ADVICE FOR U.S. TRAVELLERS
SUBJECTS AND PHRASES TO AVOID LONDON, March 23. American overseas airlines, have issued a handbook entitled “Happy Landings” which, will he distributed among all passengers bound for Europe, 11 advises American, tourists when I hey arrive in Britain or Liirope not to boast about big buildings at home. “We have no monopoly of the good ihings of life,” it says, “and as far as wo know the world was all created about the same time.” This last is a reference to the tendency of Americans to refer to the Lnited States as “God’s Own Country.” Further advice given: in the handbook is “Never say ‘How much is this in real money?’ The other fellows’ money, though it may be depreciated, is just as real to him as yours is to you.
“Say farewell to gorgeous ties and see tlilit your dress conforms with that of those' around you. Don’t make cr.mks about the coffee.” The booklet suggests that American visitors to Britain should bring soap, saccharin tablets, coffee, spare buttrme. -inf! sewing and darning materials with them.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 139, 24 March 1948, Page 5
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