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Beetle-browed, 69-year-old Colonel Wedgwood is no fancy-pants. He fought for Britain in the Boer War, in World War I was wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting progressive. For 35 years (first as Liberal, then as Laborite) he has been a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
...last month Colonel Josh landed in the U.S. He had every right to be there -for 90% of the business of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (whose managing director is the Colonel's son Josiah) is done in Canada, the West Indies...
...first nobody paid much attention to the Colonel's spirited but discreet lectures. Then a reporter for Hearst's International News Service got an interview with Colonel Wedgwood in Boston. According to Hearst's man, the Colonel spoke out in forthright terms against U.S. inaction. Said he: "The trouble with you Americans is that you're afraid to assume responsibilities. Your President has assumed a large share of responsibility, it's true, but why haven't you got a sensible Congress? . . . After all, this is your...
Touchy Congressional isolationists jumped a mile. Snorted Representative Paul Shafer of Michigan, a member of the Military Affairs Committee: "You, Colonel Wedgwood, are one of the principal cogs in Great Britain's propaganda machine. . . ." Said Montana's bull-like Senator Burton Wheeler: "I resent a member of the British Parliament coming to the United States to criticize the American Congress...
...worse was to come. Back in Manhattan, Colonel Wedgwood was told what Burt Wheeler had said. The peppery old Colonel exploded. Said he: "Tell Wheeler to go soak his head. Who is he, anyway? He's from Montana, I understand, but what nationality was he originally?" In calmer tones the Colonel added: "We have had years and years of these wretched appeasers like Wheeler in England, doing nothing and hoping for the best. . . . At the very kindest, I say such people are misled...