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...first West Indian Conference of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission ended last week at Bridgetown, Barbados.* Visiting newsmen feasted on flying fish, yams and rum, were bored. But the delegates representing U.S. and British possessions in the West Indies were enthusiastic about this bold, cooperative attempt to solve the problems of a painfully depressed region...
...Some pedants who have forgotten their Bible lessons in Sunday school object to night starvation, iceman, sex appeal . . . without realizing that they follow such impressive leadership as the Knight Templar, Gladstone bag . . . Lady Mother. ... What is specially characteristic of Anglo-American is the large and growing group of words which can be verbs, nouns or adjectives. . . ." Water is a good example...
...wise Anne O'Hare McCormick, foreign affairs expert, who has a special talent for the examination of Anglo-American relations, came in on the same beam...
...Scripps-Howard foreign expert, old (62) William Philip Simms, had been brooding in Washington over the mysterious vagueness of U.S. foreign policy. Of the Balkans, he wrote: "Anglo-American policy has reached such an obscure, undecipherable stage that United Nations circles here regard it as the prize mystery...
Columnist Simms did not have to search far for a reason. He reported the Washington belief that "Russia is opposed to Anglo-American activities in the Balkans, and London and Washington deferred to her wishes." This seemed to him further evidence of Russian dominance, and American vagueness...