LONDON’S SOCIALIST LEADER LOOKS AT U.S.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 June 1936, Page 4

LONDON’S SOCIALIST LEADER LOOKS AT U.S.

AND FINDS U.K. IS REAL O.K. THINGS MR MORRISON LIKES (By Air Mail —From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON 16th May. Mr Herbert Morrison, Socialist leader of the London County Council just returned from a fortnight’s lecture tour in the United States said: “I’m glad to be back. When I saw England again I thought what a wonderful country it is. There is something so sound about it all. “Those Americans have a real friendship for us. And they are proud of that 3000 miles of unguarded frontier between them and Canada. “Their trains are jolly good, but I prefer our third-class carriages to their ordinary ones. If you want to smoke you have to go into special carriages. The Hearst papers called me a ‘peripatetic Piccadilly propagandist’ . . . “After I had been there for a couple of days I found myself saying the more usual slang words, such as ‘O.K.’ and ‘Oh, yeah.’ Once or twice I would say something in real Cockney which they could not understand. “And the. audiences over there . . they are just grand listeners.” Speaking of the King, Mr Morrison said: “They were always asking me how our new King suited our party. They do not seem to be able to grasp the fact that he is a constitutional monarch. It just beats them.” Then about American women . . “They are really beautiful . . but I don’t think we have anything to complain of. We have just as many beautiful women here.”