem Of getting American business re-eStablishcd in all the War-torn countries. It will take dip lomatic and consular offices to pave the way Full defeat of Germany and Japan will pose an even greater problem in establishing interna- tional relations.
 The complexity of the job in most of the $50 Foreign Service posts has been increased by the war. Consular and diplomatic work is no longer a part-time, soft job confined to stamping few passports, keeping tourists from home out of trouble, attending teas and contributing to every native charity shakedoWn. In the courS of this war the need has arisen for more and better economic attaches, civil aeronautics attaches, mining, agricultural, petroleum or other one commodity experts, cul- tural relations attaches, specialists on collecting and spreading inform ation of interest to the United Stats.
 10 MILLION FOR NEXT
 FISCAL YEAR
 There are already some 70 inter- national agencies like the Pan American union, health and sanita- tion conferences, now operating, but that is only'a beginning of the in- ternational cooperation plans afoot. Up to now, in the Breton Woods conference OH international mone- tary stabilization. the Dumbarton Oaks conference one postwar security, the Chicago conference on civil aviation, all the work has been rsearch and study. From here on the job will be to implment these schemes It will take qualified men and money-Some 10 million dollars for the nxt 1isctl year according to budget estimates That represents only a little over an hours war spending. Much of the manpOWer, 1t is hoped. will come from Army and Navy civil affairs officers who have been gaining invaluable exper- fence overseas and should be well qualified to carry on the intelna- tional burden when war is over.
 This whole build-up of the U. s. Forign Service has for its purpose the establishment Of American rep resentation abroad to cope with to- morroW'S problems and to wage peace as effectively as thlS country has Waged war.