PACIFIC POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1940, Page 8

PACIFIC POLICY

REAR-ADMIRAL TAUSSIG’S EVIDENCE. SOME OFFICIAL DISCLAIMERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 23. Admiral Stark, Chief of Naval Operations. emphasised that Rear-Admiral Taussig was speaking on his own responsibility in his evidence before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, lie added that his views were contrary to those of the Navy Department. The Secretary of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, also in effect reprimanded RearAdmiral Taussig, stating that the Government had a well-defined foreign policy and that no one outside the State Department was authorised to discuss It is stated that Major Elio, who advocated a naval agreement with Aus-tralia,-a native of New York, went to Australia with his parents at the age of eight years. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces in the Great War and. participated in action in the Dardanelles and the Western Front. He was commissioned major in the United State Army Reserve Corps in 1928.

In the course of his statement to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. RearAdmiral Taussig said: "I cannot see how we can ultimately prevent being drawn into war on account of the situation in the Far East." He urged the building of an invincible navy, the fortification of the Philippines and Guam, and co-operation with Britain, and France in the East.