Might End in War

Evening Star, Issue 19792, 16 February 1928, Page 5

Might End in War

U.S. Naval Programme Creates Distrust Appeal of Peace Representatives “ Hatred for English People Flaring Up ” Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, February 15. (Received February IG, at 11.20 a.m.) Representatives of peace, religious, and cliurcli organisations appeared before the House of Representatives Naval Committee and opposed the suggested naval programme as a menace to world peace. The deputationists declared that the agitation for a huge navy was creating a distrust of the United States among the other nations, particularly Britain and Japan, which might end in war if the programme were carried out. Dr William Hull, of Swartluuorc College, said: “ If you gentlemen could only talk with American people outside Washington, you, too, would be amazed and startled by the hatred for the English people which is already flaring up, and which is stimulated by this proposition.” Dr Arthur Brown, secretary to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, repeated to the committee a considerable amount of hearsay evidence of an alarmist nature, which lie claimed lie received from ,the American navy and army officers, to the effect that in certain circles war between America and Japan was inevitable,