Mr Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who hns said (among other things) that the average man has a better chance seeing the North Pole than his own backbone, arrived at New York in January on the Kniserin Auguste Vie toria to see the United States.. He was accompanied by his (conipa;atively diminutive) artist wife and a lot of bags and luggage. Huge, pink, kindly, ami apparently a bit confused and wondering, Mr Chesterton looked through his straight-barred glasses on, the new land. He had come, he said, "because it seems absurd for a civilised man to go to _ his grave without ever having seen America. I have seen Jerusalem, and, when I have seen Chicago I think I can live contentedly in Beaconsfield."
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17105, 29 March 1921, Page 7
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