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Show HARDING VANT8 GREATER NAVY Pleads for Merchant Marine and Navy Competent to Defend Mercantile Interests. Norfolk, Va. An America preeminent preemi-nent In maritime commerce, cultivating cultivat-ing friendly relations but Jealously determined to defend its rights, was pictured by President-elect Harding on Saturday as he ended Ills vacation and turned to tljo task of formulating policies of his administration. In n half dozen short i-clipfl lie risked for a government aided mar-chant mar-chant mnrlno tlmt would innV-e the United States "the greatest innrtlmo nation on earth," nnd for a nftvy fit to bo the first lino of defence for a peoplo "everlastingly determined to defend Its commerce mid Its rights." Ho nlso spoke for an International pence understanding thnt should not jncrlflco American nationality, and |