16 JUNE 2024 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL JOSH In ever-increasing numbers, young men and women from England, America, Mexico, Cuba, Latin-America, China, Japan, India, Egypt, Australia, and elsewhere are leaving home to enter technical schools and colleges in other lands. The great, far-reaching influence of this movement is obvious. To grasp and appreciate its full import as a factor in international goodwill, you have only to talk, for example, with an American who has gone to school in Europe, or in England. It brings tolerance, patience, sympathy, a deeper understanding of the other fellow’s “ways.” … Consuls, again, are factors in this migration of students. … Many schools send their printed matter to their consuls abroad, and request help in recruiting students. Time and again, for example, during my consular career, fathers and their sons came to ask about schools in America. … Just what part future consuls will be able to play in securing that world peace which is so urgently needed is hard to say. But from the type of men who are being appointed to consular posts, from the very definite instructions which they receive as to the necessity for cultivating friendly relations, from the ever-growing flow of goods with which they must become familiar and the increasing international travel which they must direct, it seems likely that their opportunities will be even greater than they are at present. May they meet these opportunities with all the diplomacy and efficiency which they can master! —From an article of the same title by Frederick Simpich, American Consular Bulletin (precursor to the FSJ), June 1924. How Consuls Foster Good Will 100 Years Ago
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