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...many a Briton, the U.S. is a land of sounding darkness, loud with the cries of wild-eyed politicians and the gunfire of Chicago gangsters, and spottily lit by the glaring floodlights of Hollywood. About a year ago, two specialists on Anglo-American relations were gloomily talking over drinks in a London pub. The problem, they agreed, was to show America in the even light of everyday. "What we want," said Bradley Connors, public-relations counselor of the U.S. embassy, "is something like Alistair Cooke. Something that gets the flavor of America on TV as Cooke does on radio." Leonard...
...sedately styled cover of the first issue is a red-and-black lyrebird drawn by Mobilist Alexander Calder as a symbol of the editor's feeling that "the lyrical spirit is badly needed in poetry today." Between the covers appear works by an honor guard of Anglo-American poets, among them Robert Graves, Roy Campbell, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings. The spur behind the would-be poetic renaissance is an unusual editor-poet and long-time friend of poets and poetry, Thurairajah Tambimuttu...
...undertake. It also insinuated that the Soviet government was most anxious to be on better terms with the U.S., even if the American Government did not entirely share its feelings. The British should be able to, take up the appeal with the warmest satisfaction-and without any loss of Anglo-American accord...
Second, the Russians now know their slim chances of cracking the Anglo-American alliance...
...point to remember for the sake of Anglo-American solidarity against the Communist stratagems is that basic elements in the Soviet and British outlook are mutually and permanently repellent. They were present in the McCarthy era when Americans were being told to be on guard against a sellout by the British to the Communists. They would be present the next time a similar strain fell on the Anglo-American relationship-and the time after that...