Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-18
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Enemy Navy Expert Warns Nation Against Too Much
 "Brotherly Love"
SEES OWN MISTAKE
Naval Program Discussed In Detail By Leader
 Of German Fleets

SAINT BLAZIEN. Baden. Feb. IT, (By the Associated PressJ-Admiral von Tirpitz, German navai authority, in an interview today. discussed the American naval program and its rel erence to the prospective relations of the United States with Great Britain and Japan.
 rThe United States is about to build a great fleet" he said As the country borders on both the Att lantic and Pacific, and lacks outlying naval bases, America presumably give special attention to the radius of ac- ton of her ships. That holds good equally for battleships and battle cruisers and for submarines and air craft In creating a navy Americans should remember that the great deci- sion lies not with coast defenses, but on the sea
 The admiral cOntrasted Americas position with that of Germany few years ago, and said:
 Americas great industrial growth and the consequent increase of her merchant marine requires increase Of the navy and it is my belief America win not make the mistake Germany did or trusting the life and prosperity of it's commerce and industry merely to the brotherly feeling of the Eng lish.' IL is all very well to regard the brotherhood of nations as a dis tant aim worth striving for, but mean time providence has ordained a riV- airy to keep alive the impulse for na- tional advancement The United States will be forced to give their international trade solid protection, eIIner through their own power or through gaining political friends
 While England, for the moment. has only to consider Americas com mercial rivalry. yet the United States must contemplate the natural develop ment of conflicting interests in the Pacific that call for decision and must inevitably face the economic, military and political hostility of Japan France is so completely dependent on England that for a long time she can not be a political asset for the Uni ted States, as she was in revolution ary days.
 When. and in what manner. the is- sue between the United States and Japan will be decided, cannot be fore seen. Tn the interest of the world, war will be avoided, but behind that conflict will always be a growing con- fIict between England and America America is prone to underestimate England's power IL is not America, but England, with her numerous out posts and with her bridgeheads ad- vanced against other countries-eyen against the United States-that rules the waves and the world. Such will be the case, though in a less degree, when America owns strong navy. In a certain way the position of the United States will be the same as Germany's before the war.
 Tt must be further considered that England has gained supremacy in Flu rope; that her power covers all Afri- ca. Mesopotamia and India, and that she holds the keys to the Mediterran- can. at Constantinople. the SueZ can al and Gibraltar. This control coun- terbalances the compactness of Amer ica's territory"
 He referred rather causticallys to British political foresight, and declar- ed that. regardless of England's treaty with Japan and friendship with America she would turn where her political interests lay in case of a conflict between Japan and the Uni ted States.
 The English would do as they have successfully done for centuries. with the result that the continent of Eur ope is now ruined. while England. as always. stands there. lord of the world" he concluded.