AGAINST BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 9

AGAINST BRITAIN.

UNITED STATES FLEET Parity For Times Of War Not Of Peace. FRANK CONFESSION. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. Mr. Frank 11. Simomls, foreign editor of the "American Review of Reviews," in a letter to the "National Review," pays the explanation of the American demand for naval parity is that the mass of Americans do not believe they have any responsibility for maintaining peace in Europe. Further, they are resolved that the next time Europe goes to war British naval power will not make the United gtates a eo belligerent with Britain. American politicians are well-nigh unanimous that British sea power in 1812, 1861 an d ' n 1914-15 exercised a powerful, even a controlling influence to the (Mriment of American interests. "Tbey calculate." ho adds, "that if our fleet is equal to the British, any British Government will be compelled to refrain from interfering in what Americans regard as their rights. Thus, wkile the .American fleet is not being built Britain in peace, it is very deliberately being built against Britain at war. "We are building a fleet for the express purpose ot" abolishing the traditional British blockade. It is a matter of supreme indifference to Americans wLether the next European war is clothed in the moral authority of the League of Nations or whether we si ould gee the League decisions procured by the superior diplomatic skill of the nations. It is equally a mistake for Englishmen to think of the United States as an rftcmy or a friend. Bather would they rigard us as & Power with a policy dicUtftl by certain unmistakable, material and psychological factors."