Ambassadorial Appointments: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session, on Views of Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter on Nomination of Maxwell H. Gluck to be Ambassador to Ceylon, and Related Matters. August 1, 1957

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Page 9 - ... percent of our ambassadors and ministers are career Foreign Service officers. This proportion is higher than at any time in the past. As you indicate in your letter, there is a special problem arising from the fact that certain posts are very expensive. In some foreign countries the costs of discharging the duties of a diplomatic chief of mission are so much greater than the salary and allowances available that it is feasible to appoint...
Page 8 - ... the career service and from outside the Government service, and the benefits of this practice can be readily demonstrated. We should not...
Page 8 - ... do so. The committee has on occasions given the benefit of the doubt to nominees. It seems to me, however, an insufficient reason that there is no real...
Page 28 - Yes, as I understand it, and I am not an expert in the budgetary field, the Department puts in a lump sum for representation allowances.
Page 29 - Ambassadors would be awfully glad, but the Congress would have to take the rap on that one.

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