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Show DEVIOUS DANIELS. SECRETARY DANIELS returns from his whisperings in Europe to announce that the United States will be under the protection of the League of Nations and, therefore, will not need the biggest navy. Last December he declared that as a member of the League of Nations Na-tions the United States should have the biggest navy. Secret understandings secretly arrived at apparently occupied the time of Secretary Daniels while in Europe. He hints that Great Britain will turn aside from its program and devote its efforts to im- H provements in types. H Congress has only the impressions of the secretary to guide it. H Great Britain has not bound itself at all events not openly to limit I jfl its program. If it should build all the ships it plans the United States jfl navy will be far inferior in strength to the British navy five years jfl hence. jfl What mysterious influences or assurances have led President fl Wilson and Secretary Daniels to alter their plans ? What duties of a fl naval character were to devolve upon the United States as a result H of last December's understandings in London and Paris? What II lighter duties have foreigners assigned to us that makes it unncces- H sary that we have the greatest navy? jfl So far as the American people are aware there has been no change fl in conditions. They have only the word of the secretary that condi- tions have changed and his explanations, as reported in the dis- H patches, are vague. He seems to have heard in the country of Talley- H rand that words were made to conceal thought. M |
