ATTACK ON AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1922, Page 5

ATTACK ON AMERICA.

KIPLING’S BITTER WORDS. SENSATION IN STATES. WAR PART BELITTLED. By Telegraph.—Prcss Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 12, 10.45 p.m. New York, Sept. 11. A sensation been caused by the .publication in the World of an interview with Rudyard Kipling by Clare Sheridan, the sculptress, the World’s European correspondent, in which Kipling is represented as bitterly attacking the United States. He said: ‘"They have the gold of the world, but we have saved our souls. Not one of us who has lost a son would change with them for their prosperity. The United States ceased to be a nation after the civil war. They came into the war two years too late, and liastened an armistice when the Allies were about to gain complete victory over the enemy.” Senators and various generals, including General Pershing, and members of President Harding’s Cabinet, have expressed resentment against Kipling’s statement. The newspapers editorially condemn the novelist’s political activity. They point to the United States’ sacrifice for victory and lament an attack upon Anglo-American friendship, which is the bulwark of civilisation. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.