THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
On*. Strut: Shield. ‘‘l want to put in a word for the Navy. The value of the services that it rendered to the Allies has not been .sufficiently appreciated even in this country, but in foreign countries it is completely ignored and forgotten. I say here, deliberately, from a full inside knowledge of the facts, watching the thing day by day for four and a half years, that had it not been for the British Navy, the Allies would have been smashed in the lir.-t year of the war. Field-Marshal Foeh- and there is no individual to whom the Allies owed so much as to this brilliant general—could not realise the importance of the Navy. And that is why France will never he a maritime country. Britain is the only country in Europe, except Scandinavia. which has the sea-sense.” David Floyd George at Swansea,
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1923, Page 2
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148THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1923, Page 2
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