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Show I NO MASTER OF THE SEA One of the greatest benefits conferred con-ferred by the nrmfi conference was the breaking down of the rivalry' In arnia ments and now, for the first time In history, no one nation has a mastery of the seas Arroifjing to Mark Sulll I van, the political writer. Great Britain Brit-ain has yielded up the control of tho ocean. Sulli'-an say6 : "One thing so far lost sight of that It Is hardly even mentioned Is the fact that through one of these treaties Great Britain surrenders sur-renders the undisputed mastery of the seas. It is true she Is not stripped of It by force; but. vol untarlly. In the Interest of a new order in the world, admits an equal partner. That this happens through the processes of confer ence does not deprive If of the fact that this conference thus becomes be-comes the equivalent of any of the great decisive sea battles of hlatory. "Dominance on the sea is no longer, as it always has been in the past, the possession of a single sin-gle power. It Is now handed over to a mutual partnership of nations. na-tions. The mastery' of 'he sea which Britain now, so to speak, turns over to trustees, has been within her solo possesion for 200 years. Before that Holland had It and before that Spain and Portugal, and so on all the way back to Tyre. Always there was one power dominant on the sea, and never did It paBS except through battle, until February 6. 1922." When Churchill, Immediately after the Boer war, proposed to Emperor William that Oreat Britain and Oer many cease to carry on a rivalry In naval strength, tin- first effort was made to check the ruinous competi-Ion competi-Ion Great Britain had reached the point where the empire no longer keep up the pace, without verging on bankruptcy Tt)8 kaiser was umbt ious to have the createst fleet aflout .tnd he rejected the overtures. Then the United States entered into the contest and rapidly was overtaking Great Britain when the arms conference confer-ence was called. It Is well for the world that tha lHV luense expenditures for warships have ceased. |