ENGLAND IGNORES HEARST.

Otaki Mail, 4 August 1922, Page 3

ENGLAND IGNORES HEARST.

AN ICY RECEPTION, William Randolph Hearst, millionaire newspaper owner, of America, received the shock of liis life in the icy coldness of the reception he received during his stay here in June (writes a London correspondent). He displayed unusual reticence, posing as a man who hates Press interviews, and, apart from the obviously carefully prepared and written statement which he gave out soon after landing, and which masquerades as an interview, he has laid low since his arrival. It is probable that never before in the history of British journalism, which lias long traditions of hospitality, has any visiting newspapermen been treated with such lm k of confidence and import dislike from his confreres. One j|i,. London papers suggests that Hearst’s experience with victims of his own largely failed interviews have mode him afraid to open his mouth. British publisbeis as a whole are absolulelv ignoring him. and it is learned :hev have no intent ion of extending the usual hospitality shown to American newspapermen. Only the Morning Fust and Slxndaid take tin- trouble to notice him.

“It is surprising,” says the Morning i'ost. “that Hearst should honour this country with a visit. This is the mail whose newspapers have nev»-r lost a chance of assailing England, and who flung aside all scruples to wreck the Washington < ''inference. ’ ’ Sir John Foster Fraser, in an open letter to the standard, says: “During itie war (In ' anadiun people read your article-, d-•faming England, and s„ re seated tlf libel- you published that the Ottawa Government prohibited vnur journals entering the Dominion. You will remember. Mr Hearst, that •ho British (biverniuent gave your rcmesent at' \ c facilities for news service, but that wlien thi: news reached votir office it vn - at'i-ic:| suit your uo”x

You wont out of your way to insult tin* Earl of Balfour. You will be delighted at the interest which Englishmen arc .showing in your visit.*’ Hearst Y welcome was probably the iciest of any prominent man since the Avar: even Turk*. Germans, ami Bolsheviks have been better received.