British Support on Vietnam?

In eight months’ time British opinion on what is going on in Vietnam has changed. Today, they buy the American thesis of Communist aggression

One of the tasks sometimes assigned to U.S. citizens living abroad by their embassy is defending American foreign policy. In England, the organizing body is the United States Information Service, situated in the eagle-topped embassy in Grosvenor Square. Because the USIS is particularly eager to keep relations between Britain and the U.S. as close as possible, the number of speakers sent out from London in any one week may be quite large. Most of them receive no pay, being recruited for train fare to fill engagements which cannot be filled by embassy officials for reasons of manpower or of discretion. A Rhodes Scholar may address an organization of retired civil servants on “The Structure of American Government.” Or a Fulbright lecturer may discuss the race problem before a women’s club in Durham. The operation is a large one and the results cannot be estimated because so many variables are involved.

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In eight months’ time British opinion on what is going on in Vietnam has changed. Today, they buy the American thesis of Communist aggression

One of the tasks sometimes assigned to U.S. citizens living abroad by their embassy is defending American foreign policy. In England, the organizing body is the United States Information Service, situated in the eagle-topped embassy in Grosvenor Square. Because the USIS is particularly eager to keep relations between Britain and the U.S. as close as possible, the number of speakers sent out from London in any one week may be quite large. Most of them receive no pay, being recruited for train fare to fill engagements which cannot be filled by embassy officials for reasons of manpower or of discretion. A Rhodes Scholar may address an organization of retired civil servants on “The Structure of American Government.” Or a Fulbright lecturer may discuss the race problem before a women’s club in Durham. The operation is a large one and the results cannot be estimated because so many variables are involved.