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...world's most unrelenting Anglophobe, the Chicago Tribune's Editor and Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick was treading gingerly last week when the first leg of a month's flying tour* of Europe brought him to London, the heart of the conspiracy. British newsmen went eagerly to bait him in his suite at Claridge's. Only one got in, was startled to find him unexpectedly mellow, even complimentary. "I think you [British] are coming on a bit," said the colonel. After a thoughtful pause, he added: "There's one thing which always strikes me when...
...bootmaker, drove off to the outskirts of London, visited the Ludgrove School, where he was once a student, and remarked: "It was here that I learned how to be patriotic to one's country." Even London's Laborite Daily Mirror had a kind word for Bertie McCormick: "Now he is with us once more . . . and has been summing us up again. Bless him. Bless his stupid old rancorous heart." The News Chronicle even suggested the time might be ripe to open the question of "a Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Esteem between Britain and the colonel...
Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the sometime British-baiting publisher of the Chicago Tribune, and his wife arrived in London for a visit. The colonel did not plan to attend the coronation, but, he added, "... I have some lively memories of British royal families. I recall that once the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, patted me on the head when I was a little boy visiting Germany. The Prince was with the Kaiser . . . The Prince said to me, 'There's a nice little British boy,' because he noticed I was wearing a sailor's hat bearing...
...tend to exaggerate the lily-white coverage of Britain by American newspapers when you do not mention Colonel McCormick and other isolationist papers in this country. Even papers which are not anti-British . . . emphasize how expensive those countries are for us rather than the debt we owe them for holding the line in two wars until we were ready to make our own sacrifices for the world's freedom...
...Today," wrote Columnist McCormick, "Italy is more important than it has ever been-a crucial spot in the cold war, a testing place of American policy, a center of Mediterranean defense and of Mediterranean problems, including the thorny issue of Trieste...