5 JULY 1930, Page 7
No harm will be done by such a debate. The
expert criticism of our most distinguished sailors was trans- Paiently sincere. It can be matched by much similar criticism, with a precisely contrary force, from the naval experts in America. If these two sets of criticism cancel out, and the American inspirers of panic find it less easy than before to persuade their countrymen that Great Britain has jockeyed America into a second-rate position, so much the better.
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