The Washington times., 1938-07-11
UncleSam HuttOn-ReventlOW

TNHE nevspaper-reading world was regaed last week
with the sad story of what witnesses say happened to
Barbara Hutton's romance with her Danish count
According the testimony in the London court which
finally bonded the count in 1000 pounds sterling to keep
the peace, Haugwitz-Reventlow prize package
for any girl to draw in the lottery of life.
Still talking from the testimony-the count fanced
the American phrase ION the spot and said he would
put Barbara there if she didn't look out used dirty
words in talking about his wife to third person and
when Barbara's lawyers offered to buy him off for
$250,OOO said that this was insult, and counered
with an offer to forgive and forget for $5OOOOOO plus
custody of the child Otherwise the testified
to have said he would give his American wife "three
years of hell with headlines"
1t is tragic crack-up of for poor little rich
girl if is rumored she partly to blame, Much
as most of have depored of the countess and
ex-prncess actions as being effective Communist
than any soapbox trade it's hard not to feel
sorry for her in this crisis
Maybe this is drawing long bow; but as this writer
moons over the Hutton Revenow testimony the picture
of Uncle Sam insists raising into the mind alongside
the picture of Babs and staying there
UnCLe Sam, Uncle Sans recent history has been
Co1J 11;x much like that of the countess, as de-
"'" " tailed in that testimony in London last
week.
The feeling that Americans fair game has not
been confined to busted European mobiles yearning after
wealthy American girls. European nations pretty gen.
orally have looked the United States beautiful but
dumb and enormously rich. Anything they could get
out of us legitimate booty European statesmen, on
OCCASION have even put the proposition highly
moral basis telling with tears in their voices that we
owed it to the world and ourselves to save Europe from
the effects of its age-od hates and misaIliances.
That propaganda finally took, in 1917, and went
forth to save Europe Our suferngs from this romantic
adventure and fully heartrending any suf
ferings inflicted an American heiress by her
titled husband, and vastly expensive than even
Haugwtz- -Revenows reported offer to check out for
100000 plus the child.
Instead of making lot of friends in Europe made
lot of ill-wishers downright enemies-peoples and
nations which felt hadn't done half enough for them
We lost huge in loans
HOU the Cola which won't be repaid so far
1Uo M:od anybody now foresee.
o After the war; permitted
large foreign bond issue otations in this country and
large blocks of those bonds in default Further
we financed busted European nations purchases of
goods from u.s. and much of that money shall not be
seeing again.
We suffered record-breaking depression
But we all know that part of the story The alarming
fact just now that concerted attempts being made
to persuade to do another
on the world stage.
IUO SMpS We are being propagandized by radi-
u O Gals and some liberals to line up for
" "collective security" of the democratic
nations against the Fascist nations-Stanis Russia be-
ing called democratic nation in this propaganda The
Fascist and mperast nations trying to counteract
the radical propaganda The object of both sides is to
make party somehow to another which will be
of to us-and which may destroy civilization
know it.
Must fall for this stuff again? We're fools if we
do The policy for the United States is isolation
more isolation and then isolation. Only by
keeping out of other peoples fights hope to work
out destiny whatever it may be, and preserve
civilization which of very high order for all
its defects.
And to safeguard isolation need the strongest
navy in the world.
Justice CardOZO