AN INTERNATIONAL ROAD
Mention has been made in one of the reports before the League of Nations Assembly of something that even in these dank times might be_ hopefully, symbolic—the great international road, largely, of course, based on existing roads, that is to run straight across Europe from south of the Straits of Dover to Istanbul. I am not sura whether the epic of roads has ever been worthily handled. Roads do far more than railways to make nations acquainted. It is the man who -drives through a' country, seeing the little villages and the scattered farms as well as the crowded towns, who stops to talk as he buys his petrol or takes his luncheon in a country inn, that gains at least some glimmering of an understanding of the nations within whoso borders he finds himself. I do not know whether the international road will bear distinctive marks of its character and its unity. I hope it will. A great white ribbon that regards no national barriers and links the English Channel with the Golden Horn should be known for what it is.—“ Janus,” in the ‘ Spectator.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 3
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189AN INTERNATIONAL ROAD Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 3
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