MAKING DIPLOMACY EFFEC TIVE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 7

MAKING DIPLOMACY EFFEC TIVE.

It is possible, therefore) to regard tho ntw naval arrangements as finding their origin and justification in fundamental events that long preceded the outbreak of tho pteaent dispute betwesil Japan and America,. A condition /of things under which America's heaviest liabilities were- being incurred in one ocean, while the bulk 6f -hor" fleet wa<i stationed in atiothol', could not be permanent { and in the redistribution of American sea-power that is now in progress there may be nothing j More than a necessary linking of policy with strategy, of responsibility with force, of diplomacy with the material power that can alone make diplomacy effective. That, however, I must admit, !s also a conjecture. The fleet, meanwhile, with its sixteen battleships, its 360 guns, its 13,000 ee&men, its destroyers* hospital ships, repair ships, colliers, and auxiliaries, its six million pdurms df provisions, and the quarter of a, fnil« lion ton 3of eoa.l that has be«tl purchased for its Voyage, and the squadron of two battleships ftftd eight arntouied cruisers that Will hieeb it next April off Magdalena Bay — aro facts.