Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-06

British Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden's presence in the United
States for "a general exchange of
views ON all aspects of the war
situation" is nicely timed, for there
are evidences that U. S. love for
the British, which reached a pas
sionate peak after Dunkirk and
went on up from there during the
blitzes, amt what it used to be.
This found unofficial expression
in Washington recently when p
British attache remarked facetious-
" and off the record that the best
thing that could be done to i'm
prove American relations with
Great Britain would be to have
see to be that the more The
quently.
There is more truth thar
whimsy i'm that sly hit o. typical
British hunOr. for the fact docs
English suffer, the more we love
them. When the going gets good,
the American tendency is TO
assess the British war effort
more critically and be Just little
sUsnicious of every move the
British make.
This international miStruSt Of
the cousins across the seas has
heen hotherine nooole in high
places for some little time. Mavhe
the Eden visit is result of this
concern, maybe rot Either way, it
is possible to reveal that American
ard British officials in Washington
End London have been holding some
verY confidential converse tions to
sec if thev couldn't find the
causes of this ill-Will and then do
something about them.
YaNKS TOO RICH
While the u. S. Office of War
Information makes much of the
feet that there is now a greater
british demand for news about the
United States, not so much has
been reported on the unkind things
which are being said. A British
soldier, and the word gets back to
the United States that it is un-
safe for British citizens to be out
at night if there are American SOL
diers thereabout.
Froni British sources come
COMPLAINTS that the American
soldiers scattered about the
British Empire have too much
money to spend. There being
rothing in the stores to buy, the
Yanks gamble awav their pay
sD"pd it on too rnuch hieh LIVING
which causes prices 10 rise and
reduces Quantities of foods left
to the British. Besides which. as
cur movies show, all Americans
are rich gangsters. so it's only
natural that the u. S. soldiers
are in general drunk and dis
orderly all over the place. That
kind of stuff.
All such stories are of course
base rumors which DR.. Goebbels
md the Nazi propaganda machine
leue to have spread as widely as
Dos ossible, but they do no good to-
wards comenting an" bonds of
f"i"ndship between the two Eng
'ish speaking members of the
United Nations.
MUTUAL CRITICISM
On this side of the picture, prac-
tlcally every one in the United
States knows all the stock criticisms
which Americans have of the
British-the British are great at
having other people fight their wars
tor them, the British didn't pay
their war debts, the British are
selling U. S. war supplies, the
British won't free India. look what
the British have done to Ireland.
the British will double-cross us at
the peace conference-all that
To get at the bottom of this
mutual mistrust, British and
American information people
some time ago decided to ap-
preach the question in scien-
tific manner. Each side would
prepare list of all the things
which the people of one country
held against the people of the
other. They. would conduct sur
veys. samrle public opinion, write
reports. The British had no ex-
periencc in this public opinion
poll business, SO the Americans