Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-31
HATRED FOR u. S. In 35 NATIONS
SEEN BY WRITER in LONG STUDY
All Blame Postwar Troubles Upon America as
Wealthiest and Most Powerful Country to Which
They Looked for New Ideals.

| solutely nothing to dot painted
! Fladivostok red. Stories are still told
| in Vladivostok of how American auto
| mobiles ran down peasants in the
| streets, and how two dOughboys from
| Kentucky kicked the motorman and
| conductor from street car and pro-
ceeded to navigate it and collect fares
| themselves. And although our dough-
| boys evacuated Siberia six years ago.
| there still fingers a dislike for Ameri-
| cans, the habit of chewing gum, and
| a craze for the fox-trot.
| The wave of anti-Ameriean feeling
swept Japan just after the United
| States passed the immigration act
| abrogatinE the gentIemen's agreement
| Before that time, the United States
l due chiefly to amicable negotiations
| at the Washington conference and aid
| after the earthquake. was admired
and initiated throughout Japan. Base
1 bah was Japan's national pastime
| and during the noon hour the streets
! were alive with clerks and factory
/ hands stripped to the waist, playing
| ball.
! The ham sandwich and pie a la
| mode We're among the most popular
| Japanese delicacies, while American
| movies were advertised brilliantly
| along the white, way.
u. S. Teachers Employed.
American teachers were employed
! in many schools and universities and
! American social and industrial re
! forms We're closely studied. While at
! tempts at boycotting American goods
| have failed, since the immigration act
passed, the Japanese still nurse con
| siderable silent bitterness against the
| United States.
Although Australia and New Zea
| land buy more goods from the United
1 States than from any other non Brit
| ish country, and although their inter
| course with the United States is~al
most as close as with the mother
country, a considerable amount OF
| good d-natured criticism of Americans
! exists in the Antipodes.
/ The Near East and the Balkans
also nurse their grudge against the
United States. Immediately follow
! ing the armistice when this CORE
| spondent visited that part of the
world, he was hailed as a savior, due
only to the fact that he was citi-
zen of the United States of America.
| Around many Balkan campfire he
J listened to the impassioned speeches
of Albanian chieftains, Bulgar pris-
oners and their Serbian guards prais
ing the United States for bringing
peace, and urging it's help in keeping
peace. The United States, in the eyes
of Europe's common people at that
time, was their god.
Later Blamed America.
Two years later this correspondent
saw some of these same Bulgar pris
oners with their same Serbian guards
/ still building roads in Macedonia.
| The prisoners had not been returned
the soldiers had not beenedemobiliZed
| For them peace had not yet come.
And they blamed the United States.
This has been more or less typical
of the attitude of many countries of
| the 35 this correspondent has visited
since the. war. Because of America S
wealth, because of her wartime ideals,
because of her power, they believed
the United States had it in her power
| to bring order out of a chaotic world
and spurned the opportunity.
| Copyright. 1926.)