ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE Assistant Secretary charged with the general administration of the Department of State and supervision of matters relating to personnel and management. He has supervision over all matters pertaining to consular affairs, passports, and visas. He is fiscal officer and controls all allotments and expenditures from Congressional appropriations for the Department and its activities. He is legislative and budget officer and is charged with the supervision of the preparation of estimates of appropriations for the Department and its several activities and their presentation to Congress. He is Chairman of the Foreign Service Personnel Board and of the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service. Assistant Secretary charged with all matters pertaining to political, economic, and commercial policies having to do with Europe and the Near East, and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of State. He is a member of the Foreign Service Personnel Board. WILLIAM R. CASTLE, JR., Assistant Secretary of State LOUIS E. MUNDY, Private Secretary Mary Agnes Breen, Clerk 1 Foreign Service officer. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE Assistant Secretary charged with all matters pertaining to political, economic, and commercial policies having to do with Latin America, and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of State. He is also Chairman of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Aviation. FRANCIS WHITE, Assistant Secretary of State Anna Belle Newcomb, Clerk Thomas Sayers, Messenger ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE Assistant Secretary charged with all matters pertaining to political, economic, and commercial policies having to do with the Far East, and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of State. NELSON T. JOHNSON, Assistant Secretary of State Marion Arnold, Clerk Colbert S. Syphax, Messenger OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR Drafts and interprets treaties, conventions, protocols, and other international agreements; deals with questions of municipal, foreign, and international law, and handles diplomatic claims of American citizens against foreign governments; claims of foreigners against the Government of the United States; questions of personal and private rights of aliens in the United States and of American citizens in foreign countries, such as acquisition, inheritance, and transfer of property; arrest, detention, fines, imprisonment, personal injury, acts of insurgents, taxation, breach or annulment of concessions or other contracts; failure to pay interest or principal on Government obligations, sequestration or confiscation of property; complaints regarding action of executive, legislative, judicial, or military authorities; questions concerning the rights and privileges of American diplomatic and consular officers abroad and of foreign diplomatic and consular officers in the United States, and concerning the rights and immunities of sovereigns and public property; questions relating to the jurisdiction over and control of public or private vessels; questions relating to citizenship, naturalization, expatriation, extradition, and extraterritoriality; questions relating to the acts and rights of belligerents, neutrals, and insurgents on land or sea; and a large number of miscellaneous legal questions not included in the above classification. Clerks Mary A. Duffy Louis S. Myers Lena J. Ramsay Robert C. Davis OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT General supervision of the clerks and other employees of the Department and of routine departmental matters; purchase of supplies; custody of the property of the Department; supervision and assignment of office rooms and space; issuance of passes, when required, to persons entitled to enter the building; authentication of applications for automobile licenses of foreign diplo matic officers residing in Washington; correspondence on departmental matters; leaves of absence and sick leave; preparation and custody of efficiency records of the Department. The chief clerk signs authentications and such other papers as the Secretary of State may direct. The appointment section of his office receives and has custody of applications for appointment in the departmental service and of the indorsements of applicants; has charge of correspondence relating thereto; preparation of nominations to the Senate of Foreign Service officers and other officers commissioned by the Department of State whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate; issuance of commissions, exequaturs, and warrants of extradition; bonding of Foreign Service officers and other officers accountable to the Department for moneys received or expended; assists in the civil service and departmental personnel matters; oaths of office; has custody of the seal of the United States. E. J. AYERS, Chief Clerk and Administrative Assistant PERCY F. ALLEN, Assistant to the Chief Clerk and Chief of Appointment Section William R. Hoffman, Typewriter Repairman John L. Butler, Messenger Walter B. Edmonds, Laborer James S. Swann, Packer FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL BOARD The Office of the Executive Committee of the Board is charged with the preparation of efficiency records of Foreign Service officers; submission to the Secretary of State of names of Foreign Service officers recommended for advancement in the service, for designation as counselors of embassy or legation, and for promotion to the grade of minister; recommendations to the Secretary of State regarding the assignment of Foreign Service officers to posts and their transfer from one branch of the service to the other according to the needs of the service, recommendations to the Secretary of State regarding separations from the service. The office of the executive committee is also charged with the receipt and custody of all applications for appointment in the Foreign Service and with the arrangement for examinations for entrance to the Foreign Service and correspondence relating thereto. It prints and distributes blank forms of application for appointment in the Foreign Service and pamphlets regarding requirements for entrance therein. General supervision, under the secretaries, of relations, diplomatic and consular, political and economic, with China and leased territories, Japan, Siam, the Far Eastern possessions of European nations (in conjunction with the Division of Western European Affairs), and Siberia (in conjunction with the Division of Eastern European Affairs). Has charge of such matters pertaining to the control of the traffic in narcotic drugs as concern the Department of State. STANLEY K. HORNBECK, Chief WILLYS R. PECK,1 Assistant Chief |