Many of the .best known Americans come to this country
unheralded and unsung and little is heard of them so far as the ordinary public is concerned. At present one of the best known journalists in the United States, in the person of Mr. Frank H. Simonds, is here studying conditions under the Labour Government, a publicist whose writings are read from one end of the United States to the other. Through the operation of the Syndicated Press, Mr. Simonds' views on current events are read each week by many millions of Americans. It is gratifying, therefore, to note in the Sunday Express that he regards this old country as anything but played out. Mr. Simonds considers that his present visit is the most interesting which he has ever paid to this country. It helps him, as an American, to understand, he tells us, how " in your long history you have been able to accomplish far-reaching changes, almost as important for the world as for yourselves, with that absence of physical violence which in other countries has frequently deprived progress of perman- ence." The way Great Britain is tackling its post-War problems impresses Mr. Simonds as Elizabethan in its daring, and he considers that a national renaissance is taking place. On the principle that the outsider sees most of the game, let us hope that our distinguished visitor is correct in his diagnosis.
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