Produced by Al Haines
EUROPE—WHITHER BOUND?
(Quo Vadis Europa?)
Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
BY
STEPHEN GRAHAM
THE RYERSON PRESS
TORONTO
1922
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PREFATORY NOTE
The Author's gratitude is due to many people in connexion with thisbook—to Bishop Nicholas of Zicca and the Rev. Hugh Chapman, of theSavoy, and Col. Treloar and Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, and theEditor of the "Narodny Listi," at Prague, and Mr. Hyka,—to these andmany others who helped a traveller on his way.
The letters from each capital were published in "Country Life" underthe general title of Quo Vadis Europa? A few after-thoughts have nowbeen written on "Extra Leaves," and sewn in between these letters.
No effort at an exhaustive study of any country is made here. Theobject of the author was to make a rapid tour from capital to capital,"keeping the taxi waiting," so to say, and thus obtain an idea ofEurope as a whole. It is perhaps one of the first books of travelwritten from the point of view of Europe as a unity, and it is hoped itwill help to make us all good Europeans.
CONTENTS
LETTERS OF TRAVEL
I. FROM ATHENS
EXTRA LEAVES
(i) On Passports and "Circulation"
II. FROM CONSTANTINOPLE (I) III. FROM CONSTANTINOPLE (II)
EXTRA LEAVES
(ii) On "Charity" and the Stagnation of Peoples
IV. FROM SOFIA V. FROM BELGRADE (I) VI. FROM BELGRADE (II) VII. FROM BUDAPEST VIII. FROM VIENNA
EXTRA LEAVES
(iii) On Money and League of Nations Currency
IX. FROM PRAGUE X. FROM WARSAW
EXTRA LEAVES
(iv) On Nationality and an Armistice Baby
XI. FROM MUNICH XII. FROM BERLIN (I) XIII. FROM BERLIN (II)
EXTRA LEAVES
(v) On "Clay Sparrows" and the Failure of Freedom
XIV. FROM ROME XV. FROM MONTE CARLO XVI. FROM LONDON XVII. FROM PARIS
EUROPE—WHITHER BOUND?
LETTERS OF TRAVEL
I. FROM ATHENS
Europe, whither goest thou?—the poignant question of to-day. Thepride of Christian culture, the greatest human achievement in history,with, as we thought before 1914, the seal of immortality set upon her,is now perhaps moving towards dissolution and death. Europe has beguna rapid decline, though no one dares to think that she will continue init downward until she reaches the chaos and misery and barbarity fromwhich she sprang. Affairs will presently take a turn for the better,Europe will recover her balance and resume the road of progress whichshe left seven years ago—prompts Hope.
"Europe must die in order to be re-born as something better"; "all mustbe destroyed," say the