An English-language broadcast by Tokyo radio last week thoughtfully suggested that Colonel Robert R. McCormick's "plan for the absorption by America of all the British countries may perhaps be the best plan to safeguard American interests" (TIME, May 3). Excerpts:
"Just as you and I, Colonel McCormick . . . has both friends and enemies. His enemies brand him as a British-hating arch-isolationist, a publicity-thirsty megalomaniac. To his friends, however, Colonel McCormick is a man of independent will, a man of action, a fearless foe, ready to express himself regardless of consequences. I also assume there must be...