The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03

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marks to the isolationist solon
from Montana.
Senator Wheeler's story is that
Sir George said, Il am responsible
for getting this country (America)
into the last war and I intend to
get it into this one"
Sir Georges account is that he
said he helped get this country
into the last war and I intend to
present the facts to the American
people and let them decide n they
should get into this war"
Critics generally concur that it
doesn't make much difference
which way 1t was. And when say
critics" 1 don't so much mean
American critics. The English and
Canadian groups decidedly are
more incensed with the old econo-
mist than American commenta-
tors are. Naturally so. The Eng
lsh recognize the danger that
such indiscretions aren't calculat-
ed to improve their chances of ac-
curing a feet of our out-of-date
destroyers or Of closing a deal for
American protection of their New
World islands. a. Canadians are
afraid of an unfayorable popular
American reaction against the
mutually defensive Canadian
American arrangements now so
rapidly progressing.
American isolationists, like Sem
ator Wheeler. contrariwise, were
somewhat pleased by Sir Georges
outspokenness. II supplied them
with some first rate ammunition.
Mighty Poor Judgment d,
The aged economists selection
of Senator Wheeler to express
himself to certainly was a piece
of very poor judgment. If he'd
picked some less isolationistic
statesman to talk to. the latter
might have tried to hush him up.
But any political baby could have
told him that the Montana solon
would give that chat all the I'M
desirable publicity he could pump
into it-and right on the senate
floor, whence it would do a max
imum amount of damage.
That one outburst, by itself
alone, probably won't greatly mat
ter in the long run. But they do
say that Washington's British am
bassador, Lord Lothian. was on the
verge of Mysteries at the thought
Of a tour Of the whole United
States by Sir George, making
series of similar speeches in doz-
ems of cities. Or. II a number of
prominent Britons, even at home,
were to speak up likewise. and be
quoted on this side of the ocean?
oh, murder. The embassy shud-
ders at the idea.
The embassy did, indeed, hasti-
ly order Sir George to pipe down,
within a feW minutes after Sena-
tor Wheeler had told his story on
Capitol Hill. But Sir George is
quite Interchangeable. Neverthe-
less, directly after the warning,
the venerable, chap passed out
newspaper interNe@e-not quite as
bad as his taIkSwith Wheeler, but
sufficiently so TO- scandalize Ms
home embassy.
He'd hardly been heard from,
through Senator Wheeler, before
it was suggested that he ought to
be deported, as an alien propagan-
dist. His embassy didn't waste a
second in stating, unofficially. that
the sooner he's deported. the bet
ter the embassy will like II.
I'VE wish" quoth an embassa-
dorial spokesman. that he could
be dropped over Germany as a
pamphlet"
An Old Dodo?
don't know Just how the Eng
lish press is dealing with Sir
George. The only top-notch Eng
hsh correspondent in Washington
is Sir Willmott Lewis of the Lon
don Times and he hasn't told me
what he's cabling.
Canadian reporters are thick
here. however. They're on the Job
covering" the Canadian-Ameri-
can mutual defense dicker. I've
seen the dispatches quite a few of
them are telegraphing to their pa,
pers. The things they say about
Sir George Paish are aplenty. The
mildest thing they call him is a
blankety-blank old dodo. He's ~
and their version is that he's in