U.S.A. NAVAL HEAD

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1928, Page 4

U.S.A. NAVAL HEAD

CONDEMNS BRITAIN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, November 14. .Mr Bullen a Chairman of the House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee, commenting on the British House of Commons debate, said: “ When Mr Lloyd George said yesterday that American confidence in England and Europe had heen shattered, lie told the truth, and when Mu Baldwin defended the recent inglorious Anglo-French compromise, he proved everything that Mr Lloyd George said against it. Mr Baldwin is in error when lie says that Britain and American statesmen do not understand each other. 'l'he true basis of American statesmanship is honesty of purpose, coupled with a frank and open expression of opinion, while the very heart off European diplomacy is the art of deception and the soul of trickery. ; The Anglo-French agreement is dead, because its main purpose was to inveigle the United States into the adoption of a naval principle which would insure Britain’s supremacy on the seas tor all time to come.”