"VAST DIFFERENCE."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 11

"VAST DIFFERENCE."

NAVAL RESPONSIBILITIES. BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES. FIRM STAND NECESSARY. (Br Telegraph.— Special to "Star."} WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The attitude of America in regard to the limitation of naval armaments was touched upon by Sir James Allen in the course of his speech on the Address-in-Reply in the Legislative Council today. Great Britain, he pointed out had given away her Japanese Alliance and her supremacy of the seas, and had been reduced to equality with the next great Power, and now the United States expected more of her in respect of battle cruisers. Sir James pointed to the vast difference between the responsibilities of the United States and of Great \ Britain in the matter of the defence of their eommuni- % ties, and said that, in coin pa r ison. 4 those of the United I States were as noI thing, for British 1 responsibilities were I spread all over the world. Our comSir J. Allen. munications m nst be safeguarded. It was gratifying to hear that uioae wnu were representing Great Britain at the Conference at Geneva were taking up a firm stand in the matter, and he hoped the Americans would see that there were rights which we must insist upon so long as the world remained as at present-