"Yankee-Doodlebugs"

British newsmen last week reacted violently to a rash of U. S. columnists (Raymond Clapper, Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Dixie Tighe, Anglophobe Verne Marshall, Major George Fielding Eliot, Dorothy Thompson, Raymond Gram Swing) lately taken on by British papers.

Said the Newspaper World, "Mens insana in corpore Americano. . . . Some newspapers look as if the editor has been Yankee-doodlebugging all over the publication. These great turgid dissertations on the unwanted by the unknown! There is a childlike naivete in American political writing which does not suit us or our newspapers. . . . Even our humor is shelved for what is so often merely a meretricious word-jugglery from overseas. . . ."

Wrote Press Critic Hannen Swaffer 'in World's Press News: "Anglo-American relations . . . have not been improved much by the printing ... of the childish column specially cabled over by Walter Winchell. . . . One of Winchell's puerile jokes was: 'Not so Gayda.' Another was: 'We have a colyum to do.' Frankly, I suggest that any newspaper which wants nonsense of that sort can write it in the office."

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