DANGEROUS WAR TALK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19857, 30 January 1928, Page 9

DANGEROUS WAR TALK.

BRITAIN AND AMERICA. PROMINENT JOURNALIST'S VIEW. A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON, Jan. 27. " I do not believe that 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, at a luncheon of the Oversea League. "Admiral Plunkctt and 'Big Bill* Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, have a perfect right to say what they think," said Mr. Steed, "if they are expressing the feelings of a good many Americans whose ideas are largely a counterpart of the old pundits of some West End clubs. " Britain should realise that America, perhaps, is the most foreign of the nations we have to deal with. A notice that British people are foreigners should be posted in New York Harbour, and a similar reminder should be posted at Southampton and Liverpool that Americans are foreigners. "Only contact between average, decent citizens from the Dominions, Britain and America can reduce the effect of Admiral Plunkett's and Mr. Thompson's balderdash and moonshine. We must combat the reciprocal vanities and ignorance of the British and American Governments, or we might automatically reach the most dangerous state of tension."