IRON RING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1941, Page 6

IRON RING

IN WHICH NAZI GERMANY WILL PERISH COLONEL KNOX ON SEA POWER NEED OF JOINT ACTION AFTER WAR. IN ESTABLISHING SYSTEM OF LAW. IBy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 1., “Eventually we shall lock up Nazi Germany in an iron ring’of sea power, and within that she will perish,” said Colonel Knox (Secretary to the Navy) in an address to the American Bar Association. “We shall do this so that totalitarianism can be defeated and the principle cf free governments for free peonies preserved. “The United States and Britain should join forces for at least a hundred years,” Colonel Knox continued, “to produce, by force if need be, an effective system of international law. It is the hope of the world that seapower, on, under and above the seas, will reside for the next hundred years in the hands of the United States and Britain. Should war come, far better a distant war than one at home. If we must fight, let us determine that we shall fight elsewhere than on our own soil/That we will proceed from one measure to another until we havctaken adequate steps to defeat the legions of Hitler and his satellites, Italy and Japan, I have no doubt. We can-, not arouse our people to the full urgency of the situation and bring them to make the necessary sacrifices unless we seize and understand the grander and nobler concept that lies beyond military victory.”