" Anti-British Yarns"

The Times of London comments upon the virulent Anglophobia campaign being carried out by William Randolph Hearst and Mayor Hylan in the United States. The article is against a document by David Hirshfield, " The Mayor's Would-be Warwick" published in the Hearst press, to the effect " that there is a conspiracy in Great Britain and America to make the United States again part of the British Empire." Mr. Hirshfield points to eight histories which he describes as British propaganda, designed to belittle patriots of Revolutionary days and to show " that the American Revolution was merely a civil war between English people on on both sides and their German King." Institutions formed to improve relations between the United States and Great Britain are a special point of attack in Mr. Hirshfield's screed.

Says The Times: "All these vaporings would have but little importance if the publication of them were limited to New York City, but through the Hearst newspapers they will go all over the United States and be read by some thirty million persons, of whom the vast majority are too ill-informed to suspect their truth."