CANADA A HOSTAGE.
J ,rj\ ENT OF WAR- A\ lin c . «ji cable —press association— cuPiR-iutiJ \VASHING-J ON, ,Jan. jy. Debating vhe Naval B-.il in the Stellate, Senator Willis- oitposeU an appropriation lo build three additional cw-out cruisers, declaring that there iva* no danger of war with the British Empire, in colloquy with Senator Hale, who urged the appropriation. Senator Will’s said that Senator Hale knew that, :ii l ucre were to be war with Britain, the t uj ted States would “win through the hostages we hare at our very door.’ and that the United States would invade Canada, annexing it immediately. “L decline to be alarmed about tin. nightmare of the navy,” Senator Willis declared. Senator Robinson remarked that lu was interested an what Senator Willi* had said about invading Canada., and, carrying out the same analogy, if the United States were at war with Japan the latter would immediately .seize the Philippines and Hawaii, thus menacing the Panama Cfanai.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 February 1927, Page 5
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