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Despite its strategic differences with the U.S. over China, the British press could not conceal a feeling of pedantic sympathy-much like that of a father who sees his child burned in the very fire he had warned against. "Americans lack Britain's long colonial experience," said the imperialist Daily Express, with a nostalgic sigh. "To be misunderstood and misrepresented is often the price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America...
...African Continental Bank (the Colonial Office politely declined), and hit the stump. While tireless British colonial officials went into the jungle to persuade 3,000,000 eligible voters to register, and to show them how to cast their ballots, whispers went forth that the tribunal had been an "imperialist plot" to discredit the Nigerian nationalist movement, that Zik had in reality been building a bank for Africans which would "break the British banking monopoly...
...long before the official weather vanes swing into line. In stormy Poland he is a longtime Stalinist timeserver named Jerzy Putrament. When Wladyslaw Gomulka broke with Moscow last October, Comrade Putrament was so enthusiastic in Gomulka's support that Pravda publicly rebuked him for saying that he preferred "imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka." Last month Weatherman Putrament held up a moist forefinger and got the feel of a new breeze blowing through Poland. The country, he said forthwith, was drifting away from Socialism into anarchy, thus creating the danger of "Hungarian tragedies." He accused...
...West's balance-of-arms policy in the Middle East, and in every village and sook from Tangier to Baghdad he suddenly found himself hailed as a hero who had bamboozled the Western colonialists. His Voice of the Arabs grew increasingly shrill, demanding the blood of every Western imperialist, sowing hatred for the French throughout North Africa. He sent arms to Algerian rebels, fomented terrorism against those Arabs who would cooperate with the French in Morocco and Tunisia, offered hospitality to exiled leaders in Cairo...
...Communist terrorism as "a very thorough analysis of Stalinist methods." Other papers have run glowing stories on the "truly democratic" U.S. and Western prosperity. The Culture Ministry's official organ recently published an article on the U.S. economy by a Communist official who noted sardonically that he "prefers imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka...