WE MAY ABHOR WAR
MUST HAVE BIG NAVY HIGH DEGREE OF EFFICIENCY (Aust. and N.%. Cable). Washington, Jan. 23. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr G\ D. Wilbur, speaking at the Middlesex Club, Boston, said: “Wo must have a first class navy m time of peace if we are to havea first class navy in time of war. No matter what are our social standards, nor. how we may abhor war, it must be conceded that it would be shameful for a nation financially able to equip itself with modern weapons to send men to battle in ships so inferior that their sacrifice would be tlies obvious result. A. spirit.! of fairness and decencv alone should compel ns to provide modern of war. We have the choice' of abandoning the navy or of maintaining it in a high degree of efficiency, and of these the navy plans the latter. The idea that ships may he built and placed in reserve, to he commissioned in time of hostilities, is l utterly impracticable.” ,
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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1312, 25 January 1928, Page 8
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