Praise

U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton has been accredited to Germany for about three years and in all that time he has allegedly never made a speech. But, during the past week, he broke precedent, delivered an oration at a dinner given by the American Luncheon Club of Berlin in honor of Baron von Maltzan, new German Ambassador to the U. S. in succession to

Dr. Wiedfeldt, retiring to look after the firm of Krupps.

After painting a dark picture of Germany's immediate past and a rosy canvas of her future, Mr. Houghton, soon to be U.S. Ambassador to Britain (where he will not be allowed to remain silent), proposed a toast to Baron von Maltzan whom he described as "always calm, always steady, with an unshaken belief in Germany's future and with an eager desire to rebuild her relations with America on a lasting basis of peace."