“A FOREIGN NATION”

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 92, 28 January 1928, Page 5

“A FOREIGN NATION”

THE UNITED STATES. ATTITUDE TOWARD BRITAIN.. POTENTIAL GRAVITY OF CASE. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. “I clo not believe it is possible to exaggerate the potential gravity of the present Anglo - American position, said Mr H. Wickham-Steed (proprietor and editor of the * ‘Review of Reviews and forriierly editor of “The Times ), at the Overseas Club luncheon. “Admiral Plunkett and ‘ Big Bill ’ Thompson (Mayor of Chicago) have a perfect right to say what they think. If they are expressing the feelings of a good many Americans, whose ideas are largely a counterpart of the old pundits or some West Find clubs, Britain should realise that Americans are perhaps the most foreign nation with which we are dealing. A notice that British people are foreigners should be posted in _ New York harbour, and, a similar reminder should he posted at Southampton and Liverpool that Americans are foreigners. Only contact between average, decent people of the Dominions, Britain and America can reduce the effect of the balderdash and moonshine ot Admiral Plunkett and Mr Thompson. We must combat the reciprocal vanities and ignorance of the British and American Governments, or we might automatically reach a most dangerous tension. , .