AMERICA'S NAVY.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 5

AMERICA'S NAVY.

AS LARGE AS ANY. NO WAR WITH BRITAIN. (By Cuble.-Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.} NEW YORK, March 7. ' The -New York Tribune's" Washing . ton correspondent states that dissension between members of the Cabinet on tne question of armaments is seen in the statement of Mr. Edwin Denny, Secretary of the Navy, at the Navy league j dinner, that the United States navy must be as as. any in tin- world, espeeiallv Britain's. Mr. Denby, dwelling on the size of Britain's navy, said that if lie.were asked why the Inited ■ States navy should be large he would ' reply with the Yankee question, "Why' not ?" ' ! Mr. J. W. Weeks, Secretary of War. ' dirlared that t here was need only for a' navy as large aa that of any country with which Ihere was a probability of war. , ( I Mr. Denby definitely made it clear ' that war with Britain was not imapin- | able.—(A. and N.Z. < ahle.l President Harding recently conferred with Mr. Denby. and discussed the I types C if batlleships to lie constructed | d'urtnjr the next four years. Rnth ■ opposed any alackcninp of warsnip | buildinp until after a partial diaarma- j nyMlt. had been reached by j the Powers. { . '■_!"! i