PLIGHT OF EUROPE
“America Not To Blame”
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 13.
Mr George Kennan, former American Ambassador to Moscow, objected, in a book published today, to America being blamed for Europe’s plight.
He said America was often blamed for Europe’s inability to resist industrialism, mass culture, over-population, the decline of good living, and the vulgarisation of taste. "It is not our influence which is causing you to choke your highways and jeopardise the integration of your communities by the headlong introduction of the automobile,’’ he wrote.
"There is nothing that requires you to buy our soft drinks, to dance to our music, to view our motion pictres, or to drug your children with comic books. "There lyill be no serious international repercussions if you reject these things," Mr Kennan wrote.
The book, “Russia, the Atom and the West,” contains the series of lectures Mr Kennan delivered over the British Broadcasting Corporation, plus one other which was not delivered.
This one deals with British and American relations after Suez.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28512, 15 February 1958, Page 18
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