AMERICA AND BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 9

AMERICA AND BRITAIN

POTENTIAL GEAVITY WHAT STEED THINKS (A.P.A. and "Sun.") (United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 28th January, noon.) LONDON, 27th January. "I do not believe it possible to exag« gerato the potential gravity of the present Anglo-American position," said Mr. Wickham Steed at the Overseas League luncheon. "Admiral Plunkett and 'Big Bill' Thompson have a perfect right to say what they think, if they aifc expressing the feelings of a good many Americans whose ideas are largely a counterpart of our old pundits in some West End clubs. "Britain should realise that Americans are, perhaps, the most foreign. nation with which they are dealing. A notice, 'Britishers Are Foreigners,' should be posted in New York Harbour, and a similar reminder in Southampton and Liverpool that Americans are foreigners. Only the contact of the average decent Dominion folk, Britons, and Americans will reduce the effect oC Plunkett'a and Thompson's balderdash and moonshine. We must combat the rceiproeal vanities and ignorance of the British and American Governments or they might automatically reach a most dangerous tension." Mr. Henry Wiekham Steed has been proprietor and editor of the "Review of Reviews" since 1923. He was editor of "The Times" from 1919 to 1922, and was present at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921.