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Discusses that the American tourist in Europe and like the European immigrant to the U.S. is assuming the status of an international question. Economic and cultural advantages of encouraging immigrants from Europe to the U.S.; Attitude of the mass of people who are compelled to witness and put up with an incursion of foreign faces, language, behavior, interests; Assessment of the status of the American tourist like that of the European immigrant; Opinion that an American in Europe is almost as privileged a person as a European in China; Argument pertaining to the incidents of xenophobia directed toward American tourists.

The article focuses on the different impacts of the global inflation. It notes that rising prices and low wages and profits have greatly affected Americans and have reduced the living standards in the country, and argues that such inflation would result to the weakening confidence in the democratic governments around the world. In addition, it notes that European countries, the U.S. and Asian nations have attempted to address the worldwide inflation by implementing wage-price controls and other tax and monetary tinkering, however, these efforts have been proven to be unsuccessful.

The article presents an overview of the January 9, 1943 issue of "The Nation." Americans aren't narrow-minded. In peace times, you won't find anybody more ready to admit that foreigners are perfectly alright. Why, Americans like foreigners in Europe and Mexico and such places. They don't talk our language and their money doesn't do you much good, but when you're in those countries you take It like you do the scenery-it's just something different. Americans maybe joke about Europe being full of foreigners, but they don't mean anything by it. We all had to come from somewhere, didn't we?

The American visitor to Berlin who casts a first casual glance over the theatrical columns of a daily newspaper is likely to get the impression, not that he has traveled some four thousand miles from home, but that Broadway has suddenly begun to speak German for the majority of the pieces there advertised are already familiar to him. Deutsehes Theater, Broadway and Theater in Admirspalast have not even taken the trouble to disguise themselves under new names. At the moment new German plays unknown to the American stage are extremely few, and it is, indeed, to America herself more than to any other country that the German managers are looking for material. The American who was accustomed, up to a few years ago, to find Europe stubbornly indifferent to all forms of American art, except, perhaps, the movies, experiences in Berlin a natural resurgence of pride when he hears American plays so eagerly inquired after, but this pride is soon given pause when he realizes that it is by no means the works most esteemed at home which are most sought after here.