Outward Bound Again

Some 3,000 civilians sailed from Manhattan for Europe last week. The Cunard White Star Line's Queen Mary took out 1,228; the graceful old Aquitania (probably the only four-stacker remaining afloat) carried 483; the Holland-America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam had 500 aboard.

The Pan American Airways' Dixie Clipper took off with a full load of 45 passengers (among them was Boston's millionaire scientist, Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 84, on his 44th Atlantic crossing, his first by air). During the week three of American Export Airlines' Flying Aces, Pan American's Atlantic Clipper and American Clipper zoomed for Europe with all passenger space filled.

All this bustle did not mean that travel for travel's sake was back again. There were no bon voyage parties, no champagne, no baskets of fruit. The big liners, still painted battleship grey, slid quietly through the Narrows. The passengers were "on official business," or were European nationals returning home.

Swamped with passport applications, the State Department issued a warning: travel to Europe will be restricted for some time to come. Specifically the Passport Division said:

P:Travel to Germany, Austria and Italy will be limited to persons on Government business.

P: Businessmen with prewar trade connections may go to Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Rumania if their business is urgent.

P: Travel to France and Holland is discouraged because of the shortage of housing, transport and food in those countries. All travelers were warned that they might not be able to get home from Europe for many months (returning troops will fill all available shipping space).

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