24 JANUARY 1920, Page 2

Probably the only words which Mr. Daniels ever used even

approximately resembling the remark about not allowing the wool to be pulled over Admiral Sims's eyes, was his st--tement that Admiral Sims had been chosen to command, " not because of this speech of 1910, but in spite of it." These words interest as as they area reproduction, probably conscious, of the words which Lincoln used to General Hooker in the Civil War when Hooker was appointed to command the Army of the Potomac in succession to Burns .de in spite of his intrigue against that General.