“NEXT BIG WAR.”

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17410, 24 May 1928, Page 14

“NEXT BIG WAR.”

AS RUSSIAN EDITOR SEES IT. “DOOM OF EMPIRE." A striking view of the next Great War in which Britain will be engaged, is given by M. Uri Stekhlov, the former editor of the newspaper “Izvestia.” He foresees a giant struggle between Britain and the United States for world trade and finance, and he says, “The smell of blood, powder, and oil is already in the air.” British is represented here as a loose and unnatural Empire, upon which American finance is fast encroaching, and the Briton is being pushed out of Canada, out of LatinAmcrica, and American competition is felt even in Britain itself. Britain, in the Russian view, is trying to form a European bloc of nations against the United States, even to the extent of aligning the Latin-American Republics as allies in the next war. The United States knows this, and has been attempting by her policy in Latin-America to offset it by forming a Western League of Nations. “The first shot of the next great war will mean the doom of the British Empire,” say the Soviet commentators. “The centre of economic gravity has shifted to the United States, and Britain will be left without allies, for none will dare the wrath of America.” Great space is given in the Russian Press to any British or American denunciations. oX each other countries,