NAVAL POWER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4187, 22 May 1939, Page 6

NAVAL POWER

AGAINST THE MAILED FIST. “Defence against joint action in Europe and Asia by the Fascist Powers can only assuredly be accomplished by the common action of the naval power of the three large democracies. Should any one of these three nations attempt ,to remain isolated, the result would bid fair to be an ultimate disaster to them all. On the other hand the conviction on the part of the Fascist Powers that such common action was in contemplation would be most potent to prevent attack altogether. It is far from inconceivable that a threatened or devastated France or Britain or Holland might be forced to cede to a Fascist nation some possessions in the Western hemisphere or in the Orient, or make commitments to that nation which would be even more dangerous to our safety. To-day the German mailed first has far less velvet concealing it than in the years preceding 1914. It is no time for America to forget lessons of such a recent past.”—Mr Stimson, formerly United States Secretary of State.