CHICAGO’S BOGEY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 December 1927, Page 9

CHICAGO’S BOGEY

'JMfAT Great Britain seeks to conquer America by organised propaganda was tbe extraordinary statement imme in Cmcago by .\lr r i euerick linnsman, a former Associate J ustice ol \\ ashington State Mipieme Court, and author of two books seeking, to expose the conditions.

Mr Bausman was the ‘’star” witness dug up by -‘Big Bill” Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, in an effort to compel the resignation of Mr \V illiam McAndrew, superintendent of the Chicago schools, who is charged with ‘‘insubordination.” Mr nausman said he did not know the histories in Chicago, but lie did know, speaking generally of the United States that the English lion had been treading not only through the schools hut boldly into the public libraries. He asserted that the American Library Association was an agency for the distribution of propaganda from England. Mr George Bocae, president or that association, he said, was a Canadian, and during the war was director of propaganda ior the British Government. ‘‘lt is the deliberate work of human miiitis, aided by the financiers of England, who seek, first, full cancellation of England's war debt to the United States, and, second, the placing of the Union Jack wherever now flies the Stars and Stripes.” IMr Bausman was of opinion that “England beguiled America into the war and took all the spoils; that Cecil Rhodes sought the recovery of the United States as an intergal part of the British Empire; that the Rhodes scholarships were founded to influence students with a personality whom the crowd would follow; that Dean Inge, in his book “England,” had written the most contemptible book on the United States he had ever read. Dean Inge termed the Americans “Shv-

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locks, eager to grab Canada from the nritish Empire.”

Air Bausiinm said he had never met an American who wanted Canada. “Dean Inge veiled, ‘British naval supremacy is at an end.’ ” “It is not so,” resumed Air Bailsman. “England has the mpst powerful navy in the world.” He added: “I have no bitterness against England. They are a strong and resourcerul people.’ Witness described the English-Speak-ing Union and also the Pilgrims as machines from British propaganda. “All Americans in London and in Paris are contemptible by their toadyism to the English.” He declared the wealthy classes of Europe had a tremendous influence at Columbia and Prineetown Universities. “England fears that if America gets to know England was a guilty party in the causes of the World War America no longer will fawn at her feet as some do.” Bishop Alaiming, of New York, he described as born in England, “but

in the American ‘Who’s Who’ he failed to mention the fact.” He continued :

“England maintains in New York an English bureau of information which sends out an amazing amount ■of literature all political. England has naval bases in the Bermudas, Jamaica, and Nova Scotia. She has been at war seventeen times in the last century, annexing 4,500,000 squaie miles of territory and 88,000,00. i people.” Air Bailsman’s evidence had no direct bearing upon the alleged guilt of Air. McAndrew, but the judge, smiling broadly, allowed him to ramble on for over an hour. There was no crossexamination. Mr Bausman is the son of a father of German descent, but his mother was born in England