Comments on America
SIR,-I get your publication nearly every week. It is possible that when you enter the political discussion of the domestic affairs in the U.S.A. you run the risk of entering a family quarrel as a third party outsider. I presume that I don't need to spell out what I am driving at.
You may not realise that the Middle West of this country represents a larger portion of those who haste longest lived ancestrally in the U.S.A. It also contains most of those that are close to and familiar with the pioneering effort that has won the natural resources which have had such an effect on making this country strong.
Sir Oliver Franks a few months ago in Milwaukee -gave one of the finest talks on co-operation I have heard since I listened to the British Ambassador who wrote The American Commonwealth. His name was Bryce, for whom we have a Bryce National Monument. Any foreign newspaper, however logical it may seem to it, runs a risk of damaging the close co-operation between our two countries when it criticises the domegtic handling of the other country's affairs. You may do as you please of course, but I cannot fail to point out that many of us think that Mr. Acheson belongs to the group that fostered Alger Hiss and made it possible for him to exist as a top:level diplomat. We know of Acheson's background and of many of the things he 'has fostered in addition to that jusementioned above. We also know MacArthur. His father and grandfather were born here and he also lived here for many years. I would suggest that you should not attempt to pull Mr. Acheson's and the President's hot chestnuts out of the political fire.
It is possible that Acheson is wrong and that MacArthur is right when it comes to the good of the United States, and for that matter the United Nations as a whole. It is not only possible, but I sincerely believe that it is probable. I am sure that the right will prevail in the long run and we shall see what we shall sec. , In the Spectator you have titled an editorial The Eagle has One Head. This is now the third time that 1 have read a similar presentation in the Spectator. I believe that it is true that the eagle has one head, and I
hope that it is a sensible one. It certainly is not Mr. Acheson and Mr. Truman. It is the United States of America in the person of its people. The United States in person is now acting, and the politician had better
[The United States is far too important a factor in world-politics for a journal concerned with public affairs to refrain from comment on questions which belong by no means to the sphere of merely domestic politics in America.—En. Spectator.]
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