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Many thanks to TIME, Oct. 8, for ... English-hating Bertie McCormick's letter to a British monthly, and the BBC's trial of the Loch Ness monster...
...Colonel Robert R. McCormick...
...Anglophobe, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick beats them all. In a letter published in a new British monthly, For Editors Only, last week Bertie McCormick candidly admitted that he hates the English, and tried to tell why. Wrote Bertie: "My hatred for the English originated with the British Foreign Office, who wish to set down my just criticism to prejudice. Among the criticisms...
...article, "The Case Against Ike": Thank you for keeping us informed on the Republican Party's own worst enemy, namely, dear old Bertie McCormick. To many who live in and around Chicago, the Tribune is bought and read strictly for the comic strips. The rest of the paper, in particular the editorials, would be funny if the whole thing wasn't so sad, unfortunately so because there are undoubtedly many people who read the colonel's hogwash and believe...
...certainly helped defeat Dewey in 1948 with his "Oh well, this man is a terrible candidate but I guess he is a Republican" attitude. There doesn't seem to be anyone the colonel could back wholeheartedly except, maybe, a man who goes by the name of Robert R. McCormick...