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Banquet. German newspapers, the morning after the "international evening," proclaimed it a "gastronomic record." Two hundred and fifty calves, 35,000 crabs, 4,000 bottles of wine were consumed by 2,500 diners. "50% of the wine," said one newspaper, "was drunk by the American delegates." What with the veal, the wine and the bad acoustics of the Wintergarten's mammoth restaurant, the evening's speeches were no huge success. Several U. S. delegates who had quaffed a few sidels of beer before the banquet began clapped their hands when foreign delegates spoke too long, cheered them when they were finished, impatiently waited for the dancing to commence. Twice Toastmaster Hans Luther, onetime German Chancellor, sharply rapped for order, pleaded in three languages: "We can't have a successful evening unless you are quiet." The palm-clapping continued as U. S. Ambassador Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman rose to speak. All during his talk on the diplomatic relation of advertising the noise and clatter continued. Quiet was only restored when the saturnine, sarcastic Earl of Birkenhead, onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, onetime Secretary of State for India, was introduced. Title-respecters, the delegates listened while he talked frankly on European-U. S. relations. Said he: "Europe, with all due regard for what America has done for us . . . must win its fortune by its own force. We in Europe must free ourselves from illusions in connection with the United States. Our guests from abroad will value European co-operation more if they realize that Europe does not lean on them, but that we rely on ourselves."
*For a champion church advertisement, the New York Advertising Club last week awarded a prize of $1,000.