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EXHIBIT V

REMARKS BY SECRETARY OF STATE RUSK BEFORE THE FOREIGN SERVICE WIVES ASSOCIATION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

October 16, 1963

It's a great joy for me to have this chance to be here to salute the unsung heroines of our postwar world.

It is the wives who go with their husbands for service overseas. I'm thinking of some 250,000 American wives who are serving overseas with Government or with the military services or in business or in private organizations. And, of course, I think very especially of the wives who serve with those activities abroad directly related to and with the Department of State, our Foreign Service wives, our AID wives, our USIA wives, and those from the other agencies who join with us in our embassies abroad.

Let me say that I also think of the wives of the diplomatic corps who come here from other countries because they too demonstrate what I am just about to say, because I think the public in this country hasn't begun to realize what a strategic resource, Mrs. Louchheim, we have in this great community of wives abroad.

These are three-dimensional people, thank Heaven, but that makes them very much alive.

The first dimension is that they are wives and mothers, a full-time job, with a family, sometimes in far-off and difficult (sometimes even dangerous) parts of the world, struggling to create a normal family life, to preserve the health of their children, to do something about education, to keep the old man efficiently on his job, and to manage all of the other components of running a family.

The second dimension, too, is a full-time job in our business. There is no profession, perhaps with the exception of the ministry, in which the wife is more necessarily involved in the profession of her husband as in diplomacy.

This has not always been true. I understand that it was not until about the early 17th century that diplomats were allowed, or at least encouraged, to take their wives with them. I have not yet completed my research for all the reasons behind that injunction. But the diplomatic wife is not what popular impression of an earlier day might suppose.

A diplomatic wife is not a Mata Hari; the situation isn't even like it was when Benjamin Franklin was abroad. Benjamin Franklin courted the approval of the ladies of the French court, for example, by fitting spectacles on to most of them, and fitting them personally. But the diplomatic wife today is an extraordinary person doing ordinary jobs with great capacity, with all of the tact. and the understanding, the physical stamina, the imagination, and the unlimited curiosity that goes with this great profession in which we are involved. So we are very proud of what our wives are doing for the official functions of the Department of State.

The third dimension is to take part in the life of the community. And here we have in front of us an exhibit which illustrates dramatically what some of those activities are. These are a part of a great American tradition. De Tocqueville learned this-when any American finds something that needs doing, he wanders, finds a few neighbors and forms a committee to do something about it. This is part of our experience in this country in which the women have played an enormous part * * *.

But there is another element here that I find intriguing. Throughout much of the world there is a great revolution going on, the revolution of development, revolution of entry into the modern world, and that revolution includes the revolution, the liberation of the women. Indeed we are all very closely linked because development won't occur unless every citizen puts his hand to the job that is immediately in front of him. And you will find that where the women

of a particular country have thrown their effort behind the development effort, the development program, that enormous strides are made as compared with those where the women are holding back.

Now this involvement in the life of the community by American women abroad is very important. And you can see it in its reciprocal relationship here in Washington. You can't pick up a single daily paper in Washington without reading of the participation of the diplomatic wives of the diplomatic corps in the community life of this Capital or the community life of this country. This is one of the great unknown ways, the great unheralded ways of learning about people, of weaving these strands of understanding between them which are so important in our total relationships.

I hope none of you will think that the Foreign Service Wives Association was in any sense presumptuous in helping us put together this display. I urged them to find ways to help us tell this story because I think it's so important a story to tell. And they are going to be telling it, I hope, not only here in Washington but in other parts of the country, and telling it not just about their own organization but about other women in other departments and agencies, other activities, other countries where this great story is so important.

EXHIBIT VI

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FROM WHICH FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS HAVE RECEIVED UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

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Nebraska-Continued

Midland College

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Municipal University of Omaha
Nebraska State Teachers College
Union College

University of Nebraska

Nevada: University of Nevada
New Hampshire:

Dartmouth College

Mount St. Mary College

University of New Hampshire

New Jersey:

Drew University

Jersey City State College

Princeton University

Rider College

Rutgers, The State University

St. Peter's College
Trenton State College
Union Junior College

New Mexico:

New Mexico Western College University of New Mexico

New York:

Adelphi College

Bard College

Broome Technical Community College

Canisius College

Colgate University

College of the City of New York Columbia University

Barnard College

Cornell University

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Antioch College

Baldwin-Wallace College
Bluffton College

Bowling Green State University
Capital University

Case Institute of Technology
College of Wooster
Denison University
Heidelberg College
Hiram College

John Carroll University
Kent State University
Kenyon College
Marietta College
Miami University
Mount Union College
Muskingum College
Oberlin College
Ohio State University
Ohio University

Ohio Wesleyan University
Otterbein College

University of Akron

University of Cincinnati

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University of Dayton

University of Toledo

Western Reserve University

Wittenberg University

Youngstown University

Oklahoma:

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