PRESUMPTIVE WAR
CURIOUS DEBATING TURN.
(Eeceived 11.27 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 29. Debating the Naval Bill in the Senate, Senator Willis opposed the appropriation to build three additional scout cruisers, declaring that there was no danger of war with the British Empire.
In a colloquy with Senator Hale, who urged the appropriation, Senator Willis said Senator Hale knew that, if there, were to be war with Britain, the United States would win, ‘ ‘ through the hostages wo have at our-very door,” and that the United States would invade Canada, annexing that country immediately. “I decline to be alarmed about this nightmare of the Navy,’* Senator Willis declared.
Senator Robinson, interested an what Senator Willis .had said about invading Canada, and carrying out the same analogy if the United (States were at war with Japan, said that the latter would immediately seize the Philippines and Hawaii, thus menacing the Panama Canal.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1927, Page 5
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