BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES
NAVAL COMPETITION CONDEMNED. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 1. *Mr Joseohus Daniels, Secretary of the United States Navy, was the. guest at a luncheon at which the Duke of Connaught presided. Mr Daniels said it ■ would be a calamity -worse than a crime if the United States and Bntaui entered into competition m naval su maments. ’t w >ujd not be for the world’s good if anv, dp'or, -j.osscfW a navy capable of dominating the world. England, with her great Empire, needed a great navy, as did America, with her huge coast lino. Neither country needed to entertain suspicion regarding the other. There must never be competition between England and America. On the com tyary, he felt assured that there would be a combination, of their navies as there had been during the war.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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