THE DECORATIONS CONTROVERSY
1 WASHINGTON, February. 7. Mr Josephus Daniels, in giving evidence before the Senate Investigating Committee, said that after Congress passed the law. permitting the acceptance of foreign decorations, President Wilson directed the State Department to notify the European Governments that the United States did' not wish any decorations to be conferred on Americans.
in the meantime Admirals Hodman, Strauss, and Sims had accepted such decorations. Admirals Hodman- and, Strauss desired to refuse them, but accepted them lest a refusal might offend Great Britain. >•
Admiral" Sims held that decorations would have a valuable effect on the moral and' the fighting efficiency of Americans. . .
ivj.r Daniels further alleges that Admiral Sims told the Congressional representatives at Paris during the war that General Pershing had failed to break, the German lines, and that the American Navy had played a small part compared with, that of the British Navy. Mr Daniels said he accordingly refused Admiral Sims decoration's -because he had become a British propagandist.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9225, 9 February 1920, Page 5
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