AMERICA’S POLICY.
MOULDED BY BRITAIN? WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Representative Maverick, at the naval hearing, 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. . “We 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,” he said. Representative Koppleman asserted: “Mr Chamberlain double-crossed the United States when he. decided to go along with the dictators.” Representative O’Malley asserted that Britain was moulding United States policies. “Downing Street has a shirt-tail brigade—our own State Department,” he said. He expressed the opnion that the developments regarding Herr Hitler and Mr Eden diminished the need for an increased fleet.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 9
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