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...read with no little amusement the fuss stirred up in Newmarket (England) by Mrs. Stocker [TIME, Sept. 3]. Mrs. Stocker is still young-by all standards. You Americans are sometimes perturbed by the growing "anti-Americanism" now to be seen throughout the world . . . What is the cause of all this? It's all so very simple...
...Joan Stocker sounds like a spoiled, irresponsible brat, and it might be a good idea to send her home...
...Joan Stocker, 18, was fed up. She and her husband, a U.S. Air Force sergeant, had been living in England for several months and boarding with English families. One day, from Newmarket in Suffolk, she sent a sizzling letter to her hometown paper, the Palo Alto (Calif.) Times. "We are writing," she said, "to let you people back home know just what is going on in the minds of the English . . . They believe [Americans] all have big houses, strings of cars, closets full of clothes and more money than we know what to do with. They charge us all fabulous...
Alarmed by the outcry, Joan ducked out of sight. "I dare not leave the house," she said. "The local people might go for me." Said Sergeant Stocker: "As far as I am concerned, the neighbors can complain until their eyes drop...
...Force public relations officers rushed around trying to soothe the townsfolk; at an Anglo-American garden party they talked hands across the sea and dismissed Joan Stocker as an impulsive youngster. At week's end, under their prodding eye, she issued a formal statement: "I would like to emphasize very strongly that I was not referring to the town of Newmarket . . . Our rent is just . . . The neighbors . . . have all been swell ... I am proud to live in Newmarket." Newmarket calmed down a bit again...