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have passed, in their decline, un-- der the control of men who are ready to cast aside traditions and honour for the sake of peace at any price. A large section of the American and Canadian pub- lic is ready-almost credulously ready-to accept the worst con- struction that can be put Munich, on Mr. Chamberlain's re- lations with the dictators, and
on
on
the motives of the "ap peasers," the so-called "Hitler's Fifth Column." One may add, too, the suspicion, fed by such in- stances as the Stanhope affair, that the British people is kept in blinkers and is not allowed by its rulers to know the truth. This- critical and sceptical attitude is not the monopoly of the isola- tionists, to whom any means of exhibiting the undesirableness of Europe is welcome; it is also taken up, but with distress, by-
of A Conservative member "yen- much of that great mass tured to say recently that the opinion that feels itself aligned great majority of the people of inevitably, in face of the menace Britain were in favour of a pact of the law-breaking aggressors, of mutual assistance with the on the side of the threatened de- Soviet Union. The Prime Minis-mocracies.
BRITAIN ABROAD.
ter loftily retorted that the peo- It is easy, of course, to retort ple had had no opportunity of ex- that because American jour-
is pressing an opinion, and he did
nalism
alive and "on not know what authority Mr.
the 'spot" it is not. Boothby could have for his state-
necessarily always accurate. Some ment. Yet Mr. Boothby had just of the most damaging legends→→→→
authori- as much - even more
such as those that attribute the ty than the Government has for policy of British Ministers to assuming that the country is in their supposed shareholdings in favour of the Conscription Bill, armament firms-are based on on which also it has not been con- demonstrably incorrect facts;. sulted. Mr. Boothby, of course, there are much simpler explana- was right. Apart from an ex- tions than those that suffice in tremely small section, the opinion the case of some American of the country is that a European domestic political scandals. But. Peace Front without Russia is no although the baser economic mo- real front at all, and that great tives can be ruled out it is well to efforts should be made, if she is remember that an episode like the willing and ready to assume Dusseldorf agreement of the Fe- adequate responsibilities, to get deration of British Industries has her in. It is unkind, of course, had an extremely bad effect and is. of the Opposition to keep badger- still looked on as a backstairs at- ing Mr. Chamberlain about the tempt to under-cut the United. long delay in fixing anything up States. This was not the inten- with Russia, but it is not, as he tion, but can the Americans be tried rather peevishly to make blamed for the gloss they put on out the other day, merely "par- it? The American journalist tisan." Had he been rather more has always excelled in skill in! skiful as a diplomatist. he would "putting two and two together" have welcomed this sign of po- (often to make six), and while pular interest, for, whether it be the process compels reluctant ad- true at the moment or not, one of miration it also brings its trials.. the reasons for the "stickiness" In the last few weeks, for instan- of the discussions with Russia ce, readers in all parts of the has been Moscow's distrust of United States and Canada have Mr. Chamberlain's intentions. been reading the same syndicated' And if it should unfortunately article (one by those entertain prove now, since Mr. Litvinoff's ing columnists Drew Pearson and going, that Russian policy has Robert S. Allen, of the "Washing- become less friendly towards the ton Merry-Go-Round"), which, in West, if it should be becoming purporting to explain events more "Eastern," the fault will lie since Munich, exhibits the British. largely with Mr. Chamberlain and Government in an extremely un- his cold-shouldering of Russia in favourable and corrupt light, the past. One might suppose it forced to take a stiff front to-- would be a help and not a hind-wards the aggressors by the in- rance. to him to be able to point sistence of the American Ad- to this evidence of the sincerity ministration. Readers wrote in of the British people, and, unless pain and anger to know whether Russian policy is conducted with this is what they are to believe a cynicism that belies all the pro- we have come to. Now, "alhough. testations of the last six years, it with a pretty clear conscience one: should have some weight. can say that most of the personal.
Russia is not, however, the only insinuations are absurd, and that country in whose eyes Mr. Cham- the State Department would be berlain is seen as Britain's grea- as surprised as anyone to know test handicap. He and the policy that its diplomacy had been so he has followed are largely re- coherent, there is enough justice sponsible for American mistrust in the account of the vacillations. of the Western democracies. That of British diplomacy to make the mistrust is a major factor in in- English reader uncomfortable. fluencing American opinion. It This article-one.among scores of takes various forms from the the sort is merely typical of widely believed legend that the obstacles that are to be over- Munich was a deliberate piece of come before the ordinary Ameri- make-believe got up between Hit- can man in the street can feel ler and Mr.. Chamberlain, to the that Britain under Mr. Chamber- more intelligible thesis that the lain is worthy of respect. A British Government is Tory, nar- widening and strengthening of rowly Imperialist, half-Fascist in the Government, a display of sympathy, and in instinct unde-greater idealism and consistency, mocratic. To many American would be a salutary in their in- minds France and England are fluence overseas as they would be:
liberal democracies that at home.
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