The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-28
European Travel After the War

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 The return of peace will not moan the resumption of international travel in the same volume in which it flowed from country to country. Internation- al travel or the touris ttrade. had de- veloped into one of the important branches of the worlds trade It is trade that is of especial consequence to passenger steamship lines, railways, hotels, shops of many classes and the automobile service. Hundreds or mil lions of dollars change hands annu- ally on account of the tourist trade and better international acquaintance has resulted. It is impossible to com pute the influence which International travel has on the sale of goods, but 1t Is said by persons who have given thought to that aspect of the matter than it Is considerable.
 The European war has engendered interna ional hates and furies, and 1t has Teen the record of history that such sentiments long survive after the close of actual hostilities. And in this war, because of the unparalleled extent and intensity and the new and hitherto unthought of agencies employed, i'm ternational bitterness is unusually deep and may be lasting to an unusual degree. The citizens of the countries of the Teutonic allies will not travel very much in the countries of tho en- tente allies, nor will British, French, Russians and Italians travel much in Germany and Austria. Outside of na- tional and sacial antiquities revived and engendel>l by the war, there will be less moneN in the pockets of the people of the warning nations which they will be free to spend in travel.
 Earnst Lissauers Hymn of Hate" which. it is claimed, has been taught in the public schools of Germany, cou- pied with the slaughter of noncom- batants of all the countries by areiaf attacks and the unprecedented destruc- tion of private property on land and at sea. have aroused passions that win probably be longer in cooling than has been usual with the passions of war
 It has been reported that Dr. Dern- burg is inviting Germans to sign . pledge binding them to abstain fro0 Italian travel for five years after tho war. This is one of the signs. German and Austrian travellers have not been exceedingly popular in Italy. and after the war it is said that in al Likelihood they will be more unpopular.
 A writer on this subject has said that suspicion. rancor and abh0rred memories will leave the world two Europes. the one detesting the other. inevitably 1t will mean a narrowing of culture; it will limit the study of languages. it will hamper the study of art: it will be distinct detriment to the ross-fertilization that has so greatly benefited music. At the same time it will tend to deepen old preju- dices and foster new ones, as there is no spring of international dislike moro fertile than international misinterpre- tation growing out of international un- acauaintedness."
 There is not one aspect of the case which is not being overlooked by students of travel. It is certain that flood tide of American tourist travel will set toward Europe at the end of hostilities. Reports of tourist agencies show that this will be the case. The battlefelds and shell wrecked cttiea and war-blighted villages will he an appealing spectacle that will beckon tens of thousands of Americans to Eu- rope.