Republican farmer., 1920-05-14

Admiral Sims told the president he.
 had been shown studies of the de-
 partments plan to prevent the egress
 of submarines, MT. Daniels said, and
 that hec onSidered the scheme i'm
 practicable.
 He evidently sought to discredit the navy departments plans Dy say ing that these same suggestions and many similar ones had been made by people of all classes since the begin ing of the war" said Mir. Daniels Instead of accepting the depart ment'S suggestion of great offensive plans or originating some plan that
 promised to stop the egress of Ger man submarines, his mind was closed to the above and as many other ex- tracts show, to every plan looking to the great offensive which in the fall of 1918 was the most effective foe of the sIbrnarine.''
 Sims cable to the president sug- gested that the proper policy to pa1r- sue was to adopt the recommenda.- | tions he had made to the department. 1 most of which had been decided upon and put into operahon before Ad- | miral Sims suggested tllem,'' Secre- | try Daniels declared.
 | ffHe added the secretary contin- | ued, that we should adopt an or l ganization similar in all respects to l the British squadron and virtually l transfer all naval authority to his 1 headQuarters in London. He was
 careful not to say, though, he re- ] gar1ed the Queenstown base and sIr- 1 roundings as the "critica1 area that l expressed were in all cases 'an infe- l pendent opinion based on specific i facts collected in the admiralty and } other government departments The l second was as follows:
 Depend upon the fact, which l believe to be true, that regardless of
 any future developments. we can al-
 ways count upon the support of the 1 British navy. I have been assured of 1 this by important government off l ciaIs"
 ''It would be interesting to know 1 what British government officials as-
 sured him that regardless of future | developments the United States can l always count upon the support of the
 British navy said MT. Daniels. ''It
 seems inconceiva-b1e that any admiral
 would have regarded such assurance
 as worth paying tolls to transmit.
 Every schooIboy should know that
 in Q democratic government no gov ernment official could pledge his country's navy to support another
 government regardless of future de- velopments- It is to be hoped that l if Admiral Sims has such assurances he will send a copy of the pledge in writing with the name of the i'm portant government officiaI.'' append l ed thereto to be filed in the archives of t*sops for the simple"
 Admiral Sims was under the spell of influences that made him believe i that the British government could be
 depended upon more to take care of
 America than that America should depend upon her own strong right arm," said MT. Daniels.
 This attitude of acceptance of everything British he added, "un-
 doub tedIy accounts for his opposition to the creation of an independent American army and his idea that : American troops sent abroad should : be used as an annex to the British army, quoting General Bliss as recommending that policy When General Bliss read that Admiral Sims , had quoted him as advocating such a l policy he wrote at once to the secre- ] l tary of war declaring the truth to be
 exactly the reverse