Africa news letter, Vol. I, No. 1, March 31, 1942

              An Informal Publication Issued Occasionally to Families and Friends of Employees of Pan American Airways - Africa, Ltd,, Chrysler Building, New York City
INTRODUCING OURSELVES
This is the.first issue of a now-and-then publication wo hope to get off to you, highlighting intimately activities of our personnel in Africa - military aspects of which, we know you will appreciate, cannot be discussed. But we think you are more interested anyway in their personal doings and shall attempt to gather such information and relay it to you periodically. We don’t guarantee the frequency of this bulletin, but as often as there is something really worthwhile to relate, you shall have it.
By the way, if your address as used on this particular cover is incorrect please inform us immediately - re shall appreciate also your notifying us of any subsequent change of address for our mailing list. Such communications should be forwarded to the attention of Miss Leary, Pan American Airways - Africa, Ltd., Room 4408, Chrysler Building, New York.
WARNING
AFRICA NEWS LETTER is for private consumption only. No part of it should be published either verbally or in print. And speaking of secrecy, the government particularly cautions you not to divulge the name of any point where our men are based - just say your son or husband is ”in Africa.”
NEW HORIZONS
The Pan American Airways System monthly magazine, NEW HORIZONS, devotes its current issue to PAA-Africa, and we think you will enjoy it. .In every NEW HORIZONS, however, comments and news items on Africa appear, and you may care to avail yourself of the subscription blank enclosed. But regardless of whether you subscribe to NEW HORIZONS, the AFRICA NEWS LETTER will be sent to you.
COMMUNICATING WITH AFRICA
Realizing the uneasiness and misgivings which have arisen from the delay in mails between Africa and the United States, our company last month approached the government agencies which control the flow of mail to and from overseas points about a special arrangement providing rapid transit of letters between this country and our employees abroad.
Since handling and delivery of mail are not within our jurisdiction, we appealed to the postal authorities and censors from the position of a third party, explaining our anxiety to see that letters did net bog down for days and weeks at intermediate censoring points.
They responded with gratifying cooperation and iimmediate action, and almost at once we were able to begin a new service featuring airmail - which sometimes carries letters from families in the United States to relatives in Africa within seven days.
This service, which we reported to you in a special memorandum of February 5, provides that mail could be sent from any post office in the United States with 50 cents in stamps for each half-ounce of weight, addressed as follows:
Mr. (name of employee)
Pan American Airways - Africa, Ltd.
Room 4403 - Chrysler Building
New York	Please Forward
Upon receipt of such letters in New York City (which is within twenty-four hours of any point in the United States by airmail), our special courier speeds them through censorship and postal formalities and they go aboard the next Clipper Africa-bound with airmail. On arrival of the Clipper mail in Africa our representatives see that,
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