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Any resident Ey the United States may enter except aees rsof CITY SEWING MACHINE Ct Marysville, ind their immediate A strange thing happened to British actress Vanessa Redgraverecently. She attacked the United States of America in anin- ZIP. Miss Redgrave in recent years has identified herself as a prominent unusual about the remarks she made in the interview. What was unusual, lar luxury in Europe for some time— each time Miss Redgrave wentinto a tirade about “American imperialism A aches, found that 14 million deadfish had washed up from the Rhine River and that the pollution preblem had leaped across the Atlantic. Investigation showed that the destruction of the fish had been caused by the pouring of a hundred poundsof a specific detergent into the river. The Suddeutsche Zeitung of Munich com- mented, “Germany has caught the American plague.” Tv. fully understand some hostile European attitudes toward America, it is necessary to go back to the World War II era when millions of young GI's arrived in England. In a country th>t was half-starving and in No more. Europe, it seems, is openly worried about problems be- ruins, the Americans seemed to be cocky, smug, physically bigger than Europeans,andinfinitely better paid. They dispensed cigarettes, chocolate bars, and razor blades and lured the setting America because it has found lasses away from the Europeans. A over the years that when America gets into trouble, Europe eventually becomes infected the same way. Always. though not aggressively vocal aboutit, a significant European majority has always admired Ameri- British Army lament, which voiced the widespread resentment of the “American invaders,” went like this: and decadence,” her social stock went up. ca and believes that the world needs a strong America to protect democratic institutions everywhere. This attitude has been borne out by publicopinion polls which show that Europeans mirror American public opinion on almost all important issues. What Americanslike, they like; what Americans dislike, they dislike, too. Benina that thought lay another thought—arethings re./y going very badly with America? Unspoken, too, and underlying their feeling is the conviction, “We really like and depend on America, no matter whatits defects, and we want it to remain strong and healthy.” Jefirey Blyth, who covers the U.S. scene for the LondonDaily Mail, warned that everything that happens in America happens sooner or later ‘n Europe. The race problem, for which America had been severely criticized, had already manifesteditself in England, following the influx of blacks into the country from formerBritish colonies. Gunshadbeguntotalk in the British Mail Entry to CITY SEWING MACHINE CO., 818 Broadway, Marysville, Kansas 66508 a underworld where, by tradition, both the police and the crooks are supposed to go unarmed. Even Germany, which hadfelt immune to America’s ecological head- we | Family Weekly, February 28, 1971 “What good am I in England Since the Yanks came in with all that tin, Mylovely English sweetheart, myfaithless English rose” European newspapers and Euro- pean officials took a perverse pleasure in the setbacks that America suffered in such instances as the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Gary Powers U-2 incident. Columnists relished and wrote all they could find about Americaandits policies. But now Europeans are hoping against hope that America wili be able to solve its major problems, To paraphrase that celebrated remark about General Motors, the not-sosilent-any-more-majority of Europe- ans feel that “what's good for America is good for Europe.”Visitors from America who tell anti-American jokes hear only hollow laughter. One British official told one such visitor the other day, “WhatI'd like you to tell me about America is that the stock market has shot up 50 points!” It can ail be summed upin the oid cliché: When America sneezes, Eu- rope catches cold--and prays for a speedy recovery. @ |