When Mrs. Roosevelt stepped from her plane in Lebanon, she said simply: "I have come to learn." And it was her humility and charm, her eagerness to learn, which won the confidence of the Eastern people. That is why, traveling with her as we do in this book, we see not only the problems of the East, but the thrilling challenge, heroic purpose and inspiring triumphs. Through her eyes we can judge truly the hopes for democracy in the East. And we can guess how her own journey must have buttressed those hopes in nations where the power of personal example far outweighs the most eloquent political promises.