Published in Detective Comics #34, December, 1939, 6 pages.
As he and another man climb the stairs to the U.S. Intelligence Bureau, both are nearly annihilated by machine gun file from a passing car. The other man turns out to be the Ambassador from the nation of Bolaria, a small European country friendly to the U.S. but threatened by its neighbor, Luxor. Someone is determined to stop the talks to get armaments sent to Bolaria.