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Show I EUROPE DISLIKES AMERICA FIRST'! NEW YORK. Oct The slogan! "America First" is unpopular among! Europeans who deem ll an expression' of selfishness according to the Rev ) Charles S liacfarland, general uecre-lary uecre-lary of the Federal Council of the ' (lurches of Christ in America who has just returned from a scries of religious religi-ous conference? in Switzerland and a king tour of Western European L it ie.- 'For an American to be In Europe si this tinv Is humiliating and Some-I times almost disheartening," said Or ' irland. "I found the people, iher- onfused They do not know what to, make of America' present aloofness. ' it IMIM In ll-w-m Mirh i clior,. .- ,.r.t r . ! It- our attitude during lh war I found1 the people Gf Europe industriously working at the problems of recon-l structlou While their economic need, are great, one of their greatest need fU the present time Is that of rnornl support "The American nation and the! American people, on tho whole, have nol as yet suffered irretrievably in the timatlon .r Europeans." continued Di UacfarJand. They still belie-, e in ! US and look to us for help. But thoughtful Europeans are disturbed , ' one i.hrH.e which frequent!? reechoes acro.s the sea America First To them n sounds like the words tha used to come from across the Rhine -'Deutachland uber alles' not with the same aggressiveness, but with -omethlng of the same selfishness.'" rtr |