贵刊第五,第九期,分别登载于冈《浅谈外交官的素质》和吴若峰《也谈外交官的素质》两文。读后获益匪浅,但又有些不甚得其要领。今略赘说一二,就教于诸君。于冈提出的五项条件、吴若峰所谈的两类知识,作为外交官,该不该具备?——简直是应该得很,应该得再无不该之处。然而,以此条件训练出的外交官就一定是一个合格的、优秀的外交官么?难道仅只“办理外交事物的官员”包括“本国外交部的官员和派驻外国的外交人员”应有这几条“素质”么?其实,一位高级的金融工作者——目下许多国家的商界大亨、财团经理、董事之类,何尝不一一如此?由此可见,于、吴文对外交官素质所阐述的几条,可以说是外交官必备的素质,但不是外交官素质的 In your fifth and ninth issues, you published articles on the quality of diplomats by Yu Gang and Wu Ruofeng’s “Also talking about the quality of diplomats.” After reading, they benefited a lot, but some did not get their way. This is a brief remark, but it is taught to the monarchs. The five conditions proposed by Yu Gang and the two types of knowledge that Wu Ruofeng talked about should not be possessed as diplomats.—It should be very good, and there should be nowhere else. However, a diplomat trained on this condition must be a qualified and excellent diplomat? Is it that only officials who handle diplomatic affairs include officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic personnel stationed in foreign countries? What is “quality”? In fact, a senior financial worker—a business tycoon, a financial manager, a director, and the like in many countries in the world—wouldn’t that be the case? The articles elaborated can be said to be the necessary qualities of diplomats, but not the qualities of diplomats.