Where the News is True Today more than at any
other time is a tour abroad an essential thing, not necessarily at the sacrifice of exploring one's own country but, if you like, as an additional means of learning about the things that matter. If you drive through the countries about which you have been reading all kinds of tendentious stuff in the papers, you will within a day or two get a far closer knowledge of the people about whom these things are being said than if you had gone by train. You will see how they live and what they talk about, and under- stand how closely one set of human beings resembles another, in what infinitesimal degree their hopes and views on life differ. There never was a cliché truer than that travelling broadens the mind and there never was a time when that travelling was more necessary than today.
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