U.S. BID FOR SEA TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1920, Page 154

U.S. BID FOR SEA TRADE.

SHARP ATTACK BY BOTTOMLEY. London, May 19. Horatio Bottomley, M.P., takes another shot at Americans in his magazine, ''John Bull," publishing to-dav a "demand" that Great Britain forbid the United States to Imild any more battleships, without their acknowledgment. 'Ais blast, as the advance copies give it, is the most bitter of all Bottomley's articles against the United States, which lie now frankly calls "our next enemy." Under the heading "Trouble Brewing," Bottomley calls on Lloyd George to warn America that Great Britain will tolerate no more sueli nonsense" from her. After reviewing the cordial receptions given to Eamonn De Valera, "president" of Ireland, in those American cities which did receive him well, and after considering President. Wilson's illness and the SimsDaniels controversy, he said, ."We want the friendship of America, but. it cannot he purchased at the price of our self-respect and honour. The election campaign in the United States has brought out a. great deal of indirect a.nti-British comment wliich otherwise would have remained unspoken. But it is time to cease this nonsense that the United States is Great Britain's ally or friend. I am heartily sick of this farce. Wilson's speech regarding the helplessness of our Fleet was a conspicuous sneer at our Navy—the Navy which conveyed the American army across the Atlantic without a single mishap. Let us remember also the infamous instructions regarding the pulling of wool over Admiral Sims' eyes. I want our debt to America to be paid, hut whether she joins the League of Nations or not, we must notify her that she must not build any more battleships without the consent of the Allies. I personally scent danger ahead, for I see no sign that the United States will reciprocate our friendship. Instead I see only .braggart insolence, swaggering unehesked '.hrough the wastes of mendacity; and signal proof of the truth of my assertion is that basically American idealism is simply another name for Yankee bluff.