AMERICAN NAVY
CONSTRUCTION OF BATTLESHIPS VULNERABILITY QUESTIONED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, February 25. Representative Maverick, speaking before the Senate’s Naval Committee, alleged that the Administration was keeping secret reports from the army, showing the vulnerability of battleships to attack from the air because it was committed, to the construction of capital ships. “Wo have no need to worry about Herr Hitler because he won’t come over here, but if he does we already .have a good army and navy.” Representative Koppleman asserted: "Mr Chamberlain double-crossed the United States when he decided to go along with the distators.’ Representative O’Malley asserted that Britain was moulding the United States policies. “ Downing street has a shirt-tail brigade—our own State Department.’ He expressed the opinion that Herr Hitler and Mr Eden’s developments diminished the need for an increased fleet.
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Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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135AMERICAN NAVY Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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