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• Publication Date: August 30, 1964
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,CONDUCT OF THE NEW DIPLO-
MACY. By James L. McCamy, 303
pp. New York and Evanston: Har-
per & Row, $6.50.
OVERTIME IN HEAVEN: Adventures
in the Foreign Service. By Peter
r Lisagor and Marguerite Higgins.
275 pp.' New York: Doubleday Et
Co. $4.95.
By HERBERT FEIS
ange has
1'U been occurring in the
weather of opinion about the
character and performance of
the men in the State Department
and Foreign Service of the Unit-
ed States.' It used to be stormy
and cruelly cold. It has become
respectful and almost benign.
What can account for the
change? Have these men sud--
denly improved for the better?
Has development of thermonu-
Mr. Feis is the author of "The
Road to Pearl Harbor" and'
"Japan Subdued."
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clear weapons brought realiza-
tion of the crucial dependence
of the nation upon them? Is
it because President Kennedy
and Dean Rusk openly mani-
fested a greater regard for
them? Is it because of a tardy
sense of guilt for allowing Sen-
ator McCarthy and his associ.
ates to malign and destroy repu-
Or is it a corrective expression
of dissent from such preposter-
ous versions of their work as
that given in "The Ugly Amer-
ican" ?
The change is exemplified by
two recent books, wholly unlike
in scope, focus of interest and
style.
"Conduct of the New Diplo-
macy" is a serious yet animated
scrutiny of the organization and
administrative methods through
which the Government conducts
our foreign relations. By
straightforward exposition and
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by well analyzed illustrative
episodes - especially the,., U-2
affair-James L. McCamy dent=""
..onstrates'that the organization
is too sprawling. He writes,
"Too many interagency com-
mittees, too much paper to be
passed around for initials, too
many staff meetings with too
many attending, too many iu-
are
endemic in government and all
symptoms of the failure to put
things together."
To correct these and other
defects, Mr. McCamy, professor
of political science at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, proposes
several drastic reforms; especi-
ally that all agencies and per-
sons regularly concerned with
foreign relations' be clustered
under three main centers of
authority-the Executive Office
of the President and the depart-
ments of State and Defense.
For his effort to grapple with
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