The Hemisphere: Unwelcome Guest

Four passengers off a Trans-Canada Air Lines' flight from London lined up at the room-clerk's window in Montreal's fashionable Windsor Hotel. The first three quickly got rooms. But when the fourth man, a Negro, stepped forward, the room clerk began to fumble with the registry cards and to complain that the airline had mixed up the reservations. He did not say that he had no rooms, but he finally handed the Negro a slip of paper with the address of a cheaper hotel and told him to go there.

The Negro went to the other hotel without a protest, but he had...

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