CONTROL OF THE SEAS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 24 October 1927, Page 9

CONTROL OF THE SEAS.

BRITAIN AND AMERICA. MR WICKHAM STEED'S ADDRESS. (BT CABLB-PBISS ASSOCIATIOK—COPIRIGBT \ (AUSTRALIA* AND K.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATES.) (Received October 23rd, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YOR.K, October 22. Speaking at a dinner given in his honour, Mr Wickham Steed, proprietor and editor of the "Review of Reviews," said: "So far as Britain is concerned, the seas are free for America to put on them, if vo u wish tiie biggest navy the world has ever seen The only question for us is determining the minimum requirements for the safety of our. trade routes, which we would never expect you to threaten, and how far that minimum can still be _ reduced in a sound constructive policy for world peace. May there not one day be another American Doctrine that will contribute even more potently to the peace of the world than the Monroe Doctrine has done, a Doctrine that will establish for all time and give a warning to all that among the peace-loving democracies of this planet the United States stands second to none?"

Mr Wickham Steed, referring to the Naval Conference, said that the broader questions involved were never considered by the British Cabinet as a Cabinet at all. The speaker declared that they had been left to what was in the main an Admiralty Delegation.