DIVISION OF LATIN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS General supervision, under the secretaries, of relations, diplomatic and consular, political and economic, with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay, and Venezuela. DIVISION OF WESTERN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS General supervision, under the secretaries, of relations, diplomatic and consular, political and economic, with Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain (including Northern Ireland, British Dominions beyond the Seas, India), Hungary, Irish Free State, Italy, Liberia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and international organizations in Europe. European possessions in the Far East in conjunction with the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. General supervision, under the secretaries, of relations, diplomatic and consular, political and economic, with Afghanistan, Albania, Arabia, Bulgaria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Iraq, Palestine, Persia, Rumania, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Syria and the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Turkey. ? Assigned as Counselor of Embassy at Mexico City Nov. 5, 1928, to proceed to post after Feb. 1, 1929. Assigned as Second Secretary at Managua Dec. 10, 1928, to proceed to post after Feb. 1, 1929. 30722-29-3 Emily T. Chase Clerks Mary N. Birch John N. Savage, Messenger Lillie V. Dickson DIVISION OF MEXICAN AFFAIRS General supervision, under the secretaries, of relations, diplomatic and consular, political and economic, with Mexico. General supervision, under the secretaries, of matters pertaining to Russia (including Siberia), and of relations, diplomatic and consular, political and economic, with Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Gives advice and recommendations to the Department on questions of general economic policy; unifies and coordinates economic matters within the Department; establishes and maintains liaison with the various economic bureaus in other departments; handles economic cases which have no regional character or which overlap geographical divisions; drafts correspondence on matters falling within the following special fields: Natural resources, finance, foreign commercial policy, commercial treaties and tariffs, transportation and communications. PASSPORT DIVISION Examination and adjudication of applications for passports and for registration in consulates of the United States as American citizens; issuance of passports; issuance of instructions on passport matters to the executives of the several insular possessions; supervision over the Department's passport agencies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Boston, and Seattle; direction of clerks of courts who take passport applications; correspondence regarding citizenship, passports, registration, and right to protection while abroad; issuance of letters of introduction. Gives advice and makes recommendations with reference to historical and geographical subjects; is responsible for the policy of the Department with reference to the publication of official documents; passes upon applications of scholars for permission to search the archives; has supervision over the Library, the Archives Section, the Geographical Section, and all work of the former Division of Publications, including the selection of documents for and the editing of the Foreign Relations of the United States and the Treaties and Agreements of the United States; editing of the Statutes at Large, Executive orders and proclamations, the Register, the Foreign Service List, the Documentation Series, and other publications of the Department; compiles the session laws; has custody of original laws, treaties, Executive orders and proclamations, etc.; drafts correspondence relating to the ascertainment of presidential electors and constitutional amendments; has charge of the funds of the Department for printing and binding and for books and maps; distributes publications. TYLER DENNETT, Historical Adviser S. W. BOGGS, Geographer and Assistant Chief |