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two countries. Telephone connection between the cities of the United 

 States and Mexico was not made until 1927, due to the unsettled 

 political conditions which obtained for some years in Mexico. 



The many close commercial, political and social relations between 

 the peoples of Europe and America have naturally drawn the attention 

 of telephone men for many years to the possibility of establishing 



Fig. 53. 



telephone communication between these two continents. It was a 

 great satisfaction, therefore, to be able to inaugurate such a service 

 in 1927. The transatlantic telephone circuits already connect over 

 20,000,000 telephone stations in North America to over 7,000,000 

 telephone stations in Europe, thus joining together over 85 per cent 

 of the total telephone stations of the world. 



In somewhat more detail, the present status of the connections 

 of the United States telephone system to the telephone systems of 

 other countries is as follows: 

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