The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-31
LONDON LOOKS US OVER

Not the least of the manifestations of British
American friendship which attended the recent visit
TO this country of the King and Queen the publ
cation of United States number of The London
Times. copy of which reached the Empire editors
desk last week
From it's impressive front page layout showing
the skylines of New York and London with an ocean
between to its reprintng of little items from the
Times of 1889 which demonstrate much smaller IN
terest in the United States dwelt in London in the
18h century than the in the GOTH the edition
would be of interest any American for an evening
perlsal We can only hope that Londoners found
it as interesting.
The little unpleasantness of the 1770s is ex-
planned away by Lord Lothian Ambassador Designate
to the United States, in a scholarly and friendly
article on British and American Relations as follows
THE breach made in the unity of the English
speaking world by the revolution OF l776 was far
more due to defects in the constitutional system of
government both in Britain and in North America
than later generations realized The fundamen-
tai cause Of the quarrel the immense cost to the
British taxpayer of the against France and the
Indians the unwilmgness of the coonists to con-
tribute to that cost though they the principal
beneficares, and the natural but fatal determination
of King George III to try to compel them to do So
The first Inauguration was of sufficient interest
in London to merit four lines in the Times of June
"a 1879: ION the 31st May his Excelency General
Washington was unanimously installed with the dig
nity of Chief Magistrate of the United States of
America" A week later there appeared another dis
patch from the new nation the Atlantic:
almost every letter from America is full of the power
ty. distress and misery of her citizens and several
well-informed Republicans do not scruple to assert
that one of the first Acts of the Federal Govern
ment must and will certainly be- earnest applica-
ton to Great Britain for some small share in the West
India commerce. the loss of which the Americans now
feel with the most painful regret"
In its 80 pages the United States number of the
Times endeavors to explain our country to its sub
scrbers through articles bearing such titles State
City And Town; The System of Government Won
ders of Modern Engineering; American Life To-day
and Tomorrow; Pageant of the Pacific; The Negro
in American Life; Faith in Education; Holidays by
Mountain Lake and Sea; A New Day for the Rec
Indians; Womens Interests; British and American
Farming; Contemporary American Literature; Wages
and Living Standards Network of Always; Gambling
With Molecules and Atoms; Two Views Nationa
Finance: Motor Cars by the Million; Films and Holly
wood; Sports and Spectators, and many others.
These are the things in America which interes
England in 1899 AS whole they are dealt with very
well though nescapably trifle duly, by The Times.
It is interesting to what London thinks of thu
American subject which he's been discussed CONSTANT!
in this country for the past seven years. Following
are quotes from THE New Deal in the U.S.A.":
ut represents conscious and deliberate effort t.