Show Weve We've Been Guilty Of Bad a Manners We Ve Americans have been guilty of some pretty bad had manners recently in our treatment of visitors to our country country- and the display was not given by American Ameri Amen can Communists and fellow travelers whose noisy boorish insults to all and sundry they dislike are expected One of the demonstrations of bad manners was on the floor of the United States senate where Senator Langer of North Dakota accused the former fonner British prime minister Winston Vinston Churchill who I was at the time a visitor in America of being a cold blooded propagandist who fought with Spain against the United States in 1898 Senator Langer refused to accept Mr Churchill's denial of the latter charge and in effect called the British statesman a liar Another demonstration of bad manners manners manners man man- ners was in the treatment of another British official Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin in New York Mr Bevin was the target of a barrage of eggs and vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables thrown by members of a Jewish youth organization who were protesting in this fashion Mr Bevins Bevin's policies in re relation relation relation re- re lation to Palestine No one denies the right of Americans to protest policies of the British foreign office in regard to Palestine which is a world issue of world concern concern but but we wedo wedo wedo do not have to be rude about the pro pro- test The right of criticism does not give any American the right tight to toss eggs and vegetables at the object of criticism Frankly the American people have recently given a number of demonstrations demonstrations demonstrations of a tendency toward intolerance It isn't like us to be so tempered short-tempered and ill It isn't in the democratic democratic democratic demo demo- cratic tradition to be so unwilling to hear the other fellows fellow's point of view We Ve would not act that way to a guest guestin in our own home Why should we be beso beso beso so surly and discourteous toward a guest g guestin in our country |