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...Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, came back last week from a three-week whirl around England with some startling conclusions on U.S.-British relations...
...Though this "entirely different philosophy of life" even went so far that some Britons suggested to him that the two nations should merge their air-transport systems after the war (Johnston squashed them with "we want our airlines privately owned"), he still thought the U.S. and Britain should make their "similar economies" compatible before tackling any deals with Russia...
Laski's final barb: "It is marvelous-in a perspiration of passionate excitement Johnston has rediscovered Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, which dates from 1913." But Johnston sneaked in the last word: "It is not Woodrow Wilson who discovered it; it has been the ideal of man since he crawled out of savagery into civilization . . . and you know...
Four days later Laski, who writes a syndicated column for the Chicago Sun, reported his reactions to Messrs. Johnston & Benton. He was still "bewildered" by their blindness to what he considered the inevitable direction in which the world is moving. "Alongside their outlook," he wrote, "Churchill can really only be described as a left-wing radical...
...Right. Harold Laski would have found Crusader Johnston's lecture to a British Chambers of Commerce luncheon later in the week just as bewildering. Eric Johnston told his hosts: "We ought to put a dead stop to all this palaver . . . about how blood is thicker than water," base U.S.-British relations on the facts about the two nations...