Republican farmer., 1918-12-13
vISC0UNT GREY MUCH AGAINST
 SERvILEE HOUSE
If the Commons Were of This Type It Would Be a
 Drift to Bolshevism.
NO COMPETITION
 IN SHIPBUILDING
Would Have Term Free dom of Seas" Clearly
 Defined.

Dewsbury, England, Wednesday, Dec. 1.---A league of nations is the solution to the question of freedom of the seas,' and Great Britain and the United States can reach com plete agreement on that question by Joining such a league, declared Vis- count Grey, former foreign secretary, in a speech here tonight.
 Viscount Grey protested against the election of a servile House of Con- mons, saying that In such case there would be drift toward dictatorship or Bolshevism. While giving credit to the present government, he said the people must be fair to the men who preceded the present cabint in office and who made ultimate success possi- ble. He praised Viscount Haldane former lord high chancellor; Viscount Miner, secretary of state for war Colonel Winston Spencer Churchill minister of munitions; Lord Kitch. ener, Premier Lloyd George and Wal 1 ter Runciman, former financial sec retary to the treasury and liberal member of Parliament for Dewsbury Viscount Grey said that even the success these men had achieved would have been impossible without the sup. bort of former Premier Asquith.
 Speaking on relations after the wal between Great Britain and the United States, Viscount Grey said:
 If there is competition in maya shipbuilding between Great Britain and America it will be fatal to gooC relations. What is desirable in ou naval policy is not domination or su premacy, but, security. I do not be lieve conflict between America anc Great Britain possible. We must no be jealous of any shipbuilding on thu part of the United States"
 The seas, the viscount said, wer
 free in times of peace and Grea
 Britain had placed no restriction
 upon them. During the war tn
 American navy had aided the Brit
 ish navy in maintaining the block
 ade and Lord Grey thought tn
 United States would use the sam
 weapon, if necessity for 1t arose i
 the future Without the blockade
 he added, Germany might have wor
 The term freedom of the seas,
 he continued, was American in orig
 in and had been adopted by the Ger
 mans for their own purposes. H l believed President Wilson near I freedom of the seas to all who join
 ed a league of nations, but tn phrase needed clearer definition.
 This is a matter which, it is feal
 ed, may create difficulties betwee
 President Wilson and the Britis
 government" he said. T think it
 great pity that so much has bee
 said about the freedom of the ses without it being defined. It is trr : there is considerable prejudit , against the phrase, largely due to Il : fact that 1t is believed to be Ge r man phrase It Is not German, b1 American. It was made in u T United States and the German | adopted and used it for their o0 ' purposes in a sense to which we ha7 never agreed. Hence its unpop1 larity. But until President Wilsc
 defines it and comes to discuss <, with our government, there Is I e need to anticipate difficulty about {
 agreement as to what it means. Freedom of the seas in time s peace? If so, we agree, Wherev I the British navy has been in pos
 tion to exercise it's influence and pov , CT on the seas in times of peace d has exercised that influence impa
 tially for the freedom of the seas f all nations without distinction. TT ,, United States. I think, has some ru '1 forbidding foreign ships to car Q goods between the United States ar ' the Philippines Some other cou l. tries have similar rules. We nev
 had regulation like that. We ha q been more completely for the ire ,- dom of the seas in times of pea l., than any other nation. Howev h great our sea power has been, ' L. have used it for impartial freedom
 the seas for every other nation
 much as for ourselves, and I thil
 we ough@ to receive a little mo
 recognition than we do for the ia 0 that we have never used British nav
 power in times of peace to make t
 use of the seas easier for ourselv ts without simultaneously making -h easier for others on the same tern n- If the question is one nf the fire 1- dom of the seas in times f war, tn le I would say this: the United Stat en as we all most gratefully recogni e. has taken part in the last two yea 9. of the war. Without the Unit 10 States we could not have had t on success the Allies have now won. CT cannot emphasize that too much T
 express too much admiration of