"FRIGHTENED BY MIDDLE WEST"
BRITISH INDUSTRIAL LEADER’S VIEW INDIFFERENCE TO REST OF WORLD (Special Correspondent N.ZJ’.A.) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, October 5. “The Middle West frightened me,” said Sir Frederick Hhin, president of the Federation of British Industries, describing his impressions of a recent tour of the United States and Canada. “The sense of satisfaction of the Middle Westerners at their own productive achievements is tremendous,” he said. “Success and money’are their gods, and there is an attitude of indifference not only to Britain and Europe but even to what is happening in the rest of the United States.”
Sir Frederick Bain said that in other parts of the United States, particularly the East, there was a much better appreciation of the world situation and of Britain’s difficulties. Nevertheless, he found that very many Americans could not distinguish between Britain and a country which had gone completely “Red,” Many of them were convinced that Britain was not doing enough to help herself, and others could not understand the close relations between capital and labour
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 6
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