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Perhaps the best way to show you how this difference works is to ask you to imagine for a moment that something very important has just happened in your city-so important that some far-away friends have asked you to tell them briefly just what really did happen...
Among TIME'S regular readers are three bimbashis (majors in the Egyptian army) whose job is to keep peace in the unpeaceful Sudan. In Wales, believe it or not, lives TIME subscriber Mona Lisa-in Howrah, India, Swami Gangeshananda is a subscriber-and in the far-away Fijis TIME is read each week by President John Quincy Adams...
Practically any other week I envy the exciting life of TIME'S correspondents on history-making fronts all around the world-but Christmas is a time when everybody wishes he was home. And this was a strange far-away Christmas for many of our TIME people...
...peoples invariably get on each other's nerves. Business, trade and cultural interests strongly influenced Sweden to the pre-Hitler Germany. Now the Swedes despise the Germans. That leaves only Russia, which the Swedes learned to fear and distrust from their nursery rhymes, and the far-away U.S., where virtually every Swedish family has blood ties...
...human self, has its own unity in a living purpose," cannot reside only in the distant words of philosophers. Such truths and ideals must be the equipment of millions of humble leaders close to the task. Americans are too close to their destiny to rely only on a few far-away leaders. They must find near at hand those who can formulate the causes, interpret principle in definite acts, nourish their spirit by giving them tasks to work on in the direction of their hopes...