The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-22

American Cooks
Give Approval
To- Eden
sY charIe. ?. steMart

BY Charles p. Stewart
Anthony Eden, the British for
eign minister. undoubtedly will
have by the time his stay in this
country ends. more OF an all
around Acquaintance with official
and journalistic Washington than
the average American who spends
most OF his time in our capital.
There are executive, legislative
and miscellaneously bureaucratic
circles among the sojourners at
our seat OF government. These
subdiyided into smaller groups Of
specialists and they do not inter.
mix much. \ congressman. for
instance, on an average has not
much 10 bring him into close con-
tact with the rauk-snd-tilc OF
clerical workers and these, in
turn have varying respective int
erests Of their own.
Consequently if they get upon
intimate relations with each 9TH
err, outside their unrelated
spheres of activity, it is largely by
accident Lawmakers likewise
classify in assorted categories.
They are all on speaking terms
with one another. OF course. but
they tend. for close relationships.
to divide up along party lines and
geography, depending on whether
they come from north, south, east
or west Then there are the State
Department diplomats What
have they and the labor de-
partmental folk to become mu-
tually chummy overs
Anthony Eden. however, arrived
in the United States assigned 10
the task OF establishing the clos
est sort OF friendships with alb
solutely everybody.
Eden's mission was to knit the
United Nations unbreakably to-
gether, for both wartime and post
war purposes. He undoubtedly
did not anticipate serious difficult
ty in accomplishing this aim so
far as Britain and We Nanks are
concerned. although, al that, We
do have some few isOlationists.
We and Comrade Josef Stain.
though, have not been getting on
wholly tremendously lately.
There has been no actual clash.
but some rather disagreeable re-
marks have been exchanged be-
tween US.
Now. Britain. OF all things, is
anxious to tie Russia into the con-
tempted United Nations align
ment II is more essential to
John Bulls than to Uncle Sans
welfare to maintain the best pos
sible terms with Moscow. II goes
without saying that the three OF
Us are stronger union than two
only. China is urgently desired
in il. too. but we and the Chinese
are on first rate terms, anyway.
Furthermore. Britons generally
have not hitherto been quite as
hostile To Communism las the
overwhelming majority OF Ameri-
cans have been. In fact, London
and Moscow framed up pretty
effective treaty between them, and
Anthony Eden was the British
foreign minister who framed II.
Edens visit TO our shores, then.
was undertaken not alone to con.
solidate INSTRUMENTATION rela-
tions (both for war and for subse-
quent peace), which should not be
particularly difficult, as | have
said, but TO smooth out current
Neutrality-suspicious. friction. In
order 10 do that, it obviously was
necessary for Anthony to be an
exceedingly clever conciliator. Be
sides convincing our big moguls,
like President Roosevelt, State
Secretary Cordell Hull and I'm
dersecretary Sumner Welles. IL
behooves him TO convert Yankee
public opinion from its strenuous
anti Communistic complex.
Pressure" was not the thing
for him to exert; Il was up 10
him 10 do it by making himself
so Amerlcanly popular that we
could not resist him
Eden is just the bird TO do this.
Eden understands the Yankee
temperament to perfection His
personality is 100 per cent at
tractive and it is exactly the sort
We go for.
Naturally Eden's first contacts
were with State Department func-
tionaries, but after that he lost
no time in getting Washington
nevspapermen in 10 see him He
did not begin by talking interna-
tional politics. He began by prais-
ing our American menu Half
starved 10 death by London ra-
toning. he fell into raptures over
our New World food and the way