Admiral Sims, who was the guest at the Pilgrims’ Club luncheon, said that laymen were disposed to give too much credit to the American Navy for the co-operation which had been achieved with the Allies. The Grand Fleet was the keystone of the whole situation, and made conditions possible which enabled the war to be won. “If,” lie said, “the Grand Fleet had been wiped out, nothing in God’s world could hav£ saved the Allied cause. America might have enlisted, equipped and trained 10,000,000 men, and built 1000 destroyers and all the transports necessary, but it would have, been of no use. If it had not been for the Grand Fleet the pepole.here would now bo speaking German with a strong British accent ”
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1921, Page 10
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123Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1921, Page 10
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