THE SUPREME FLEET
LORD FISHER'S ATTITUDE.
, (CNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIKIGHT.) (AUBTRAHAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, sth May. Lord Fisher said the British Navy had dominated, not domineered, the world, When he first went to. tho Admiralty he was asked what his politics were. He replied :"I have none." He voted consistently on both sides and supported the party which gave most morioy to the •Navy. He added : "You can play tlio fool with anything else, and probably ruin tho country, but you cannot play the fool with the Navy.-' The greatest Englishman .whomever liv"cd was George Washington!" because he taught us how to rnlo colonies. • But for Washington, America to-day might have been another Ireland." '
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1919, Page 7
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114THE SUPREME FLEET Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1919, Page 7
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