[From our SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
WE POOR expatriates are sitting here watching the American Dollar play football with the poor old franc and heartily convinced that you are right to stay in America. The place of every good American is in his country. Meanwhile we are drinking good red wine at about onefourth of the price of the terrible hooch that you have to stand for and like it. In addition we have a lovely Exposition which as taxpayers we shall have to stand for later on. The sun is out and the food is good and it is only four hours' drive to the seashore and since the new labor laws, the bankers get Saturday off. We are the wastrels. It is men like you that are carrying the torch of civilization and are the leaders of the future. You are all big shots—rich, prominent, and successful. You have stocks and bonds and are worried about what they are going to do. We have nothing left but a smile and hence don't worry any more. You are swell guys. To Hell with you.
Many pleasant visitors come along to brighten up our drab lives and remind us of our general worthlessness. Cotty Larmon 'l9, Professor Larmon to you, visited us at the time of the Dartmouth Track Meet and spent a pleasant evening "en ville." Niel Sheldon 'lB, president of the Rotary of Schenectady and a big Feed and Fuel Baron, also called blocking out the Arc de Triomphe with his willowy silhouette. Don Bliss 'lB is here at the Consulate in the Commercial Attaches department and invited me to lunch with my wife recently. We both called on Mr. Tuck recently and found him getting ready to go into his 95th birthday on all high with eight cylinders sparking. Professor Dave Lambuth was over here last year. Dewey Duhamel 'l7, our old half back a few years ago and now working for St. Gobain, had dinner with Hort Kennedy and me when he was last here and looked just about the same.
Ted Marriner 'l4 has been transferred to Syria as Consul General. Kippy Tuck 'l3 is leaving for Brussels also as Counselor of the Embassy which is a big job in the service. Harvey Hood's nephews and nieces called on me recently and I pulled a ceremonious face and said "And how is Uncle Harvey?" How's that one for a laugh?