WILSON'S SEVEREST CRITIC
Senatoa* Lodge, wiho hias beem criticising President! Wilson, said that the Ua'i'ied States , had never seen in/ore secareiti diplomacy than in tihe last foua* years under Mr Wilson. A» regards freedom of the seas, he defended the right of blockade as Lincoln asserted it in tihe civil war, and «aiid tba* ho could not imagine tiha.6 Great Britain, would for ome miomenilj tihink of aifoaaidonling tfhaiti right. As regards the greet* American naval programme, he said that, 'tihe rumour that, the navy was to be Used toi oomP'cl Britain to agree to diisaannameimt under '!ihe memac© of naval coanpatiitiom was "entirely okuwQirtiiy," and was not believed by any rtespoinsi'ble mam. Another explanation was that the eAirgied Ameriicaii navy was to be used for poOiic© duty by the. League of Nations- "I will merely say," added Mr Lodge, "that "it* seems to me extiraiCHrdimary thaf. we sthoiuld emtef uipofn a scihefm© for eternal p^ic© by PT'oip'Oßcmf? to build a r:afVT which- in. seven yea.r'si .is t© b© the equal to that «<f England." ; ,
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13964, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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