Our Own Trumpet The Prince of Wales has a singular
knack of hitting the right nail squarely on the head. His address to the Travel Association on Wednesday was an admirable example of that. Foreign countries ought to understand, as the Prince was at pains to explain, that we arc not giving up our visits to them because we like them less, but because we have for the moment to keep our money at home. When life is a little easier we shall enlarge our minds and develop our contacts as before. Meanwhile, if we do not go to sec foreigners where they live, let us do all we can (and quite a lot needs doing) to persuade thent to come and see us where we live. These islands are bound to be at a certain disadvantage as a goal of travel, for they are on the way to nowhere, except for Americans visiting Europe. France, Germany, Switzerland can all be taken on the way to somewhere else. Geography is a fairly stubborn fact, and we happen to be set in a corner of Europe. But for that the Romans would have found us sooner than they did. But the attempt to present Britain to the foreigner as an end in itself deserves, and will achieve, success. We must, as the Prince says. tell the world about us.
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