I left L.A. on Sunday May 5 and flew to Washington, D. C. where I was met by Deanna 20-Q-1 FPE and her very nice, type-A wife and taken to the hotel and a late evening visit. Monday I "did" one of the Smithsonian museums and also the Passport Dept. of the State Dept. Here I accomplished something that has been bugging me for a long time, namely arranging for a passport so I can go to England and Scandinavia next year and visit the girls there. I just told the desk girl that I had an unusual problem and wanted to speak to one of the higher ups and not go through a lot of clerks. She said I'd have to tell her the nature of the problem so she would know who to refer me to. I leaned over the desk and quietly said, "I'm a male.” She scarcely batted an eye but said, “I see; excuse me for a moment," and she went into an adjoining office. Returning in a few minutes she told me that she had told her boss who in turn had called a Mr. Rando of the Legal Dept. and I was sent up there. He turned out to be a very nice and knowledgeable man having been to Johns Hopkins to find out the score on the TSs that apply for passports. He told me that I could get a passport in my real male name with an "AKA" (meaning 'Also known as') Virginia Bruce and that I could have Virginia's picture on the passport. That together with visas from the local consulates should do it nicely, so start getting ready in Europe girls. I'll be there.

Monday nite we had an informal get together in my hotel room of the girls in the area and laid plans for the first meeting of the chapter which has since been held so the Washington - Baltimore - Maryland Virginia group is launched and any FPE members in the area who want to become part of it can write to Linda Jean 20-B-1 FPE thru Contact and make arrangements. Looks like it will be a fine group with a number of real great wives as part of it.

Tuesday I devoted to sightseeing by taking one of the tours. I got acquainted with one of the other single ladies and we went to all the various buildings together, sat together, had lunch together,

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