Travel Is Compost For The Mind

Americans Did Not Acquire Their Fear Neurosis As The Result Of A Traumatic Experience - War Devasting Their Country, Pestilence Sweeping The Land, Famine Wiping Out Helpless Millions. Americans Had To Be Taught To Hate And Fear An Unseen Enemy. The Teachers Were Men In Official Positions, In Government, Men Whom Americans Normally Trust Without Question.

Dachau Has Been My Own Lifelong Point Of No Return. Between The Moment When I Walked Through The Gate Of That Prison, With Its Infamous Motto, 'arbeit Macht Frei,' And When I Walked Out At The End Of A Day That Had No Ordinary Scale Of Hours, I Was Changed, And How I Looked At The Human Condition, The World We Live In, Changed ... Years Of War Had Taught Me A Great Deal, But War Was Nothing Like Dachau. Compared To Dachau, War Was Clean.

What The Trees Can Do Handsomely-greening And Flowering, Fading And Then The Falling Of Leaves-human Beings Cannot Do With Dignity, Let Alone Without Pain.

In The End, In England, When You Want To Find Out How People Are Feeling, You Always Go To The Pubs.

After The Desperate Years Of Their Own War, After Six Years Of Repression Inside Spain And Six Years Of Horror In Exile, These People Remain Intact In Spirit. They Are Armed With A Transcendent Faith; They Have Never Won, And Yet They Have Never Accepted Defeat.