BRITISH EMPIRE

Grey River Argus, 6 December 1938, Page 10

BRITISH EMPIRE

■■tr;..opr An American View \ . r, j'.iif. • ■. - “5.0.5.” Jo U.S.A.? NEW YORK, December 4. The Hearst press gives prominence to an article on "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire,” in which the visit of the King and Queen 'to America is described as a “Royal SOS to the United States.” , , The writer, Karl von Wiegand, Hearst’s chief foreign correspondent, comments: “Strange and ironic as it will appear, the faf/> of Britain and of George the Sixth in no small measures may lie in the hands of the one-time American colonies of George the Third, who hired German Hessians to fight George Washington. Her weaknesses manifold, Britain is turning to America. The visit of George and Elizabeth is the biggest and most dramatic SOS to America that England could possibly make.” Mr von Wiegand makes charges of incredible complacency, inertia, or.-im competence • in high places; in England. He says: “The British, Commonwealth is a loose-jointed democracy where each t -ljftot and each hand goes its ownimppyway. jTh’e outstanding weakness is London’s, in ability to command Australia and Ihe other Dominions.” . .