AMERICA'S RESPONSIBILITIES
WAR ENDS HER ISOLATION."'. "'.',. Australian • and N.Z. Gable- Association. (Received May 11, 5.5-p.mv)-« ■ ■ LONDON, May 6. . Mr Josephus Daniels, Secretary-id" [the United States Navy, .at ,a Juncheon !at the Savoy, said:' ''Arriei4cft;s,"'day*of; isolation is over. The" war has'resulted* in a new horizon and a new map. When America entered the war she assumed new responsibilities for a world peace and world conditions, from: which she. could not escape if she would, and from which she would not if &he could." . Lord Fisher said the British Navy dominated, not domineered, the world. When he first went to the Admiralty ho •was asked what his politics were. He replied: '.'l have;none. pqj}-. sistently on>. both sides and supported; the party which gave the most money to the Navy. He added: "You can play the fool with anything else, and probably ruin your country but you cannot play the fool with the Navy. The greatest Englishman who ever lived ..was, eorge Washington, because he taugfit' us how tqrule. colonies. But for Washington America to-day -ffiightrhave been another Ireland." ' ' ..' '
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10277, 12 May 1919, Page 5
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177AMERICA'S RESPONSIBILITIES New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10277, 12 May 1919, Page 5
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