BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20319, 30 January 1928, Page 7

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

EFFECT OF RECENT SPEECHES. DANGEROUS DRIFT POSSIBLE. (Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 27. "I do not believe that it is possible to exaggerate the potential gravity of the present Anglo-American position," said Mr Wickham Steed at the Overseas Club luncheon. " Admiral Plunkett and ' Big Bill ' Thompson 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 those of the old pundits. Some of tht. West End clubs in Britain should realise that the Americans are nerhaps the most foreign nation with -which we are dealing. A notice that the British peopic 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 the average decent people of the dominions, Britain, and America can reduce the effect of Admiral Plunkett's and Mr Thompson's balderdash and moonshine. We must combat reciprocal vanities and the ignorance of British and American Governments or we may automatically reach a most dangerous poistion."—A. and N.Z. Cable.