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Kennedy's
Plugging
For Envoys
WASHINGTON (AP) Unlesl
President-elect John F. Kennedy
can convince Congress that Amer
ican ambassadors need more ex
pense money, he'll have to fill
some top diplomatic posts from
the ranks of the wealthy.
Kennedy started a move In the
direction of more expense money
last week when he had an arnica
ble discussion of the problem at
Plm Beach with Rep. John
Rooney, D-NY. Rooney has re
fcrred to ambassadorial entertain
ment funds as "booze allow
ances. As chairman of a House
Appropriations subcommittee Roo
ney has fought for years against
increasing them.
Rooney reported that the president-elect's
father, Joseph Ken
nedy, felt obliged to spend about
$100,000 a year of his own money
while he was ambassador to
Great Britain. Such sums are not
usually found in the bank ac
counts of career diplomats of the
type Kennedy reportedly want
to send to some of the most im
portantand expensive foreign
capitals.
Nobody denies that the country
has had a number of outstanding
amateur ambassadors. Among the
20 non-career appointees serving
abroad today are some excellent
I men, State Department profes
sionals agree.
But the present system make
it virtually impossible for a ca
reer man to accept an assignment
to London, Part, or a similar
major post. Moreover the presi
dent could not send a non-career
but brilliant man, such as a uni
versity professor who is an expert
on international problems, to sucb
a post unless he was also rich.
Officials feel this is a danserous
limitation.
The pay of an ambassador
varies from $20,000 to $27,500 a
year, which means that an am
bassador in the highest category
gets more than the secretary of
state, whose pay is only $25,000
a year.
How many are in this highest
category is an official secret be
cause it varies from time to time.
It is no secret, however, that the
ambassadors to the United Na
tions, London, Paris, Rome, Bonn,
Tokyo, New Delhi, Karachi, Mos
cow, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janei
ro, and some other places receive
the highest possible amount.
Besides his pay. the ambassa.
dor gets two allowances. Hie first
is the entertainment allowance.
The other is the house allowance
for the upkeep of his residence.
The State Department prefer
not to talk about the entertain
ment allowance. Some suggest the
reason for secrecy is that the de
partment is ashamed of how little
it is.
It is generally known that am.
bassadors at major posts get $6,
000 a year for entertainini? anil
a house allowance ranging from
iu,wu io 115,000 a year.
The yearly $6,000. mit at Hwl
disposal at the beginning of the
new fiscal year on July 1, usually '
lasts for four days. After the tra
ditional July 4th parties at the
embassies, nothing is left for the
rest of the year.
Therefore, it has been neces
sary to appoint rich men to cer
tain posts. If the department was-l
lucky it got a rich man like Doug
las Dillon, now undersecretary of
state and Kennedy's Treasury
secretary-designate. Dillon start
ed his public career as ambassa
dor to France.
How much these rich ' men
spend from their own money is
their business and anybody"!
guess; the State Department hai
no way of knowing.
James Reston, Washington bu
reau chief of the New York Times,
wrote recently that James D.
Zellerbach, President Eisenhow
er's envoy to Rome, spent $55,000
a year above his salary, and al
lowances, and John Hay Whitney,
the ambassador to London, over
$100,000.
The embassies themselves get
a certain amount for entertain
ment, to be divided among dip
lomats who have to wine and dine
in the capitals in which they are
stationed. The embassy in Tstn.
don, for Instance, is understood
to get $2S.000 a year for such
purposes, of which $6,000 goes to
me amoassauor himself.
The remaining $23,000 is rfivirf.
ed among diplomats based in Lon
don, Belfast, Birmineham. Cardiff
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool,
Manchester and SouthamDton.
which leaves hardly enouph for
modest dinner a year for a press
attache.
While British diplomats may get
less in pay than their American
colleagues, their entertainment al
lowances are known to be far
higher. Tlie British ambassador to
Washington is rumored to get 10
times as much as his opposite
number in London.
In some posts the U. S. mill f
tary comes to the aid of the diplo
mats. In Berlin, for instance, the
military picks up the tab for the
state Department, which has a
sizable group of diplomat there.
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