BITTER ANGLOPHOBE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1938, Page 7

BITTER ANGLOPHOBE

MR HEARST ON ENGLAND. The latest outburst of the Hearst Press in the United States concerning the British Empire recalls Mr W. R. Hearst’s nation-wide broadcast a few weeks ago when he replied to the broadcast made to America by Mr Winston Churchill. Mr Hearst said:— “England is in a disturbed state of mind over the consequences of the Czechoslovakian situation. England wants peace, but the Versailles Treaty was not a peace treaty. England is now afraid that the domination which she and France have exercised over Europe since the execution of the Versailles Treaty will be jeopardised. She needs help. And where should she turn for help except to good old Uncle Sam, so sought after when he is needed, so scoffed at and scorned in all intervening times? English propaganda is again flooding thio United States; English soft soap is again being poured over Uncle Sam’s devoted head." Referring to Mr Churchill’s suggestion regarding the joint duty of the English-speaking peoples, Mr Hearst declared:—“lt is no part of the duty of this English-speak-ing nation, the United States of America, to support the British Empire in her ambitious schemes to dominate Europe, absorb Africa, and control the Orient.” Mr Hearst agreed with Mr Churchill’s statement that all the world wants peace and security. But “if England only wants peace to prepare for war, she has gained that by the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia, but she has certainly not gained the abiding faith of the rest of the world in her ‘faithful and zealous comradeship.' America must not succumb to the purely selfish propaganda of foreign nations. America must not be drawn by sentiment into the disasters of another foreign war.”