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Show OUR NAVAL PROGRAM CAUSES UNEASINESS Great Britain Is disturbed over America's crent naval program and many of the English newspaper writers writ-ers freely admit their inability to reconcile re-concile the peace and disarmament ap peals of President Wilson with the Daniels program of a mightier navy The editor of the London Globe calls ihe seeming contradiction 'American Dope," and says: "President Wilson who handed ou. this dope to us himself secured the adoption by congress of the navy ap-proprlatifon ap-proprlatifon SCI which authorized naval construction in the I'nlted States to the tune of something like 250,000.000 sterling. That is a very much larger naval program than to 1 which any other nation has commit ted itself. "As Archibald Hurd writes in a j most suggestive article in ihe Fort- j nightly: The fact that President Wilson Wil-son prevailed on the delegates at the peace conference to accept his concep 1 1 .on of a league has no effect on ihe: secretary of the navy; regardless of! what was occurring in Europe he pressed forward his plans.' "Daniels is still doing so He has prepared and begun to put in operation opera-tion a program which in three years will make the I'nlted States by a very considerable margin ihe fir?t naval j power of Ihe world Lulled by the insreotizing league dop by the drugs skillfully prepared by America, e have called a halt in construction un-ider un-ider the idea that this blessed conglomeration conglom-eration of states will save us from all need to defend ourselves. "But the need Is there as imperative impera-tive as It ever was betoiv and wo have only to look across the Atlantic to see how pressing it Is. No one threatens the United States; against WhOJD then is lll- Vast fleet being! hni"" r I Secretary Daniels repeatedly has fitated that if America failed to enter the League ol Nations there was only lene alternative course and that was 'armament on sea equal to that of Great Britain, and the secretary has jbeen pushing on In that direction ever since the senate f-iiled to ratify the I treaty ol Versailles. The secretary of the navy is consistent, even thoug'i the English feel they have been deceived de-ceived by the president advocating 'disarmament while the secretary 'built larger and more powerful war-Ships war-Ships than did any other countrv oo |