HOME-STAYING AMERICANS
We have hardly' realised yet how complete a barrier the new Neutrality Act in the United States has set up against visits by Americans to this country. Under the Act no American ship may come into (British or French waters and no American citizen may travel by a French or British ship. The Dutch and Belgian lines, which call at British ports, are still available, and Americans who favour the big boats can go to ;Genoa by an Italian line and come on—or back—overland. But as permits to visit any of the belligerent countries are practically unobtainable, the question is largely academic. One exception to the rule that no American may travel by a French or British ship has, I believe, been made, by a kind of tacit agreement to say nothing about it; otherwise Americans in Britain or France could never cross the Channel. (I think there are still other ways, but long, expensive, an'd inconvenient.). — "Janus." in the 'Spectator.'
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Evening Star, Issue 23497, 10 February 1940, Page 3
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163HOME-STAYING AMERICANS Evening Star, Issue 23497, 10 February 1940, Page 3
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