WAR TALK

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 7

WAR TALK

BRITISH JINGO IN U.S.A. JAPAN AND GERMANY WILL FIGHT THE WORLD, HE SAYS. HIS STORY DISCREDITED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 22, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 20. One of the most remarkable jingo speeches delivered during recent years was made yesterday at a public dinner in New York by Sir Charles Higham. a British advertising man, who is here on a mission to exploit the sale of Indian tea in the United States. Addressing the Sphinx Club, Sir Charles Higham made the serious assertion that another war, possibly within ten years, would develop, with the United States and Britain allied against Japan, Germany, and other races, unless the English-speaking nations built Up their air defences to show the warlike nations “they were not going to have any nonsense.” ATTACK ON PANAMA. The speaker further claimed that a plan was being formed for “the yellow races to make an aerial attack on the Panama Canal and California, and to land in Mexico after they have got rid of the United l States defences.” Simultaneously, Germany would attack France. Canada and Australia meanwhile would have their hands full looking after themselves, while Britain would be handicapped from assisting France. U.S.A. A TEMPTING MORSEL. Sir Charles claimed that another war is Inevitable because the Japanese want power and great dominions. The United States’ prosperity and unlimited resources make her a tempting morsel for the war-like nations' of the world, and her very isolation makes her danger greater. “She really has only one great ally, namely, the British Empire, which country, in my opinion, with the United- States, are the only two not progressively keen on war.” Sir Charles Higham’s remarks are printed to-day at great length in the “Times” and other papers, though it is a little hard to undertsand why an advertising man should assume the mantle of the political prophet.