An unpretentious dinner of about two dozen British working men, held the other evening in a Paris ce-operative restaurant, has helped to draw attention to a new organization which seems likely in course of time to have powerful influence on international relations, and especially those between England and France.
A couple of years ago it occurred to two or three men interested in social questions that, if the British workman could be induced to travel on the. Continent, his views on many economic and political problems would be very considerably widened, and many of the misunderstandings which lie at the root of nearly all international bickerings and wars would be removed. It was thought that many workers would be only too glad of opportunities to escape from Blackpool and Scarborough and such well-worn haunts, provided of course that the cost was not too great. It was accordingly decided to apply ce-operative principles to foreign tours, and the Workers' Travel Association was formed.
In 1922, its first year, it took 900 tourists to Paris and Berlin.
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