McDonald

In May 1944 appellant, a corporation citizen of the Republic of Venezuela, to whom we shall hereafter refer as 1 the ■ Company, was building a refinery on Bah-rein Island in the Persian Gulf. Appelleé, a citizen of California, who was previously under a temporary employment agreement executed in California with Bechtel-Mc-Cone Corporation (which was engaging employees in the United States to work for the Company), arrived on Bahrein Island on May 28, 1944, and there entered into a permanent written employment agreement with the Company. In this agreement ap-pellee agreed to work for the Company for 18 months as a boilermaker at a salary of $450 per month. In clause 6 of the contract appellee agreed:

“To comply with and abide -by all general regulations and instructions from time to time issued by Company, * * * including those governing hours and conditions of work, and to obey all lawful orders given by the Company, its manager, or other duly authorized person or persons.”

Clause 9 of the contract provided that the Company might terminate appellee’s service at any time without notice on payment of thirty days salary, and Clause 10 permitted the Company to terminate ap-pellee’s…