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SOME IMPRESSION

Washington is perhaps the most agreeable city in the United States and certainly one of the most beautiful. It has fine buildings, first-rate shops, good restaurants, at- tractive parks, and there are trees everywhere.

the population is largely composed of civil servants and other people em- ployed by or connected with the Gov- ernment in some way, professional men, and people in retirement or with independent means who have been at tracted by the prestige of a capital. There are also, of course, the sena- tors and members of the House of Representatives and their families and the Diplomatic Corps. Many people whose occupations are in Washingtor live in Virginia, on the other side of the Potomac, in such places as Alex- andria, Arlington, and Fairfax, which are for all practical purposes suburbs of Washington. In the United States people think nothing twenty miles or more to and from their offices every day, and are quite ready to go home to dinner and go back into town in the evening to a theatre or some other place of enter

of driving

By

Robert Dell

large crowd of girl the railings of the Mr. Eden was visiti He had as much su star. Although it w speech at the Inf: Club in Washington reported, and he ha tunity of speaking" from some of those

was the American

Mr

Its social life is comparable to that questions with a joke was admirable. luncheon that it cons of any other capital. It is essentially One of the most interesting conversa vague generalities as what house agents call "residential.”.

tions that I had in Washington was in New York. There are hardly any factories, and

popularity in the Un with one of the highest officials of belief that he is one the State Department, whose complete frankness even on delicate questions opponents of Mr. C licy. Since his visi of international relations was a flat-

States people have tering proof of confidence-it is true

that. that he has known me for some years.

New Orleans, I cof One of the last things that he

said was "Whatever people may say of the ed too much. One

appointed me. Perh President, he is a great man." He. much about the be is indeed. In my opinion he is head and the gaiety of Ne and shoulders above any other ruler one is inclined to ex or Prime Minister in the world.

The President and the State De- wished to visit, and partment are undoubtedly thoroughly have visited it, for on the international New well informed

Orleans worth situation. I can answer for that, so have no particular d far as the State Department is con- again, whereas I sh cerned. Many people in the United glad to return to Sop States say that British influence is The description of Ne to lift the embargo on Spain is attri- leans is not in the l too strong at Washington. The failure "American Paris" is buted partly to British influence, al- any way, nor though the strength of the Roman town Catholic vote in the United States is French quarter, the Whereas New York is the easiest lics were almost unanimously on the of France, and there undoubtedly a factor. American Catho- much more reminisce place in which to find one's way about side of Franco. I must add that Mr. that recalls Paris. that I know, Washington is one of the Chamberlain is extremely unpopular most difficult. Even the Washington in the United States. Since I came Orleans the "Americ Probably those wh is one of the most difficult. Even the to the United States I have met ex- fied Paris with Washington cab-drivers often cannot actly one American favourable to the Anglo-Saxon music- find their way. The man who drove Munich Agreement, and I have talk- "gay Paree." me from the station to the friend's ed to all sorts of people, especially on Orleans to Paris be

They house where I was going to stay drove the train during my long railway reputation of being backwards and forwards for nearly journeys. No doubt there are three-quarters of an hour before he American supporters of Mr. Cham- it has a great deal of other to eat, drink, and b succeeded in finding Waterside Drive. berlain's policy, but they are a small because of the wild It was his funeral, not mine,

for minority. there are no taximeters in Washing-

goes on at New Orle Mr. Eden came to Washington while am toid) during the ton: the system is one of zones, and I was there and had an excellent re- and on mardi gras. the fares are low. I felt compelled to ception, especially from the feminine and mardi gras h give the unfortunate driver an extra part of the population. tip, although perhaps he did not de- visited the State Department all

When he disappeared in Paris serve it, for his pride prevented him stenographers were assembled in

the life" in New Orléa from asking the way until he became hall to see him go by, and I saw

the least like that of desperate.

an American expert]

tainment.

Washington people are hospitable, friendly, and charming to strangers, bút, so far as my experience goes, that is true of Americans everywhere. In Washington I had two cars put at my disposal and was driven about everywhere alternately by two charm- ing young ladies. One of them insist- ed on fetching me late in the evening. from à place sixteen miles outside Washington where I had been dining. This sort of thing is, I think, really peculiar to the United States.

The President - returned to Wash- ington while I was there, and I had a glimpse of him at one of his press conferences to which I was taken by an official of the State Department. He sat behind a table and all the journalists stood on the other side of it. The President and the journalists were on terms of complete familiar- ity. Mr. Roosevelt has a remarkably expressive face, full of intelligence, and I soon saw how clever he is. The way in which he evaded inconvenient

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INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING

Bringing Up Father

WHERE'S THE

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