SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 17 May 1941, Page 5

SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN

DELIVERY SHOULD BE ENSURED VIEWS OF U.S. SECRETARY [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Rec. 9.40 a.m.) New York, May 16. Interviewed, Colonel Knox, Secretary to the Navy, was asked whether selective service men would be used for expanding the navy’s manpower. He replied: “We cannot make sailors in a single year, but if an emergency need, arises we will use them.” Asked if he would ensure delivery of materials to Britain, his answer was a definite ‘ Yes.” Asked what the method of insurance would be, he replied: “Use your head. ,In the last war there was only one menace, —the submarine. This time there are three—submarine, sui'face raider and aeroplane.” Colonel Knox, addressing a graduating class at a naval college to-day, said: “We intend to maintain the right of ever improving the lot of the common man, even though we waste cur substance in wars defending its maintainance. The 1914-18 war was not a war to end war. It is foolish to suppose that this one is any different. It is the responsibility of all of us to see that in the future the navy will never be allowed to decline.”