Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5202.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.170]) by strange.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tjav6b.j12.37kbi0u for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:38:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010624053817.1045.qmail@web5202.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.163.207.186] by web5202.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:38:17 PDT Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:38:17 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 373 To: MPCGram@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ============================================== MPC Gram ============================================== Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics ----------------------------------------------- Series 002-Number 373 Saturday, June 23, 2001 Book Review of the "Report on the Progress of Appointment of Personnel to Designated Government Positions under Article IX of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Public Service Law" prepared by Bureau of Recruitment Secretariat of The National Personal Authority" by Howard A. Daniel III I was recently in the Second Story Book Warehouse in Rockville, Maryland looking through a huge stack of 75% off stock and saw the above title. What a title! It was on a booklet of about 5x8 inches with card covers and poor quality paper, and it did not look like much, but then I saw "Chief, Civil Service Div., GHQ, Supreme Commander for Allied Powers" written in pencil in the upper right corner and the signature of "Maynard N. Shriver" above it. When I looked at some of the pages in the middle of it, I saw many Japanese names. Hmmmmm, maybe something for Joe Boling's library. Its original price was $25. but the current discount brought it down to $6.25, so it was in his price range. After looking at it for about two or three minutes I found it was mostly about the examinations and results for Japanese people to fill thousands of government postions, but it also had some other bits of information in it. There were some extra pages at the front, but it was basically the pages from the Japanese Government's "Official Gazette, English Edition". The first issue in it is dated November 12, 1949. Under the Prime Minister's Office in the Foreign Exchange Control Commission is the Chief of Foreigh Trade Sec. Did he have anything to do with Foreign Trade Payment Certificates (FTPCs)? And under the Ministry of Finance is a Chief of Foreign Exchange Sec. There is also the Mint Agency for coins and the Printing Agency for bank notes. There is also an extensive section on the Ministry of Postal Services with many finance-oriented positions. Another area had a Foreign Trade Bur. under the Economic Stabiliation Board. Did they have anything to do with the FTPCs? For Joe's non-military research, there are many items throughout the booklet about banks, stocks and bonds. Some of the are about foreign companies and banks having their property returned to them. Another interesting area are the large round postmarks that must be used a certain post offices around the country. There is also the format for Ministry of Finance identification cards. I wonder if Joe has any of them? There is also an "Extra" section for the first issue of the "Official Gazette" and it describes the examinations; places for them for them, and the positions. It appears they were looking for replacements for most of the central government office chiefs. The Foreign Exchange Control Board, Foreign Exchange Section, and Economic Stabilization Board described above are here too. Maybe there were still a lot of leftovers from the wartime government who had to be replaced? The next "Official Gazette" is dated November 19, 1949. There is an item about the Ministry of Postal Services Post Cards with New Year's Present, and Others law and this included payments. This sounds like an area that might have been operating during World War II too. There is also a section on a Ministry of Postal Services Notification of post cards to be sold with a surcharge to support the Community Chest and the Red Cross. May 13, 1950 is the date on the next "Official Gazette". There is a section here on National Horse Racing with details on everything to include the prize money. Can you imagine starting a race track and the government telling you how much money you can give the winners? It appears much of Japanese life is VERY controlled by a central authority, as it is today! There is another section "....in consequence of the Acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration" where Japanese government bonds of 1924 and Certificates of deposits in British Pounds will be settled. The last "Official Gazette" is dated June 10, 1950. It has only a few pages, but several of them show the Two Yen postcards to be issued on June 15. Joe Boling and I have had a long standing understanding to look for references and other things for our libraries and collections. I think this find for him will be a welcome addition to his library, especially at $6.25. =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- I am sorry that I started talking about the NLG without properly introducing the organization. The Numismatic Literary Guild is an organization by, of, and for numismatic writers and editors. It is more than 25 years old. I have been a member for a long time, but am not a charter member. One of the major activities of the organization is a large awards program recognizing writers for work published in the preceeding year. The comments in the gram were about the program for this year. I am proud (and amazed) to report that both World War II Remembered and the Comprehensive Catalog of Military Payment Certificates have received the highest awards from the NLG--book of the year. This award is given in competition against all books in the respective year. For a book in our field to win this award, it has to beat United States and other coin books so it was indeed exciting to win those awards. Now we have to have some Gram writers win some NLG awards! =========================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Gary, It's not clear to me what note you have; there's no Bank of Commerce in China. Bank of Communicatonis? What Pick number? No, I would not expect there to be a premium on the 5 yuan over the 1 yuan, but please send me a Xerox of the note for the next (hah) edition. Joe Dear Trung, I was happy to read you are visiting Viet Nam from June 29 to July 22. I will be in Viet Nam from July 14 to July 27. The first week will be in the Mekong Delta with family and friends and the second week will be in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). I will be staying at the Asian Hotel at 150 Dong Khoi in HCMC and hope you can contact me there. Do you want to know of my four primary dealers and one or two collectors in HCMC? I would really like to meet your grandparent's neighbor who is a local communist official and a former NLF finance officer. There are several questions I would like to ask him about the old DRVN paper money in Nam Bo, and some of the early conversions to new notes. Howard A. Daniel III ================================================ Departments --------------------------------------------------- WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar 2001 --------------------------------------------------- Not only does the scholarship fund have an official identity but also has a bank account! Any further donations should be paid to the order of "Military Numismatists Scholarship" and sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 THE UPDATED LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP BENEFACTORS 3/22/01. 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