NEWSPAPER COMMENT
STIMSON'S WARM REPLY
(Received 20th Dec, 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 19th December. The Secretary of State, Mr. Stimsou, asserted on Thursday in a formal statement that it was the deliberate intention of an, editorial in the "Washington Post" to attempt to make trouble among the American delegates to the London Conference and the members of the President's Cabinet to discredit our Government before the Japanese delegation, and thus try to cause a breakdown of the London Conference. The "Post" editorial said: "Needless to say that Americans look with some uneasiness upon the proposition that the size and relative strength of the United States navy are to be determined by a political bargain with other Powers, and that expert naval counsel is to be minimised, if not disregarded entirely. The public would be vastly reassured if the Secretary of the Navy should take part in the Conference which may shape the future of the navy. When Mr. Stimson to-mor-row enters into an exchange of naval views with such an expert as Admiral Takarabe, it is not to be expected that the .Americans can hold their own."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 11
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