ATTACK ON U.S. CONDUCT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25309, 8 October 1947, Page 7

ATTACK ON U.S. CONDUCT

MR J. B. PRIESTLEY’S COMMENTS (Special Correspondent N.Z.PA.) LONDON, October 6. Mr J. B. Priestley, writing in the New York magazine, “Forty-seven,” strongly attacks American leadership in world affairs. “The most powerful Government on earth seems to have no continuing policy, no tradition to guide it, and it is clearly swayed by what is largely an irresponsible, sensation-loving press, and an electorate that can be stampeded like cattle,” he said. “Sometimes non-Americans feel as if their destiny hangs on decisions that come from a three-ringed circus. Congressmen who have never given a moment’s thought to world problems hurry to register votes that may ruin half a continent. Columnists in search of a scoop casually blast the plans of half a dozen countries. • Private feuds that we in Europe know nothing about shape our lives. Sometimes non-Ame-ricans feel as though they are locked in a house with a whimsical drunken giant.”