BRITAIN UNEASY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 5

BRITAIN UNEASY

U.S. POLICY TRENDS RETREAT FROM AMITY WALLACE'S OPINION (11 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 23. “No basis Of co-operation exists between a Labour Britain on the march and a reactionary America relying on her wealth alone and living in fear,” says Mr. .Henry Wallace, a former Vice-President, in an article written for the April issue of The New Republic of which he is editor. Mr. Wallace declares that by speaking out in Britain he had forced an awareness ’n some of his fellow countrymen of the British people’s concern regarding the present American trends and their longing for a new emergence of the Liberal spirit in the United States. Long before he had arrived in Britain he believed that America’s greatest danger was the mistaken belief that large elements in other nations could blindly follow the United States in bypassing the United Nations and using its material power to win friends and influence the people. The welcome that his ideas received in Britain had convinced him he was right so far as Britain was concerned. Referring to the storm of criticism that his speeches had aroused in the United States, Mr. Wallace declared: “It is the American reaction, the rash cries uttered by Americans about the inevitability of war that caused Britain’s retreat from friendship with an America, many of whose policies she distrusts and fears.” Mr. Wallace adds that the British Labour Party economists are convinced tha.t Britain made a grave blunder in accepting a post-war American loan and are afraid of a future foreign trade crisis resulting from “overdependence on the United States.”