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Show i! DIES OPPOSED TO , I' W!GiBEC81Iij il J ; Men May Try To Court Favor xj ? : of Nations In Hope of JO ; Award, He Says W ; 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Secretary til : Daniels and Admiral Sims differed re- m garding the acceptance of foreign dec-, ; , orations by American officers, the sec- 1 1 retary told tho senate sub-committee 1 1 investigating naval awards. Tho scc- I ( rotary said Admiral Sims recommend- I ed that naval officers be permitted to I J accept such d'ecorat iotas on -tjic ground Ik that it would, have a. marketl effect on moral and efficiency while he op- ; . posed. such a plan. ', "I do not belive for a moment that Sf , 'the mere fact that the British govern- . mcnt had 'expressed a desire to 5f ! award decorations to certain of our iD-' : s ships' influenced, the moral or fight- jp- ' ing spirit of men in the least," said W I : Mr. Daniels. "Its efrect may have I ?j been 'pronounced' upon those more ', cnger for their honors than Amer'can JV I appreciation, but in the American navy that number is negligible. "'I was and am personally opposed to a foreign decoration upon the an-'clcnt an-'clcnt American principle bscd upon the belief that it' such decorations I could be accepted the re would not be maintained a few men in our service whose desiro to obtain them would make them solicltious of securing foreign for-eign approval and favor. Such an attitude atti-tude would be subversive of the per-I per-I feet independence and freedom from (obligation in the slightest degree to any foreign nation, oven to the most friendly nation for which lime being associated with during the war." oo |