Journey of an American
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A highly personal account by a New York Times foreign correspondent on restlessness of modern mankind
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When the Great Depression hit and jobs were scarce, there was no point in hanging around at home.
“Prices in Europe were down to rock bottom,” wrote Albion Ross of his first overseas trip in 1930. “In addition, Mussolini’s government, for some inscrutable Fascist reason, was offering students a fantastic third-class railway ticket that took you from the Channel ports round and about through France and Italy for next to nothing.”
He found a spot in Berlin with the New York Evening Post and later The New York Times. Apart from a stint in the military during the war,…
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