OUR HARASSED DIPLOMATS: TOO MUCH KIBITZING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100490008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

CHICAGO TRIBUNE OW-8
CPYF hiiTized - Approved PQY Rdle~?b : CIA-
~' X ~' $"~... ? 1~~Ik1:.; A enetrating
mysteries has recently been
g taken by a. subcommittee of the
1 rob 1 e iii S' an 1 Senate committee on govern-
ment operations. Its 1t;- Washington agencies are still 'I
? 1 ~age mg the boat, or in punching a
, Po'i ysi ao. , , study is entitled "The Amcri- permitted to dispute with the' h I
can Ambassador." During state department the right of :i ? (" In the bottom.
.. r Lg% r.s, au 1nr / nearly two years of nonpartisan the latter. to have the final + comme, the subcommittee'
iii i?.e',;~ hu.)k, "harewcll t investigation, this small and word on the conduct of foreign reomraends that ambassadors,
li0oni,'?' retired , Cficient subcommittee, headed affairs, and the representatives should return to Washington'
a+ft~ r 90 years in th y Sen. Henry M. Jackson aboard of those agencies, while more frequently - tw'(+ or three'
t
;7_+il'1a~ `laic., diplomatic Sol .%. Wash.] took testimony subordinate to the ambassador i times a year at least -.to reirn-'
flea 1u' trig wJii,. hl !le serve rom the secretary of state in matters of protocol and on merse themselves in the stream'
e, aIi Ii s to ^it;pht cool nd his ranking assistants,, and ceremonial occasions, still have of policy making and to snake,
ii Ir'1s ?,al tfa?ee continents. rom 10 American ambassadors, wide latitude in their activities sure that each embassy abroad
Ib:s article wri1tcj11 for th and o erations,
Relief 1111 to President p is in step with the procession at Associated Press,' he tells o home.'
prohl! rns of diplomats an The subcommittee concludes, Urge Wider Authority
hat no profession in the world The ambassadorial anfhor't ! A c!arnp down on the open`'
offer-( suer stions for in,
o
p
v as much a prey to deep think- should extend to funds and per moot policy" is likewise advo-
iu; the diplomatic service. rs, backseat drivers, and do-;1 sonneI, including the budgets ! dated so that it is the animas '
BY 7.IS 4. BIiSGG5 ooders as that of diplomacy.; of okher agencies' and the, as sadoi who t? spokesman tot
T11e almbarsadol',~ as?the chic f; ad 1 that if:American chiefs of signment of the key officials the American government in a
fission are to sur'Vive the min from those agencies who given L:o`n'try "an(, not a troupe'
rcpt -ientatiYe .of his ' gooey are me a abroad, -has'. become th ' trati6ns of these amateurs ancl' to serve in the ambassador's J of visiting firemen."
has Cssed American, struggling olunteers,. they must have au.:[ establishment. Needs Support at Home
t lority commensurate with the
;11'ith the twirl hazards of Was 1 sponsibilities they are ox-
ing'.on,planning' and absente -cted to discharge. Tha solu-
marlagernenti and with' almos t on is impossible of realization
11 as many kibitzers and crusader Ii 'less the President himself is
underfoot, as there are at al cpared to take action. Re-
gover'urr.i:nt. They fraiy nicer; a modern ambassador, in : Should Have Veto Right ~ before the matter has died on
~phoncti' like c g'a tl 'w/ords of the subcommittee the burocratic vine, or with
iS at ''a r ort, is expected to perform And if the hazard seems in Fler.l;"' re?ta, a'l(1 they have h "with less rode- ' the ambassador's udg
I erect on the dessicated stalky
functions ment to of
a missed opportunity.
44' lithe lines carrvillo their outweigh the possible
cinr gain, he
:n:' h?ine 'to ' 'u: ,ing ton p dence and less policy author- This could be accomplished'
, a position to veto by ff
1t than ambassadors once ex- ! should be in increasing the stature of the
~'I'' :'l.'i101' i('il n emha557 .. ,..,.a __J .._?_ ,_._ t h a nn,-rnfinn nfl-...:-. IL-
make the authority of the amp 1115 post and trying to paddle
his canoe for him. Those visi-
bassador effective. The 44 tow.- ?