THOSE DECORATIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1920, Page 7

THOSE DECORATIONS

SIMS. A "BRITISH PROPAGxYNDIST/' WASHINGTON, 7th February. The Secretary to the Navy, Mr. J Daniels, giving evidence before the Senate Investigation Committee, said that after Congress had passed a law permitting foreign decorations for American subjects, President Wilson directed the State Department to notify the European Governments that the United States did not wish any such decorations to be conferred. In the meantime Admirals Rodman, Strauss, and Sims had accepted decorations. Admirals Rodman and Strauss desired to refuse, but accepted lest their refusal should offend Britain. Admiral Sims held that the decoration would have a valuable effect On moral and fighting efficiency. Mr. Daniels further alleged that Admiral Sims told Congressional representatives at Paris during the war that General Pershir.g hadl failed to break the German lines, and that the American Navy played a small part compared with the British. Mr. Daniels accordingly refused Actmiral Sims the decorations because he had become a British propagandist.