Back in Indiana

How near one to the other is every part of the world. Modern inventions have brought into close relation widely separated peoples. Geographic and political divisions will continue to exist, but distances have been effaced. . . . Isolation is no longer possible or desirable. . . . The period of exclusiveness is past.

"You might think I am quoting from one of my own speeches," said Wendell Willkie last week, reading this little homily at a Republican dinner in his home State of Indiana. He was not; he had just done a little historical sleuthing. The quotation was 41...

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