The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-10
ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICA'S SHARE
 IN THE WAR

Most writers who are students of such matters agree that there foreign people who under stand Americans ard their United States so well as do the English and history is filled with instances where the English discovered the real American heart and what permanent and what eVanescent ID the things which agitacd before guessed it out for ourselves. Just Americans are more or less heatedIy iudulgng a controversy over the dls- closures of Admiral Sims and his declaration that "a high official of the Navy Department told him to beware of the English and admonished him that we would as lief fight the English the Germans and as to whether America behaved herself right in the war or did not really commit just one mistake after another and all impede rather than hell the situation.
 A perusal of the English press makes clear that Great Britain is not worrying over any ot these propositions and she understands quite clearl! what was the real attitude of the American Navy Department all the time. what the spirit with whicf America entered the war, and the capacity showi by the Government of this country in it's prosecution The press of that country with almost unanimity de pricates the after udslinging in the United States. hs fst 4 q { 7f ft8
 This editorial from the Naval and Military Rec crd of London, appeaering Under the caption Amer icas Share in s4the War, fair sample of Britisl comment { and its political conclusions should be con sidered by all Americans who would keep their bear ings in this time of partisan political turmoil;
 ~ No one on this side will be disposed to
 regard too tragicaIy the disclosure made by
 Admiral Sims, of the United States Navy touching the instructions he received prior
 to his departure for Europe in March 1917
 That the words he quotes actually spo
 ken to him by someone high up in the Navy
 Department, cannot be doubted In effect he warned against allowing himself to
 be cozened by the British, and told that
 19, the United sta States would as Mi lief fight n the
 Daniels, who naturally assumed to be
 the author of these words, has promptly
 issued flat denial All that he did, he
 declares, recall Admiral Sims
 famous speech which the latter made at the
 pndnn C,iIdh dho1 in iol
 virtually promised that the United States
 would stand by Britain should she ever be
 menaced by external enemy. For that
 speech-which the proved be pro-
 phetic-he was called over the coas at
 home But his outspoken Angophsm did
 prevent his appointment to the chief command of the United States naval forces in Europe in 1917, and that fact alone is sufficient to exonerate the Navy Department
 and the American administration as a whole from the suspicion of having enter
 tained antiBritish sentiments. In view of MT. Daniels disclaimer, the American press
 concludes that Admiral Benson. chief of
 the Operations Bureau. must have uttered the words quoted by Admiral Sims Be that
 as it may, acts more eloquent than
 words, and from the moment that America
 entered the war everything she did dem
 onstrated both her unqualified sympathy
 with the Allies and her firm resolve to de-
 feat the common enemy
 From that time down to the armisce
 whisper of compromise heard, and
 America was foremost in demanding
 All who value Anglo American friend.
 ship and in it of the strongest
 guarantees of peace will hope that the
 fortunate controversy which has arisen in
 Washington may be settled without bring
 ing to light further embarrassing revela-
 tons. If the American people dissatis
 fled with the part their country played
 when once she entered the war we can only
 say they hard please We in this country watched. first with increduty and
 then with boundless admiration the
 Ing growth of Americas new army and g' the speed with which these millions of
 were terried across the Atlantic That was .ta an achievement which could scarcely have
 been surpassed Nor have Americans any
 thing to be ashamed of in regard to the
 behavior efficiency of their fighting
 The first United States naval contin-
 gent that arrived in Queenstown showed it.
 eslf to be thoroughly efficient both in and material, and subsequent reinforce
 ments were well up 10 sample On the
 Western front whether in the trenches in the war of movement, Unce's Sams sol
 diers made good like veterans and
 torn Tommies and polus proud to call them brothers-in- Americans
 therefore, have every to be proud of their share in the defeat of Germany
 It is rumored, nevertheless, that a commit may. be established inquire into the various sins of commission and omission charged against the authorities responsi- be for conducting the Although 1t is business, venture to express the hope that, nothing win this proposal, After all. it would be strange spectacle if the United States of the