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Fedora appointments IAN into
two Catcgor'cS Presidential o.
fcers and civil service employees
Presidertsl appointments. - IN
6lcstco. &C 'n70e hv tho President
nv and with the advice ard con-
srri ~ t'1c senate Civil service
appointments arc m sde through
cor ctltive examinations
Under the New Deal and dur
tng the war emergency the mum
her Of colored persons appointed
In the classified civil service in
creased greatly. PARTICULARS in
the war agencies But since the
Taft administration there has
hren no sppreciahle gain in
presidential appointments In
fact. President Wilson made only
one or two
PRESIDENTIAL appointments
tnclude srhssscdo~> ul nlSlcrS and
eonsu.s There arc N mo foreign
service ~ 30 United states
t9;-l - 067 q r.rTs'.c consular
sna foreign ,cr,lcc QHccrs or
t-st number only '0'cc 80 col
o~e5 They arc !csfc Walton
r-in.s ;cr - Liberia WGlar' {
George 'h.rd secretary OF 'hc icca-
toH ~ Morrow I'D Clt'on
Wtsrton. American maritime dole
este m the A10.c 4 fourth Ru.
Pct IloNd hes W,t passed the
Foreign service .eNar nation aud
~ probably VN hc assr-0cd rs
fore IN soy zee officer ~ Norrotia
4, the close O, he Tt, admin
i,'rstI1D there were Is Ca.orcd
r'en IN The foreign service Henry
" FuruIsS was minis ter 10 Haiti
j. Liberia. william y Cyum was
inc minister Richard { Bundv. the
secretary ~ the legation. and Col
rhcr captain Charles Young NaS
rilliarv auaChc
Consuls were George II Jack
son ~ Cogna, France Christopher
y Payne - ST Thomas. Virgin
Islands William II Hunt al 81
F'IenHe France Edmond A Bur.
I'll Dyire and de uty counSub al
s. Ftiennc. James G. Carter Al
TamstaNc, Madagascar. william J
VERIFY a. Sierra Leone West Az
rica Lcmucl w Livingston al
C7pe Haitian. HIATT and Herbert
r Wrieht. Of Puerto Cabello.
Bcnczuclla
Eurniss was the last coIored
man 10 serve a. minister to
Haiti. President Wilson appoint
ed Madison r. Smith Of Missouri
and Arthur Baillv- Blanchard Of
Louisiana, both white, successive
ly. 10 the post At Port-au-Prince.
DURING THE American oCCu-
patton this government was repre-
scented al Port-au-Prince by Gen
John II Russell as American high
commissioner. Upon the with
drawal of the United States ma
rlnes. President Hoover appointed
Dana c. Munro. white. Of New
Jersey. on June 28. 1890. and Nor
man Armour. white. also OF New
Jersey. on July 26 1892.
President Franklin - Roosevelt
followed Hoovcr's example and
appointed George A Gordon.
white. on June 5. 1895. and Ferdi-
nand L. Mayer, white. OF Indiana.
on July l3. 1897 The present am
basssdor 10 Haiti is Ormo Wilson,
also white.
In . democracy there ought not
"a be any traditionally white or
additionally black jobs. EvSry
American citizen should have an
equal opportunity tn serve his
country according to his ability
and character.
BEING QUITE realistic. how
ever. il appears - that greater
reco 2nition in Presidential APP
pointments should be given 10
colored persons and % that in |
the foreign service there are some !
countries in which colored men !
could ably represent their gov
eminent
Examples are Brazil. where
Adolph A Bcrle Jr is the present |
ambassador. as we'll as in other
Latin American countries which
look with distrust al democracy AS
precticcd in the United States:
Ethiopia where the present ambas-
ssdor is Felix Cole: the French /
possessions-Alceria French Equa-
torial Africa. French West Africa. (
the French West Indies. New
Caledonia in the South Pacific. /
Oceanic in the Central Pacific; |
Madagascar tof the coast NJ South /.
Africa. and TuniSia in North Al ,
rica: the British possessions in
West Africa-Accra Nigeria and
Sierra Leone; Haiti. Mexico and /
The Portuguese pessessiapS-o +
Mozambique and Angola. Africa.
Democratic party chieftains /
may well consider some OF these +
posts as rewards 10 deserving col
ored Democrats. whose education.
training and background ~ them
l. - "a ~