DISUNITED NATIONS WEEK

Britain's reaction to a wave of anti-British criticism in the U.S. was both sharp and serious last week. Britons have been slow to anger at what they consider misinterpretation of Empire policy, but this time the lid was off.

Winston Churchill had his acrid say. Said the London Sunday Graphic: "This was Disunited Nations Week in the U.S.A." The Graphic added that real harm was being done to the world-vital friendship of the U.S. and Britain. The Daily Mail bitingly satirized the world-touring U.S. Senators who loosed a flood of U.S. pride and criticism last fortnight. A writer in the Sunday Dispatch laid the blame for the Darlan deal in Africa and the recognition of Italy as a cobelligerent at the respective doors of U.S. statesmen bent on kid-gloving Vichy and U.S. politicians rounding up Italian-American votes.

Some of these reactions were as extreme as the U.S. attitudes which had touched off the debate; nearly all ignored the patent fact that the U.S. is feeling its international oats. With good luck and wiser second thought, a healthy, mutual understanding might yet emerge.

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