The Foreign Service Journal, March 1936
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g,L AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ★ * JOURNAL * * VOL. XIII MARCH, 1936 No. 3 IT S NO PLACE LIKE HOME /tru' While we’ve never seen the statistics, we’ll wager fast in your room, it quietly appears (with a flower and there’s no home in the country staffed with such reti¬ the morning paper on the tray). If you crave in-season nues of valets and butlers, chefs and secretaries, maids or out-of-season delicacies, you'll find them in any of and men servants, as our hotel. That’s why we say the our restaurants. Prepared with finesse and served with New Yorker is "no place like home" — purposely. We finesse. You may have your railroad or air-line or theatre know that everyone secretly longs for and enjoys the tickets ordered for you and brought to you. You may luxury of perfect hotel service. And you have your shirts and suits speeded back know it is yours at the New Yorker, with¬ from laundry or valet, with buttons sewed out luxurious cost. • It is unobtrusive ser¬ 25% reduction on and rips miraculously mended.You may vice, too, that never gets on your nerves. to diplomatic and have all this service by scarcely lifting a fin¬ Everyone—from the doorman to the man¬ consular service ger. • You will find the Hotel New Yorker NOTE: the special rate ager— is always friendly, always helpful — reduction applies only conveniently located, its staff pleasantly at¬ to rooms on which the but never effusive. If you want a lazy break¬ rate is $4 a day or more. tentive, and your bill surprisingly modest. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Company, Inc. • Ralph Hitz, President Other Hotels Under Same Direction: HOTEL LEXINGTON, NEW YORK . NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI . BOOK-CADILLAC, DETROIT THE ADOLPHUS, DALLAS . NICOLLET HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS • HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON CONTENTS (MARCH. 1936) COVER PICTURE WOODWARD & LOTHROP Dove Orchid 10th, 11th, F and G Streets (See also page 160) WASHINGTON, D. C., U. S. A. "A Store Worthy of The Nation’s Capital” AN ALPINE ARCADIA By G. Bie Ravndal 125 TROY. EPHESUS, PERGAMUM By the Honorable Robert P. Skinner 128 Would You Like SCHOLARSHIPS 130 SAILS OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN to Have Choice Sketches by Coert du Bois 131 EXOTIC ENVOYS American Foods By Florence Nightingale Moore 132 The Food Shop Offers a Most Complete ORCHID HUNTERS By John Ferguson, 111 135 Stock—and Our Personal Shopping Service W/ill Choose for You How IT’S DONE IN MEXICO 137 THE GREYHOUND OF DON QUIXOTE Having good American foods in foreign lands is By Augustin W. Ferrin 138 indeed a palatable pleasure. The Woodward & EARLY CONSULAR DAYS IN THE AZORES Lothrop Food Shop is most exacting, both as to By Augustus E. Ingram 140 quality and variety, in the delicacies it offers. Hun¬ NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 143 dreds of different vegetables, fruits, preserves, NEWS FROM THE FIELD _ 146 cheese spreads, fish, and hors d’oeuvres are here. Space permits us to mention but a few of our A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF canned foods—however, we will do our best to fill Cyril Wynne, Review Editor any order you care to place. Can We Be Neutral? Reviewed by Joseph E. Green 148 Premier Apricots, No. 2.Vi tin . 30c Policy of the United States Toward Mari¬ Premier Bartlett Pears, 1-pound tin 19c time Commerce in War 149 Kings Fancy Peaches, No. 21/2 tin 25c Bv Pacific Means Golden Tap Orange Juice, No. 2 tin 15c Reviewed by C. W 149 Premier Fancy Tomatoes, No. 2 V2 tin 20c Lily-of-the-Valley Tiny Refugee Beans— FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 150 No. 2 tin 25c MARRIAGES, BIRTHS 152 Premier All-Green Asparagus, No. 2 tin ... 30c Patriot Fancy Maine Corn, No. 2 tin 15c IN MEMORIAM 153 Patriot Coffee, vacuum packed, 1-lb. can .. 35c AMBASSADOR SKINNER RETIRES 163 Prices Subject to Change Without Notice LETTERS ..... 164 TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 164 Address your order or communication to Mrs. Marian Tolson. Woodward & Lothrop, Washington, FOREIGN SERVICE FAMILIES, PHOTOGRAPHS 170 D. C., United States of America. She will person¬ SERVICE VISITORS . 180 ally shop for you, and send your order according to Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ your instructions. tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. 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MASTERPIECE OF TIRE CONSTRUCTION 124 THE FOREIGN S JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. XIII, No. 3 WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH. 1936 Ail Alpine Arcadia By G. BIE RAVNDAL, Consul General, Retired EMPERORS, kings and princes fared badly af- trict of Columbia, but it enjoys a variety of singu- ter the late unpleasantness. Throughout the lar distinctions. It is today the only monarchy German-speaking dominions these potentates were within the entire German-speaking world. But it more or less gently forced off is also the only former mem¬ their thrones, one after the ber of the German Confedera¬ other, until only one crowned tion (which latter alliance held head remained, a striking sym¬ the stage from 1815 to 1866), bol of stability in a world of remaining intact, a poignant tumultuous and disturbing and piquant historic relic.