NAVY LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20587, 1 July 1932, Page 19

NAVY LEAGUE.

W ORD LLOYD'S REVIEW. P AVERTING THE HERET|c S . ' r E OK OCX o\7* CbMZStOWft?.) LONDON. ALiv 27. | t , 3 <.uii© apparent th* t in Lord 1 W as i>r€biaent ami with Lady LSo'.d aw bis.abie JieuW»%t the Navy , * ~ 1,-c •< real striking force at its kT~ . || o th the presides, , v j J(J uas pjjtd. and Luuy Liu-a at toctiug of tlio league yeF lwl I t tlje | llli;

HI . .a 10 .it-lconie Rri represoiHi.it, the League. In ft-sr days over 200 replies liad |g'"<eived troui public schools ask- !&,>*« ry Lean ue lecturers to bo BIK" "Navy League Sea and Air B ilip World." which was issued Junction with the Air League, S-Iliu 4 well in all parts of tha livirc. ."nd the "Keep Watch" film • uinuid tJ I f booked for schools and Cf Lrriiicht- was satisfateory. some boing well and others r.ot too well. T>jc annunl dinner of the League was ♦.•wiled because of the last General J*l<rtK!i. it was hoped that tl-.a T'trow; '•i Wales, who had intended to ta present, might s?c his way clear to t»o« to a future function... Tlic* i>ea cadets still continued to do jyiud nor!:. This he considered quite tke roust interesting and probably the important youths' organisation in slue country, and tho most efficient. Ife was the only organisation which was mt ajmnicd to teach the boys how to ©ffi-od their country and make thein firoad to «3o it. Tfeere had been active hostile propafv»d» from the league of Nations La ton. «ii.i Lord Lloyd. ll© was not | cmfuHng that body with the great organisation at Geneva. The two >y«k! not be confused. Wherever rei (MCBUtira of the Navy League went tky haul to deal with the Union's tearijins. which was opposed. to the wduurjr doctrines of pat~'otism. tardJJord paid a tri ute to Lady T_iojrd far ib« work she had done in mmexlm with the flag day. Thesis*'! found crest difficulty in getting Mpent They ought to ho able to mere than 390 or 400 helpers. They •Might to be able to get 5000. and these to be prepared to star out in iite nun and ecjwet the money. i GUST Lecturer.

! The {ir&idenl stated that ilic gciu Mxretary (Coiuaaiidcr Denny) liad d»; iig ttntinns work addressing tdttttuw Clubs-up Mid down the counfejbjr. i'hi> work *>**£o useful that they ■pii decided to appoint auuther socrcny Aiii] iciesw- Commander Denny Efer a vetr co act St die League's chief HMstiiKr. Lord afeo mentioned l&tt tpkudid and nijrtiring ivork of leeau* J*<iog" done, by Yice-Ad-j*!iraJ i. K. ,T. Harper. ylcEi tfraingtoii,in a urging '"the Jftrst Lord of , <£• Admiralty not be deterred by »ar or'' considerations fton BU>king^dod-rins ■ statement that U* ceanlrPi vo*ild"-]iave the ships it *« a&cired to lave by 2930, said it <WI he remembered by nil that tha y vb» the Navy of seven nations in ! Kreii sou. thought there were thing* on which the nation ■fc..<4 economise instead of on the HL~. To curtail the Navy was madB » tlia present moment, when'so K' «f tho world was tumbling down. HK# <taald b© "no safety at Geneva ■* *« safety first of all for ■BBmifh Empire;- no disarmament if thero were no police-

I. _ said there were three f iHietux they had to convert roontry. The first were those diiot Jtnoir much about the Thfjr took the services of the 1 ranch for granted as the elecm their houses which they an with a switch, or the water turned into their baths, wa guilty of the comfortable jr. prosperity, forgetting that i C on which a great people aiea was sacrifice. The second • composed of people in which «t bacillus of the League of Union had taken root. These ■ere definitely hostile to the !ague. Thev considered that people should not appeal to their disputes. They forgot ation was based on force, just a house was built on founJf these philosophers would « history of the Royal Navy ild find the police work of the 4 never ceased. Thej- were ninflj Hut woolly-minded people to be made to face reality, sre were the people who conhey could do nothing to help, ter lay in the hands of the eot„ If they wanted proof of »e nation could do when ly aruosed they had only to r the last General Election. cople of England insisted on i strong Navy, there was no enfc which could resist them. Llojd s resolution, which was inanimsusiy, was: In the prea rtf world affairs, only a sufud efficient British Navy can s io guide progress <and exert il force by which the general iy bo maintained; we, thereI upon the Government and liralty* to make proper proporsonnel and material for iiird resolution, proposed by lt-r A. Marsden, M.P., and by Mr C. Taylor, urged that of "the lack of preparation lefence of naval bases which f'h a serious deflection of our rategy at the outset of the ar." the Navy League should the continuous consideration nportant subject by the Gov-