DISARMAMENT AND BRITISH NAVALISM
Das, Prof. Taraknath
Disarmament and British Navalism England Will Attempt to Force Recognition of Her Larger Navy at the Conference to be Held in Washington By PROF. TARAKNATH DAS IN a recent debate in the House of...
...Will America serve the cause of Peace by championing the cause of the freedom of seas which British navalism is bound to ignore...
...General Smuts believes that recent big events may enable Great Britain and the Dominions to formulate a wise policy which may retrieve the historic mistake by bringing the United States of America into lines of cooperation with the British Empire...
...The Fourteen Points were not discussed at the Conference...
...The freedom of the seas was never as much as alluded to at the Peace Table, for the announcement of Mr...
...Has President Harding the courage to uphold the question of the freedom of the seas without lowering American dignity...
...Wilson's militant championship brought him a wireless message from London to the effect that the proposal, at all events, must be struck out of his program if he wished to do business with Britain...
...Are the American people awake to the seriousness of the British programme, which, if carried out, will make America in all intents and purposes as one of the vassals of the British Empire...
...Hot water gushed from a well driven near Sebring, Florida, and is coming to the surface at the rate of 40 gallons a minute...
...It is then apparent that Anglo-American understanding of some kind to preserve the British Imperialism, maintenance of British naval supremacy with an understanding with America and wiping out of the American doctrine of the Freedom of Seas are only some of the programmes of British navalism in the coming Disarmament Conference in Washington...
...TARAKNATH DAS IN a recent debate in the House of Commons, Mr...
...In the coming Disarmament Conference to be held in Washington, Britain will try to have America come to an agreement recognizing that Britain should maintain a bigger navy than that of America, as in the Paris Peace Conference, Britain forced the American representatives to drop the question of the freedom of the seas...
...This is the second hot water well brought in in Florida, one having been drilled at Pensacola about 20 years ago...
...Yet we see that such distinguished British statesmen as General Smuts is anxious to secure American co-operation to further the cause of world peace in terms of British Imperialism...
...The Christian Science Monitor of July 30, 1921, says: "America is the closest to the British Empire in human ties, a truth General Smuts emphasized by a touch which no Dominion Statesman has given in quite the same way...
...The first well ceased to flow when the drill broke through rock and diverted the water into a subterranean lake...
...We venture to predict that if America raises the question of freedom of the seas in the coming Disarmament Conference, in all probability, France, Italy and Japan will support the position of the American government...
...She is, he says, looked upon by them as the eldest of them, a relative with whom the British Empire is in a close agreement, and with whom it can most cordially work, a relative who left the British circle a long time ago through a great historical mistake...
...If they want to avoid this and want to see that America uphold her position with dignity and further the cause of world peace then the question of the freedom of seas must be decided on American interpretation first, before they talk on disarmament or Anglo-American understanding...
...The flow has maintained an even temperature of 130 degrees and shows no signs of abating...
...Prettyman, while welcoming a naval understanding with the United States, added "But if such an agreement is impossible, it is impossible for us to say, simply because we trust and believe in the continued friendship of the United States or any other country, we can allow them to have a navy to which cur navy would be manifestly inferior...
...The British government is without doubt determined to maintain naval superiority over the United States...
...Surrender of the question of the freedom of seas and discussing disarmament will be mockery unless America has really given up her national tradition and national dignity...
...To talk about Disarmament with British naval supremacy and without the freedom of the seas, one of the most important American doctrines and essential elements for world peace is real mockery...
...And without a fight or remonstrance the President struck it out...
...If tho coming Washington Conference can make Britain and other nations accept the just doctrine of freedom of the seas binding on them, then it will make a great progress towards peace...
...SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, July 31, 1921...
...E. J. DILLON: The Inside Story of The Peace Conference, p. 96...
Vol. 13 • November 1921 • No. 11
