The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-19

MY Dear Mir. Primo Minister.
 This letter Is not on easy one to write. It Is written by one who has long admired you as the man but for whom England might not exist. It Is also written by one who, long before Dunkirk when England was battling for her very life, urged airplaneS for Britain, destroyers for Britain, and Ameri- can intervention to save the coun- try from which we Sprang.
 This was St time when many Americans pooh-poohed the men- ace of Hitler, urged that the U. 8. A, pull It's skirts away from the mess of Europe, and when some papers published editorials gleefuily speeulatins on what kind of reward "sir Drew" expected to receive from His Majesty. Tho only reward we who helped fight that early battle want Is that our two nations live happily together and with other nations, make abso. lutely sure that our children shall never again fight Q war of this kind.
 But if that reward Is denied the American people, then there will be . bitterness, Q huge armament program, and Q with. drawal Into the shell of iS0la. ton such as the world has never
 seen.
 And If I am any student of American opinion, some small start toward the disillusionment that followed the last war, which defeated the ideals of Woodrow wilson, which left Europe to stew and spoil and finally to spew up Hitler, already is under way. It can be stopped. But we might as well be frank and admit that 1t has started. That is why I am writing this letter.
 We must also be frank and admit that the imperial policies of the British empire have contributed to this start.
 EMPIRE POLICIES RESENTED
 A few months ago, would not have discussed this dangeh in pub. lie, but an army of lo,o00,o00 men does not keep a secret. And every soldier who returns from India is resentfully vocal over the failure of the British Indian army to fight, blaming 1t on the self ish non.Atlantlc Chartetr policy of the Empire.
 And every U. S. officer who stops at Accra on his way across
 the South Atlantic learns how the commander of the American air base there has to pay $25 3 day rental to the British for the
 use of each American truck lend -leased by us to your Gov ernment.
 And in the Near East, almost every U. S. soldier knows how King Ibn Saud Of Arabia asked the American government for new pipes and bathroom fixtures for his palace and was tutrned down because these were luxuries and a war scarcity; whereupon Of. ficials of your government turned round and secured the bathroom fixtures for King Ion Saud- thorugh lend-lease.
 These are small things, of course, but they are things which American soldiers and the American public remember. And they do nOt help our reia.
 tions with Great Britain and our hopes of future peace.
 Not SO small is yuor Govern ment's insistence on keeping King George of Greece on the throne of that country despite his previ- ous fascist associations, despite the overwhelming opposition of the people he is supposed to rule. Americans don't believe in using their armies, their war goods, and their prestige, even indirectly, to keep things in power when the people of their nations don't want them. That is not why we entered this war. It was to de- feat Hitler.
 SENTIMENT or
 BRITISH PEOPLE
 I am sure these policies do not va,,rasa,at thA continent of the