The Washington herald., 1920-05-25
YANKSTOPOUR
0IL0N ROUGH
SEAS ABROAD
Anxiety Over Growing Ami
mosities IN Britain Re-
suits in New Move.
TO ENLIGHTEN PUBLIC
Americans Hope to Explain
Away Embarrassing Mis-
understandings.
Byi FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Byt FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Private advices reaching Wash
ingtan with every mail indicate
growing anxiety among Americans
in En- gland over the animosities
which are being aroused by mis-
chief-makers in both countries.
There is said to be hardly an Amer
lean inAthe British Isles today who
is not being made uncomfortable
by the 'rising tide of popular re-
sentmentl against this country.
Representatives OF the foremost
American business interests in
Great Britain are frankly fearful
that unless ways and means are
found for checking the campaign
of mutual hostility. Incalculable
damage will be done. Our people
who live on British soil iare writ
due to British inability ito under
stand a lot OF the strange things
that are happening in this country
in the way of lions tan-twisting.
Unofficial Bureau Organized.
Relieving that more can be ac-
complished privately than officially
to clear up the situation. a group
of influential Americans, in London
has just been formed for the pur-
spose. They are going o,caIl them
selves a Bureau of Enlighten-
ment." \ former Philadelphian.
John Blair MacAfef who gradu-
ated from the University of Penn
sylvania in 1882 and was formerly
= associated with Chandler Brothers
= & Company, is at the head of the
movement Mr.. MacAfee, who now
is a London banker. is conspicu-
Ously identified with all American
activities in Great Britain.
The plan of Mr.. McAfee and his
American associates is to nip
promptly in the bud any episode to
the United States that. through mis-
understanding of its true inward
ness By Britishers, is capable OF
e stirring up bad blood They pur-
pose taGkling at once the Sim Fien
operations in the United States and
explaining to the masses of the
British People. especially influential
business leaders. to just what ex-
tent sympathy for an Irish republic
exists over here.
Men in S'street" DeIuded.
The British government under
stands the situation thoroughly. 1t
is the man in the street" who
doesn't know. The opinion prevail
ing among average Britishers is
that the United States government,
under cover OF congressional res
OlutiOns in favor of the aspiration
Of the Irish people. is actually plot
ting to make war on the British
: Empire.
: Such things as the Xrecent attacks
on the British navy by President
Wilson and Josephus Daniels are
not understood in Great Britain.
The domestic political animus back
of them is not Compreheuded 1t is
to enlighten the average British
mind about those things. as they
arise and before they have had
time to tester and poison, that Mr..
MaCAfee's cohorts will primarily
devote themselves. They plan moth
ing in the way of a brass-band
campaign. They are going to work
quietly. privately. and exclusively
in quarters that will count. They
are not going to try to combat
Horatio BOttomley by resortmg to
his blatant methods.
Mr.. MacAfee. and his friends.
while explaining America to the
Britishers, are also bent on Eek
planning" the Britishers to Amer
leans. They arc going to watch
carefully for events over there that
rub US the wrong way over here.
Public Ledger Service.)