'The American newspaper often consists of as much as half a column devoted to international affairs, an immense auto section, a financial section, a movie section, a society section showing Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West in sepia attending each other's weddings, and a scandal section describing the deliciously immoral practices of minor European princelings whom no-one has ever heard of before. These scandal supplements inspire and excuse such opinions as that with which one of my pupils in a California university once began his essay: All foreigners labour under crowned heads in dirt and immor[t]ality.'
from The States - II, a piece in The Little World by Stella Benson
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