Among Britishers, none appeals to the American imagination as does Winston Churchill. As British as John Bull, he has an instinct for American atmosphere and personality.

He comes to repair the damage done to Anglo-American relations by the British Socialists, the pro-British excesses of Dean Acheson and those Americans who are captives of British culture. [???] In a word, he must recognize, as few of his countrymen do, that Americans who are more British than American are as offensive to most Americans as those who are more pro-Russian than they are pro-American. The American people are turning from a synthetic globalism, which has brought nothing but misery and death, to patriotism, which built our country.

Churchill is neither a Socialist nor a globalist. He is a British imperialist who did not take office to preside over the dissolution of the British Empire. He represents in his person not only a country, but a civilization.

Yet, it is impossible for him not to recognize three major historic factors which may, in the broadest sense, be producing the forces that will reduce Great Britain to a secondary role. These are:

1. The rise of new civilizations, out of war and revolution, which contest Anglo-Saxon supremacy and superiority not only from the economic and political standpoint but also on a racial basis.

2. The reduction of the authority in world affairs of the processing nations, with the attendant wealth that comes from banking, shipping and insurance. The automatic machine reduces the advantages of human skills and even the so-called “know-how” of experience. Thus new industrial revolution is already having far-reaching effects upon the great colonial powers;

3. The rise of new empires — the Soviet Empire; the Moslem cultural empire; the Latins, perhaps under Spanish or Argentinian leadership; the emergence of Soviet China as a military power; the expansion of the Soviet periphery toward the Indian countries — these historic factors can only be ignored by a political ostrich — a description that can never fit Winston Churchill. Among these new empires, military operations are not conventional, involving the Anglo-American countries in major difficulties.

The British, as the Americans, are being forced to recognize that inaccurately described racial problems move upon the current canvas with greater vigor than either economic or political problems. A Pakistani will not, for instance, accept the Anglo-Saxon concept of “white superiority,” which has no foundation in science or history.

This is tough business and difficult to discuss in the United States where the Negro problem arouses deep emotions. Yet, we are piling up casualties in Korea over precisely this problem. I can say from my own long experience in Asia that if we spent billions upon billions on that continent to make ourselves a popular and to engage the good-will of those people, we shall fail as long as those peoples believe that we are superior because of race.

True, Soviet Russia is doing a masterly job stimulating racial antagonism. They will profit greatly out of the stupidities of the Florida bombings. [Murder of civil rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore, Dec. 25, 1951] But long before Soviet Russian propaganda appeared on the scene, what in Asia is called “anticolonialism,” which is racial, not nationalistic, was a force. I first encountered it in China as early as 1918 and in Japan in 1920. The Japanese Black Dragon Society, headed by Mitsuru Toyama, was already a force.

Churchill undoubtedly comes here for money, but he is no arrogant beggar like his Socialist predecessors whom our State Department supported. He has pride of country. Yet, he must face frankly the cold fact that most Americans find distasteful the British political affinity for Chinese Communists who massacre Americans, particularly prisoners of war.

He would be well advised to reject the counsel of the emotionally captive pro-Britishers who feel that England can do no wrong even if his name is Attlee or Bevan. [Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan]

British policy in Asia can no longer dominate American policy in Asia, and even Dean Acheson accepts a medal from the Jewish War Veterans because there are no Arab voters in critical states in the election year. Churchill will grasp the essence of that because he understands votes. He can discover the pressure of public opinion here on such questions as China, Korea, Israel, Iran and Egypt.

We are not going along with colonialism. Winston Churchill is preferable, from an American standpoint, to British Socialism, headed by the pro-Russian Aneurin Bevan. But he needs to recognize what, in 1952, the American people will no longer support.