Talk:United States Commercial Service/Archives/2016

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Quote: 151.3 RECORDS OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE DIVISION 1917-40

History: Commercial Attaches Division (CAD) established in BFDC, 1914, pursuant to establishment of a commercial attache service in Department of Commerce by the appropriations act for FY 1915 (38 Stat. 500), July 16, 1914. Foreign Investigations Division (FID; also known as Commercial Agents Division), responsible for coordinating investigations conducted overseas by experts in specific commodities, established in BFDC, July 1, 1916. CAD and FID consolidated to form Foreign Service Division, May 1920. BFDC corps of commercial attaches and trade commissioners (the latter formerly known as commercial agents) given legal recognition as Foreign Commerce Service (FCS) by an act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1394). Pursuant to transfer of FCS to Department of State by Reorganization Plan No. II, effective July 1, 1939, Foreign Service Division redesignated Foreign Service Liaison Division, 1940; and further redesignated Liaison Office, 1941. Pursuant to BFDC reorganization, 1945, Liaison Office assigned to Office of International Trade (SEE 151.9) and redesignated Foreign Service Liaison Staff; further redesignated Foreign Service Operations Staff, 1947, and Foreign Service Operations Division (FSOD), 1950. FSOD abolished with Office of International Trade, effective October 12, 1953. Functions transferred to newly established Bureau of Foreign Commerce and assigned to Foreign Service Operations Staff in Office of the Director. Unquote. Amustard (talk) 04:02, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I have removed a line stating that the Service had a hand in a riot or civil disorder in Atlanta in 1934--first, I can find no other reference to such a riot or disorder, and, more importantly, there is no rational connection between a federal organization that operates abroad and a civil disorder in Atlanta. Possibly this was inserted through a mistaken identification with the Service and a labor union organizing textile workers at the time. There was, in 1934, labor unrest in Georgia within the textile industry. I do not think that had anything to do with the Service. NelsonLB (talk) 04:26, 2 September 2014 (UTC)