Guardian v. Brat

Manhattan's Daily News, which eventually gets a rise out of everyone it hotfoots, last week got a rise out of the usually imperturbable British.

The News did it by declaring editorially: "If [Churchill] and his party don't win this election there is no gratitude in England." In seeming to praise Churchill, the Anglophobic News had a more obvious than devious design: to iterate its moth-eaten theory that Churchill tricked the U.S. into the war. The famed Manchester Guardian saw a chance to spank the brat:

"Once upon a time there was an English religious weekly that ventured in its innocence to express its hope that an American President might be reelected. The comment led almost to an international incident. 'How dare a British paper try to influence the highly intelligent citizens of the great republic?' And in that cry against the impious, none was more loud than the isolationist press, Anglophobe and Russophobe. . . .

"But now, with a British election, things are different. . . . So when a distinguished tabloid member of the McCorrnick-Patterson axis says that [Churchill should be elected], it is only exercising a prerogative that it would be the first to deny us. . . .

"It is always interesting to hear what Americans think and, coming from any other source, Mr. Churchill might value the testimonial. But when the rabid isolationist press starts backing him he should take warning."

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