"BIG NAVY" TALK
PRESIDENT'S KINSMAN
LIMITS OF THE TREATY
" (Received January 27, 1.30 p.m.): WASHINGTON, January; 26.; .;, "Big navy";.talk, continued today. Mr. Henry Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and a kinsman of the President, in a public address, dcclar; ed: "I am for a navy second to none, within the Treaty commitments; a navy built to- the last rivet and. the last giiii, and manned to the last seaman and marine. This is not because I want war. It is because I want to avoid war, but there is no such'thing as a second prize in battle;' the winner takes all." , : ..
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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