OFFICE OF THE HISTORICAL ADVISER Gives advice and submits recommendations to the Secretary of State on historical and constitutional questions and matters of policy relating to current questions before the Department; is charged with the editing and compilation of the Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States, and of other publications; has supervision of the work of the Geographer of the Department; has custody of the archives of the Department up to August 15, 1906, the originals of all treaties and conventions to which the United States is a party and proclamations thereof by the President, the originals, subsequent to the sixty-seventh Congress, of all acts and resolutions of Congress and amendments to the Constitution; has custody of all records involving the preparation of the certificate of the Secretary of State proclaiming that an amendment is a part of the Constitution and of current records relating to Presidential electors. DIVISION OF RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION Research function involves the preparation of reports and memoranda on political and international questions for the Secretary of State and his assistants and, as occasion requires, for the diplomatic missions and consular offices; the preparation of Foreign Relations of the United States and other publications requiring special research work. Publication function involves the editing and distribution of all Department publications (except those prepared in the Office of the Historical Adviser) and the dissemination of information concerning them; the compilation and editing of slip laws and Statutes at Large; the furnishing to Department officials of copies of bills and information regarding status of legislation; the preparation of printing and binding estimates of entire Department and the submitting of recommendations for allocation of the printing and binding fund. Supervises Library of the Department and work of the Editor of Territorial Papers. Carries out the provisions of the act entitled "An act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930", approved June 12, 1934, so far as they relate to the Department of State, and performs such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to it by the Secretary of State. Richard Eldridge 1 Foreign Service officer. Harry C. Hawkins, Chief Henry L. Deimel, Jr., Assistant Chief Leander B. Lovell Jacques J. Reinstein James C. Sappington, 3d John H. Fuqua Curtis W. Barnes Bainbridge C. Davis James H. Lewis Is charged with the supervision of the fulfillment of the international obligations of the United States with respect to the international traffic in arms, ammunition, and implements of war, and with assisting in the preparation of treaties and international agreements dealing with this subject; supervision of the carrying out of the policy of the Government in respect to the international traffic in arms, ammunition, and implements of war; performance of all necessary duties in connection with the administration and enforcement of the statutes providing for the supervision and control of the manufacture of and the international traffic in arms, ammunition, and implements of war, and the exportation of tin-plate scrap and helium gas, and of the statutes designed to maintain the neutrality of the United States so far as the administration of these statutes is vested in the Secretary of State; assisting the Secretary of State in the performance of his duties as Chairman of the National Munitions Control Board; maintaining liaison with other departments of the Government in regard to matters relating to the duties of the office. OFFICE OF PHILIPPINE AFFAIRS Carries out, under the Secretaries, the provisions, so far as they relate to the Department of State, of the act entitled "An act to provide for the complete independence of the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes", approved March 24, 1934, and, in conjunction with other interested divisions, especially the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, has general charge of such other matters as concern the Department of State in relation to the Philippine Islands. Is charged with arrangements for international conferences, congresses, expositions, and conventions in which the United States is to participate, at home or abroad, and, in cooperation with other branches of the Government and interested persons and organizations, determination of the extent and character of that participation; supervision of the fulfillment of the international obligations of the United States with respect to membership in and expenditures for international treaty commissions, committees, bureaus, and other organizations. This division is charged with general responsibilities and duties in connection with international civil aviation and particularly with activities of the Interdepartmental Committee on Civil International Aviation (the Chief of the Division is Executive Secretary of the Committee and keeps its records); with the obtaining of permission for American aviators to make flights in foreign countries and for foreign aviators to make flights in the United States. Mr. Dickover is Acting Chief during the absence of Mr. Jacobs who is serving with the Joint Committee on Philippine Affairs during its investigation in the Philippine Islands. |