g/,c AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE * * JOURNAL * * IT S NO PLACE LIKE HOME /UtK ^lo&elys. 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 • HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL CONTENTS COVER PICTURE: Relief on Temple Wall, Edfu (See also page 208) Go AMERICAN THE NEW TURKEY By the Honorable Robert P. Skinner 189 ONE CLASS APRIL FOOL By Henry Serrano 192 INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION, to and from UNITED STATES, ALASKA, AND CANADA By James H. Van Wagenen 194 WASHINGTON BEHIND THE SCENES IN HOLLYWOOD By Lonnelle Davison 198 ENJOY every travel comfort at low A STREET SCENE IN TANGIER cost and the convenience of sail¬ Photograph by Thomas M. Wilson 201 ing from or landing at Baltimore an hour distant from Washington. flThe OVERLAND THROUGH AFRICA best on board and every service is By Hugh S. Miller 202 yours on the American One Class liners of the Baltimore Mail fleet. LETTERS _ 206 Larger than ordinary staterooms, all outside on upper decks. Spaciousness APPROPRIATION BILL 208 and spotless cleanliness everywhere. NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 209 Fine food. Choice wines and liquors at reasonable prices. NEWS FROM THE FIELD 212 Weekly sailings to and from Ham¬ A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF...— 214 burg, and westbound from Havre. Fortnightly to London and Havre Cyril Wynne, Review Editor from Baltimore and Norfolk. “An American Foreign Policy,” by Vinton Special consideration given officials Chapin. in United States foreign services. “Lloyd George,” by Mahlon F. Perkins. “Canada—An American Nation,” n m 1 Minimum Rates *1 by LaVerne Baldwin. One Way • Round Trip ^ I / I “American Militarism,” by Brockholst Liv¬ Stateroom with bath or shower slightly higher. ingston. Passenger Offices: FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES 216 WASHINGTON, D. C. NEW YORK CITY 743 14th Street, N. W. 1 Broadway VISITING OFFICERS 218 or any office of International Mercantile Marine Co. MARRIACES, BIRTHS 218 LONDON HAMBURG 7 Haymarket, S.W.I. Alsterthor 8c Ferdinandstrasse TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 219 BERLIN PARIS ANTWERP IN MEMORIAM 219 Unter den Linden, 9 10 Rue Auber 22 Rue des Peignes or U. S. Lines Offices in principal European Cities CLAIMS FOR LOSSES OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS 227 RECESS APPOINTMENTS 228 BALTIMORE MODERN TRIPOLI By Jay Walker 230 Go UP HEAD, GUNGHA, Verse 232 MAIL AMERICA, Verse, by Edwin C. Kemp 240 LINE Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as Baltimore Norfolk London Havre Hamburg second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 185 EVERYWHERE! Never let anyone tell you that there’s any place that and deliver your message with promptness.. .with Postal Telegraph cannot reach. Postal Telegraph dependability.. .with accuracy. Postal Telegraph not only covers 70,000 cities in the United States and not only offers efficient telegraph service within 9,000 in Canada,* but it maintains real commercial the borders of this country but through the Inter¬ telegraph offices, attended by a trained telegraph national System of which it is a part, it offers personnel in cities between which 95 % of all the communication with the entire world through telegraph traffic of the country flows. There is no a combination of telegraph, cable and radio place for which Postal Telegraph will not accept under a single management. * In Canada through the Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraphs T1IE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM To&tal Telegraph Commercial Qll Clmevica Cables Cables tllackay Hadio 186 To Patronize Our cAdvertisers Is to Insure a ‘Bigger and Better 'Journal for Our Service. INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Surety and Trust Company. 217 Atlas Engraving Co 243 Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba 247 Baltimore Mail Line 185 Cathay Hotel—Shanghai — 247 Chase National Bank 225 Continental Hotel—Paris 247 1935 Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest — —. 247 Federal Storage Company 226 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co 188 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company , 221 PHILCO Grace, W. R., and Company. 225 A REAL RADIO Harris and Ewing 240 Hungaria Hotel—Budapest 247 Natural tone from the Broadcasting Studios International Telephone & Telegraph Co.— 186 in your own vicinity or in a far off land, is Kressmann, Ed., & Co., Bordeaux 247 yours by just the turn of the almost magic Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co 218 dial—hear every program at its best with Martinique Hotel 237 Philco. Mayflower Hotel 233 The Philco leadership held throughout the Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 245 years by the combination of the greatest engi¬ neering staff in radio, together with a produc¬ Metropole Hotel—Shanghai 247 tion schedule that gives you the finest in both Middleton, Mrs. Lewis— 218 reception and quality of workmanship at a Munson Steamship Lines 232 minimum cost. National Geographic Magazine 223 There are 55 magnificent models to meet the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co 218 taste of the most discriminating buyer—a New Yorker Hotel H Cover Philco for every purse and purpose. Pagani’s Restaurant—London -—— 247 Every type and size of radio—AC, DC, AC- PalaceAmbassadeurs Hotel—Rome 247 DC, battery and 32 volt. The model 28C Pan-American Airways, Inc. 235 illustrated incorporates the following features: Park Lane Hotel—London 247 Wave range 530 to 1720 kilocycles and 4.13 Philco Radio Company 187 to 13 megacycles—23-73 meters and 175 to Plaza Hotel 227 565 meters. Rockefeller Center III Cover Universal AC, DC, for 110 or 220 volls AC-DC Sapp, Earl W., C.L.U. 218 Pentode Audio-System Savoy-Plaza Hotel 227 Bass Compensation Sea Captains’ Shop—Shanghai 247 Automatic Volume Control Security Storage Company of Washington 217 Three Point Tone Control Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. 229 Full Rubber Floated Chassis Strasbourg, Restaurant Brasserie de—Marseilles 247 6 Philco high-efficiency tubes equal to 8 single Swift & Co., Inc. 239 purpose tubes Tyner, Miss E. J 232 Cabinet 16" wide, 8 94" high and 8*4" deep Underwood Elliott Fisher Company 241 Tune in on Philco programs from Station United Fruit Company 240 EAQ, Madrid, Spain (9.87 on your Philco dial) United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company 237 PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORP. United States Lines 225 Export Department von Zielinski, Carl M. J 237 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover AMERICAN STEEL EXPORT CO. Willard Hotel 235 347 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Woodward and Lothrop 1 — 219 Cable Address: Amsta, New York Wrigley’s Chewing Gum 237 187 WHY FIRESTONE TIRES HAVE MADE OUTSTANDING RECORDS ON Ab Jenkins at Lake Bonneville, Utah, established 77 new World, International and American ROAD AND Records, traveling 3,000 miles at an average speed of 127.2 miles per hour on Firestone Tires TRACK FOR SAFETY, SPEED, MILEAGE AND ENDURANCE W HEN a great bridge is built, engineers know before the last bolt is put in place that it will stand shocks and strains far above any that will ever be required in actual service. Just so, when the Firestone organization set out to build tires to meet the demands of today’s fast-traveling, quick-stopping automobiles, with their smaller wheels and more powerful motors, they built tires far safer For fifteen consecutive years Firestone Tires have been on the winning cars in the gruelling 500-mile than the average car owner will ever need for present day driving. 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