MAGAZINE LIFE CRITICIZED
Demands On Britain (Rec. 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 12. “The editors of the magazine Life have touched off a bitter BritishAmerican controversy over basic United Nations war principles by demanding in an open letter that the British quit fighting the war to hold the Empire because if they cling to the Empire at the expense of the United Nations they will lose,” declares the newspaper P.M., which severely criticized Life. P.M. was unable to reach Henry Luce, publisher of Life, but his wife, Clare Booth Luce, the famous playwright, said: “I ant absolutely certain there was no intention of suggesting a separate peace.”. P.M. asks Mr Luce in an editorial: “Where do you want the British people to cease holding the Empire together? Australia? The Australians have more to say about that than the British and haven’t we a bit at stake out there too? Egypt? Lord knows, Rommel is doing all he can to pull the Empire apart there. The West Coast of Africa? The Vichy French would like that, for then Laval would be able to bargain with the Germans and the Japanese over Madagascar, just as Vichy sold out Indo-China. The west coast of Africa? Remember, Freetown is our side’s closest base to Dakar, which threatens us in the hands of Vichy. Canada? The Canadians, like the Australians, should decide for themselves. We are not defending imperialists or Colonel Blimps, but when Life puts out big nice sounding generalities without being specific it does not help the war effort, either here or abroad, for such statements are apt to be read by people who will accept them without thinking them through—any more than you thought them through as you wrote.”
A London message states that the editors of Life have issued a statement there claiming that all their open letter really demanded was that the British war aims be stated, and that they should be United Nations aims and not merely Empire aims. , “The accusation that we are seeking to drive a wedge between the British and America is false and unrealistic,” it states. /
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Southland Times, Issue 24874, 14 October 1942, Page 5
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