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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 604, 1 February 1921, Page 6

Commenting on the policy of the “biggest navy” party in America, an AnstraJian contemporary says:—The people of the United States are being earnestly exhorted to consider it their destiny to dominate the Pacific. To this end Congress is asked to do two things—to provide the United States with the largest navy in the world and to make of Hawaii a first-class naval base, capable, if required, of accommodating the whole of the United States navy. Hawaii, otherwise the Sandwich Islands.. Group, is described by those supporting the scheme as the cross roads of the Pacific. The title is felicitous. Lying as it does a little more than two thousand miles south-east of San Francisco, and almost emu-distant from Panama and Japan and Australia, in time of war a large licet stationed at Hawaii would menace or control the trade routes. There are seme indications that Congress, will not adopt the ambitious naval programme put forward by the strong party clamouring for the greatest navy in the world, but the case is different as regards Hawaii, which Vidll probably Vie made a first-class naval * base within ten years. Indeed, nveh less remains to be done to tins end than is -common*y supposed. -Not annexed by the United States till less r-n twenty-three years ago, it is already a very formidable naval base.