艾森豪威尔政府惯于用驻外大使的官职来酬答那些捐助过竞选基金的大商人们,这早就是公开的秘密了。从今年1月起,它所任命的一批驻外大使中间,就有六个人都是在竞选运动中间捐过钱的非职业外交人员。7月初发表的新任驻锡兰大使马克斯韦尔·格拉克是俄亥俄州大商人,以做妇女服装生意出名,在许多大城市设有生意兴隆的连锁商店。他尽管很有经商的才干,但他的知识水平是完全不够做驻锡兰大使的条件的。他之所以得到任命,显然无非因为在过去两次共和党竞选运动中间,他捐献过几万块美金罢了。 It has long been an open secret that the Eisenhower administration is accustomed to using the offices of foreign ambassadors to pay the big players who donated electioneering funds. Since January this year, among the ambassadors appointed by it, there are six non-professional diplomats who have donated money during the campaign. Maxwell Gerak, the new ambassador to Ceylon, who was released in early July, is a big Ohio businessman who is known for his women’s apparel business and has a thriving business in many big cities. Although highly qualified to do business, he did not have enough knowledge to be ambassador to Ceylon. Apparently he was appointed, apparently only because he had donated tens of thousands of U.S. dollars in the past two Republican campaign.