AMERICAN NAVY
STRENGTH IN PACIFIC (United Pre** ».ssn. —Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, March 17 A blunt warning of America’s strength in the Pacific was issued at Baltimore today when the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Frank Knox, declared: “ I am sure the United States has the most powerful and the hardest-hitting fleet afloat in the Pacific. It is ready for any eventuality. There is no cause for alarm about what it would be able to do in the event of war.” British diplomatic circles in Washington regard the visit of American warships to New Zealand as a demonstration of co-operation between Britain and America in the Far East. They believe the visit has been undertaken to show that any threat to British territory in the Pacific is of vital concern to the United States, and also that American ships could patrol seas far from their base at Hawaii.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21374, 19 March 1941, Page 5
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148AMERICAN NAVY Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21374, 19 March 1941, Page 5
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