CHICAGO'S BOGEY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2513, 13 December 1927, Page 7

CHICAGO'S BOGEY.

"ENGLISH PROPAGANDA."

THE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARIES

EXTR AORDIN AR Y ALLEGATIONS

New York, Nov. 25

That Great Britain seeks to conquer America by organised propaganda was the extraordinary statement made m Chicago by Mr Frederick Bailsman, a former Associate Justice of Washington State Supreme 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 William McAndrew, superintendent of the Chicago schools, avlio is charged with '"'insubordination." Mr Bausman said he did not know the histories in Chicago, but he did know, speaking generally of the United States, that the English lion had been treading not only through the schools but boldly into the public libraries. He asserted that the American Library Association was an agency for the distribution of propaganda from England. Mr George Locke, president of that association, he said, was a Canadian, and during the war director of propaganda for the British Government "It is the deliberate work of human minds, aided by the financiers of England, who seek, first, full cancellation of Encjland's war debt to the United States,' and, second, the placing of the Union Jack wherever now flies the Stars and Stripes." Mr Bausman was of opinion that "England beguiled! America into the war and took all the spoils; that Cecil Rhodes sougjht the recovery of the United States as an integral part of the British Elmpire; 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 "Shylocks, eager to grab Canada from the British Empire." Mr Bausman said he had never met an American who wanted Canada. "Dean Inge yelled, 'British naval supremacy is at an end.' " "It is not so," resumed Mr Bausman. "England has the most powerful navy in the world." He added: "I have no bitterness against England. They are a strong and resourceful people." Witness described the EnglishSpeaking Union and also the Pilgrims as machines for 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 Princeton Universities. "England fears that if America, getr-j to know England was a guilty party in the causes of the World War America no longer fawn at her feet as some do." Bishop Manning, of New York, he described as bom 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 fcends out an amazing amount of literature, ull political. England has naval bases in the Bermudas, Jamaica, and Nova Scotia. She has been at war seventon times in the last century, annexing 4,500,000 square miles of territory and 88,000,000 people." Mr Bausman's evidence had no direct bearing on the alleged g'.uilt of Mr 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.