“UNLOVED CREDITOR”
NEED FOR BIG NAVY - AN ADMIRAL’S VIEWS (Australian and N.Z. Press AssociationJ NEW YORK, Tuesday. Rear-Admiral L. R. de Steiguer, the commander of the Third Naval District, in an address delivered in New York, said: “We must operate our own ocean transports if we are to continue the prosper, and must have a well-knit naval system like England's, which we can well copy, to support it. “Our people ,to-day must make up their minds whether or not to take a secondary position in the world. Our fleet and our wealth give us our position in world affairs to-day, and our wealth without a fleet would be a mere invitation for aggression. “We are weak in cruisers. This is a burning question. New cruisers are opposed by groups who are undermining our national character. A fleet is necessary to preserve our economic position, because we are a great creditor nation, and people do not love their creditors.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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