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Tess of Ohio also may speak In support
OF the treaty.
The State Department yesterday Is
sued in parallel columns excerpts from
the speech of Senator Hale of Maine
an opponent of the treaty. and the
minority report submitted to the Senate
from the Foreign Relations Committee
by Senators johnson of California, Moses
OF New Hampshire and Robinson of
Indiana. and from the speeches of Win
ston Churchill and other members of
the English House of Commons.
While Senator Hale and the other
opponents of the treaty in the Senate
expressed the opinion that the treaty
old not give the United States parity
with Great Britain in naval strength
and that the pact in fact "hamstrune"
the American Navy, the Britishers de-
clared that the treaty gave the United
States superiority on the sea and ham
strung" the British Navy.
Senator Hale in his address in the
Senate Friday said:
The British by the terms Of this
treaty nave us hamstrung and hogtied
and there they will keep us as long
as limitations Of ornaments are the
order Of the day"
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Winston Churchill, speaking in the
House OF Commons May Is, said:
Il am astonished that any admiralty
board of naval officers could have been
found to accept responsibility for such
q ham stringing stipulation /" it Is
to make 1t certain that our cruiser
FORCES will be reduced to inferiority be-
fore the treaty comes UP for revision
in 1885 or 1886"
Senator Hale said:
While its proponents claimed that
the treaty provides for parity with
Great Britain, as a matter of fact it
provides no such parity during the life
Of the treaty unless, which is unthink-
option as to cruiser building and build
ship for ship with Great Britain along
the lines Of her naval needs and not at
all along the lines of our own"
Winston Churchill said:
1T Is not a treaty of parity at all
In the sense that Great Britain and
the United States should be equal pow
ers upon the sea. but that on the con-
trary it Is a formal acceptance by
Great Britain Of definitely inferior sea
power"
Col. Gretton in the House Of Com
mons on May Is said
ut Greatly has been brought about
by scaling down the British navy to
the size which suits the United States"
The minority report of Senators
Johnson, Moses and Robinson In-
diana) said:
The treaty does not give us parity
with Great Britain in naval vessels and
leaves us far from parity in naval pow
er or commerce protection.
Comparison Is Continued.
winston Churchill said:
"Under superficial and paper appear
ance of parity this treaty embodieS
solemn acceptance by the British EN-
pire of permanent secondary position
in sea power.
1--WE are no longer to have navy
equal even for purposes of battle-1 say
nothing of trade protection-to the
other leading navies of the world"
Sir B. Falle in the House Of Com
mons said:
1--WE want real parity. If we do not
get 1t we must be inferior and sub
servient in my opinion, so far
as our sea routes are concerned and so
far as the security of the Empire is con-
cerned, the government In this treaty
have betrayed their trust"
Moses, Robinson, Indiana) said:
I'VE can build the cruisers Great
Britain permits US to build but not
those we ourselves, because Of our re-
uuirements, desire to build"
Winston Churchill said:
Surely it is a great shame to take
away from this country by international
instrument all that f1exibility that power
Of varying types, modifying types. which
in itself was restraint on this absurd
process Of building long series of ships
all of one kind and matched exactly
with their counterparts in another
navy"
The contention Of the supporters Of
the treaty that opponents Of the pact
In this country and opponents of the
pact in Great Britain are making the
same Kind of arguments against 1t Is
borne out by this comparison of the
speeches made in the House of Com
mons and in the Senate.
Senator David I. Walsh Of Massa-
chusetts, who will vote for ratification
Of the treaty, Is prepared to offer Q
resolution In the Senate demanding o
naval building program which shall give
the United States the full nasal strength
provided under the terms Of the treaty.