“Empty Gesture”
ABOLITION OF SUBMARINES
War Not A Parlour Game By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 10.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives has placed on record a resolution against the proposals to outlaw submarines. The committee voted six to five against a favourable report to the House on the resolution of Mr. L. A. Frothingham, which was designed to prohibit the general use of submarines.
The Secretary of State, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, in a letter to the committee, had advocated the resolution with the proviso that other nations should also outlaw the submarine. The chairman of the committee, Mr. S. G. Porter, in opposing the resolution on the ground that the submarine was regarded as an essential weapon of defence to small nations, said that he felt the resolution was an “empty gesture.”
“We have no more right to ask France and Italy to abolish their only means of defence on the sea,” he said, “than they have to ask us to abandon our only defence—the navy. In asking them to abolish the submarine we are strengthening our defences by weakening theirs.” Representative Hull said “If submarines are horrible, we should find means of settling disputes without war, instead of trying to make it a parlour game.” —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 297, 7 March 1928, Page 9
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