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 matters pertaining to the intelligence aspects of the control of the traffic in narcotic drugs. 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, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Salvador, 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. General supervision, under the secretaries, of relations, diplomatic and consular, political and economic, with Mexico. DIVISION OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS 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; 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. PARKER W. BUHRMAN,' Chief of Division JOHN J. SCANLAN, Technical Adviser and Assistant Chief of Division |