The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-25
Admiral Sims Is Publicly
 Reprimanded for Address

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 whom the care of our foreign policy Is entrusted.
 | Your letter of June 22, 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 a foreign country you gave utterance to the following statements:
 | Objectionable Statement | do not want to touch on the Irish question. for l know nothing about it, and have not run across anybody in England who does. But there are some people In our country who technically are Americans, some of them naturalzed and some na- | tive born, but some of them are no, really Americans at all. Some of 1 these people are now trying to de- stroy the good relations between our two countries. They are Americans when they 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 white stripes. We know that they are not horses. And some people think they are asses; but each | one of these asses had a vote and 1t | is one of the inconvenience of Il republican form of government that American born citizens thought it necessary to cater to these votes. This necessarily created a wrong impression on this side as to the sentiments of the great body of Americans, but the people of Great | Britain know how much confidence l to place in resolutions which are forced by these jackass votes.
 | "Eleven years ago l made prophe- | cy which came true. I will venture another TOW. I believe l shall live | to see the day when the English | spea king peoples of the world will | come together in bonds of comrade- ship; and if they do so, they will be able to run this round globe. Per sonally, I believe shall live to see an inter En nglish speaking policy, and when we lave that,we shall have all that Is needed to secure peace and prosperity in the world"
 Discussion Forbidden
 '"The department insists on main taining both the precedent and the propriety which forbids a govern ment servant of your position dis cussing such matters in foreign | country.
 1 That the impropriety of such public utterances has once before
 been brought to your attention is shown by the fact that public re- primand was administered to you in
 1911 for making the following state ment in a public speech in London
 If the time ever comes when the British empire is seriously menaced
 by an external enemy, it is my opin- ion that you may count upon every
 man. every dollar, every drop of blood of your kindred across the sea In the reprimand above mem
 toned the duties and responsibilities of officers of the navy who speak in
 public were clearly and fully set forth. The remarks on the occas sion now under discussion. therefore con stituts fragrant and deliberate dis l regard of specific Instructions | Adds to Gravity
 I The department is not unmindful | of your record and achievements as an officer of the navy, but the. con spicuous position you new hold, ! coupled with the fact that you have previously offended in similar man
 ner, merely serves to add to the gravity of the present offense.
 The department deplores the fact that It is necessary to rebuke flag officer in public. but you have made such action unavoidable.
 The department expresses it's strong and unqualified disapproval of your conduct in having again de- livered highly improper speech in foreign country and yos. ire here- by publicly reprimanaded."
 Attached to the copy of the re- pimand as made pubic was a copy of Secretary Denby's order to the ad- miral, issued yesterday instructing him to state In writing the specific | instances in which he was misauote in the press accounts of his speech and to give as accurate a text as pos sible of what he said.
 1 There was also attached a copy of 1 Admiral Sims reply.
 T In his reply Admiral Sims set jforth that his remarks were not pre- lpared in advance and that he spoke 1 extemporaneously. Before leaving i London however, his reply says, he I prepared a copy of what he said with the assistance of the London newspapers and Commander Land. assistant American naval attache in l N<OfiNOa. AtAio ID thC lCAl QuOleQ III Secretary Denbys reprimand
 l How Speech Misquoted
 ] his copy of the speech will show in what respects I was incorrectly | quoted in America" says the Adm; : rais reply. "The essential incor . rectness of the reports that were made on this side Is contained in the following paragraph from your letter (referring to Secretary Denby's let ter quoting the accounts of the speech printed in American newspapers):
 We have a class of people on the other side who are technically Americans, some of them born there. some naturalized. They are at war against America today and at war against you. The simple truth Is they have the blood of American and Irish boys on their hands,
 Tn no part of my speech did I make any such statement as that just quoted above. My reference was to the Sim Fein faction of the Irish people who fought us during the war and to the Sim Feiners in America s~~A ~t. <l,n