Judgments & Prophecies, Sep. 6, 1954

U.S. IN EUROPE: AS UNPOPULAR AS HITLER

WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, longtime foreign editor for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and now in semiretirement, writes from France that it is time for the U.S. to "take the play away from Moscow."

THE United States is about as popular in Europe today as Hitler's Germany was in 1938-39.

Thanks to the drumfire of Communist propaganda, plus our own errors, our aims are more and more misunderstood.

Our allies more often say nice things about Malenkov and Molotov than they do about Eisenhower and Dulles. I doubt that we have a...

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