We have brought almost 200 foreign press to America in the last couple of years. but they have not been able to penetrate the country as deeply as they shouldand we have all lost thereby. X.et us assume that through your efforts or ours. we have our prospective tourist on the brink of a decision to come to America. While the U.S passport office has streamlined visa processing. there are still a good many Scandinavians who live at some distance from a U.S. consulate and for whom the business of getting an American tourist visa is time consuming and possibly quite unnecessary. Some of them may also find it somewhat repugnant to provide even pro forma assurance that they are neither drug addicts. nor criminals. nor seeking to overthrow the Government of the United States. There are. of course. reasons for these questions. but the amount of protection they give you is questionable. Any one with sinister designs will not be stopped at a few convenient lies. And mean while. for the more than 99.99 percent of the traffic. the whole process is a denial of the smilingwelcome which you hold out to the foreign tourist. The United States has persuaded a godd many foreign countries to drop their visa requirements for Americans. You have a very good reason now to pay some of these countries the compliment of doing the same for them. I have already inferred that the United States offers the tourist a travel experience second to none in the world.