The _Manchester Guardian_, with a smaller circulation and a smaller foreign staff, still manages to make its influence felt far beyond Manchester. Its policies are those of the Liberal party and, as the Liberal Party is now in eclipse, the _Guardian_ brings to the discussion of national and international affairs a detached and refreshing sharpness. Where _The Times_ occasionally adopts the tone of a wise and indulgent father in its comments on the world, the _Guardian_ speaks with the accents of a worldly-wise nanny. When the _Guardian_ is aroused, its "leaders" can be corrosive and bitter. It is less likely to support the foreign policy of the government of the day than is _The Times_. Consequently, the _Guardian_ is liable to be more critical than _The Times_ in dealings with the United States and American foreign policy. (The Suez crisis was a notable exception.) But it is well informed about the United States, and so are its readers. In Alistair Cooke and Max Freedman the _Guardian_ has two of the best correspondents now writing in the United States for the British press. Their reports are long, detailed, and accurate, and Cooke, in particular, never forgets that what a foreign people sees in its theaters, reads in its magazines, and does on its vacations is also news to the readers at home. Such great provincial newspapers as the _Yorkshire Post_ and the _Scotsman_ follow the conservative approach to news adopted by _The Times_, the _Manchester Guardian_, and the _Daily Telegraph_. With the responsible London dailies they serve the upper middle class and are its most outspoken mouthpieces in a period when, as we have seen, that class is being pressed by high taxation, the rising cost of living, and the simultaneous development of a new middle class and a prosperous working class. The _Sunday Times_, for instance, has devoted many columns to the plight of the professional man and his family, and all of these papers have reported at length on the appearance of associations and groups devoted to, or supposedly devoted to, the interests of the middle class and opposition to the unions that represent the new working class. The cult of anonymity has persisted longer in Britain's responsible and reliable newspapers than in the United States. Although Fleet Street knows the names of _The Times_'s reporters, the public does not. Richard Scott, the Diplomatic Correspondent of the _Manchester Guardian_, has no byline, nor has Hugh Massingham, the brilliant Political Correspondent of the _Observer_. The influence wielded in the United States by columnists still is reserved in Britain almost entirely to the anonymous "leader"-writers of the responsible British newspapers. Working with the editorial-writers are hundreds of industrious, well-educated, experienced reporters. They are good men to talk to and to drink with, and they are tough men to beat on a story.