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The excellent results which have attended the partial application of Civil Service principles to the diplomatic and consular services are an earnest of the benefit to be wrought by a wider and more permanent extension of those principles to both branches of the foreign service.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft praises the positive outcomes of applying Civil Service principles to foreign services.

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