SOS TO AMERICA
THE ROYAL VISIT
HEARST WRITER'S ARTICLE
(Received^ December 5, 9 a.m.)
Nl^W YORK, December 3.
The Hearst Press gives prominehce today to an article on the "Decline and fall of tihe British Empire," in which their Majesties' visit to America is described as "a Royal SOS to the United States."
Karl yon Wiegand, Hearst's chief foreign corespondent, comments: "Strange and. ironic as it will appear, the fate of Britain of George VI in no small measure may lie in the hands of tfcie one-time American colonies of Gerorge 111, who hired German legions to fight George Washington. Her weaknesses being manifold, Britain is tunning to America, and the visit of King Gieorge and Queen Elizabeth is the big:gest and most dramatic SOS to America that England could possibly make»."
The writer makes charges of incredible complacency, inertia, or incompetence in high places in England, and says that the British Commonwealth is a Iqose-jointed democracy where each foe>t and each hand goes its own happy way. The outstanding weakness is London's inability to command Australia and other Dominions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 9
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180SOS TO AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 9
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