NAVAL RACE DISAVOWED
VANCOUVER. March .‘sl
Deriding the suggestion that Great Britain wished to enter into naval shipbuilding competition witli the United States. Sir Robert Horne. M.P. (former British Cabinet Minister) told the Canadian Club on Saturday that nobody but a lunatic would think of such a thing, principally for the reason that Great BriLiin coukl not hope to cope with the United St -.to> aim all the gold which that country lias accumulated since the " ar. He said: “With the greatest > urden o l ' debt which ever confronted any country, no Ghaneellor /of the Excheque- could hold the position who would he so mad as to suggest a naval race with America.” He advocated the migration of British young men to various Dominions, favouring some draft of youths leaving school who would readily assimilate new conditions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1928, Page 2
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