Evening star., 1921-06-25
NAVY, Department
I. REPR|MANDS sims
Got What ! Deserved the
Same Old Thing" Says
Rear Admiral.

A second public reprimand for
breach Of naval discipline stands
against the record Of Rear Admiral
William 8. Sims as a result Of his
speech in London. June Z. criticising
Sim Fein sympathizers in the United
States. Secretary Denby formally ad-
vised Admiral Sims Of that decision
yesterday, a few hours before the
officer left for Newport-to resume his
duties as head Of the Navy War Col
lege. -
Il got what i deserved-the same
old thing" Admiral Sims said, as he
left the White House. where he had
called upon President Harding at the
moment the. rsprimand. was .being
made public. He. e1pressed regret
and added that. so far
ass he yas ccncsrned he considared
the incident closed. ~
Senate Inquiry Unlfkely.
.sAefiag chsarrsaa SPeindextea Of the
SenAxA naval committee said today
that in view OF the reprimand ad-
ministsred to Rear Admiral Sims by
Secretary, DENLY. the Senate naval
committee probably would not con-
duct an Independent. Investigation into
the London speech Of the admiral. An
inquiry by the committee is proposed
in a resolution by Senator Harrison,
democrat, Mississippi. adopted re-
Gently. -;
report advising the Senate that the in
cident had been Investigated and dis
posed Of by the Navy Department and
that proper action had been taken"
Secretary Denby. in his communica-
tion to Admiral Sims, called the lat
taken against him in 1sii. when he
assured 4 British audience that, in
the event iof external attack. they
could count on the last drop Of blood
and the last dollar Of their kinsmen
overseas
statement BY MI. De.by.
The te4t Of Secretary Denby's repri-
''On June 8. 1921. there appeared in
the pubic press throughout the coun-
try a. report OF certain statements al
legged to have been made by you on
the occasion of a luncheon given in
LONDON on the previous day at which
YOU were the guest Of the Engiish-
Union. !. ss-..
rhese public statements. il correct
ly reported. dealt with matters which
properly should be the subject for
of.cial other than ona to whom the
care of our foreign policy is intrusted.
Your letter Of June %, in which
you furnish the department with an
abstract of the speech delivered by
you on the occasion in question, con-
firms in essential points the afore-
said press reports and shows that on.
public occasion in Q foreign country
you gave utterance to the following
statements: '.r.
Il do not want to touch on the
Irish question. for know nothing
anybody in England who does. But
there are some people in our country
technically are Americans, some Of
them naturalized and some native
borh, but some of them are not really
Americans at all Some of these peo-
pie are now trying to destroy the
gopd relations between our, two coun.
tries. They are Americans when thew
want money, but Sim Feiners when
on the platform. They are enemies
of ours and yours. They are like the
zebra-either white horses with
black stripes or black horses with
are not horses. And some peonie
think they are asses; but each ono
of these asses had vote and II ia
one Of the inconveniences Of a re-
publican form OF government that
citizens thought II
necessary to cater to these votes.
This necessarily created q wrong inn.
preston on this side as to the senti-
ments Of the great body of Americans.
but the people Of Great Britain Know
how much confidence to place in reso-
lutions which are forced by these
jackass votes.
prophecy which came true. I will
Venture another now. I believe /
shall live to see the day when the
English : speaking, peoples Of the
world will come together In bonds
OF comradeship; and II they do, they
will be able to run this round globe.
Personally, II believe ] shall live to