Evening star., 1930-06-26
M'KELLAR SCORES
LONDON NAVY PACT
Senator Replies to PennsyI-
vanian in Radio Address on
Nations Sea Needs,

The London naval treaty fails 10
bring parity to the American naval feet
and fails to stop the race of naval
armaments, Senator McKellar, Demo-
crat, Of Tennessee. declared in a radio
address last night in a reply to a speech
delivered over the air recently bv Sena-
tor Reed, Republican. of Pennsylvania.
Senator Mcclellan insisted that under
the agreement, I'VE are put to tre-
mendous disadvantage in protecting our
What is the economic result of this
agreement" asked the Tennessean.
AT most. our Navy will be able to pro
tect our trade along the East coast OF
NoIIn america to line running north
zuela. W
Would Limit Protection.
In other words, If the agreement
goes through we can protect our trade
IN tne North Atlantic and in the Cult
oL Mexico and In the Caribbean Sea and
the Pacific coast of America and that
is all we can do, we can not protect oIIr
Trace IN the Far East, or In the Atlantic
otner tnan the small portion of IL above
LeIerred 10, and we can not protect II
in the Indian Ocean" E0'N'' "
-. Inc address was delivered over a ma
uonWlde hookup of the National Broad
caStlng co. Senator Mcclellan took up
1. SenaUor REEDS address delivered last
week point by point
Ihe TennesSeean summed In III,
points Of objection: P o
- instead of providing for naritv
nrlmtul and running over as Mr. Mac,
uonald declared, 1t provided for a great
inequality in naval fleets e'ea'
provides for enormous nave,
ouliolng by America, by Great Britain
and by Japan, '''"ilA
1t will impose tax burdens on III.
Amerlcan people of more than a billion
Holds Britain Favored.
1t prohibits America from buiIdinv
oefore 1885 more than fifteen IN NM
ton S-inch cruisers, when her resnonsi-
Die naval experts, with one or two ex-
ceptlons appointed by Mr.. Hoover. All
aeclare that those ships and guns are
4or the best defense of America.
IL requires us to build ships OF A
kind and size that Great Britain is will
ing for us to build. It prohibits America
from building the kind and size of ShinS
ana guns that America thinks is best
for her own defense.
There is no way in the world for
America without naval bases to obtain
parity with Great Britain in cruiser
strength except to have the larger
ships and guns, and 1t Is doubtful II it
can be gotten that way.
1T deprives America of the right and
power to build a Navy that will defend
American possessions in the Far East.
notably the Philippine Islands. All Of
our experts agree that we cannot de-
tend the Philippine Islands on the basis
of this treaty.
ut prevents America from defending
the greater part Of our foreign trade
on the high seas. Yet it leaves Great
Britain the power to protect her COM
merce practically everywhere. 1t also
gives to Great Britain the power to put
economic pressure on America equiva-
lent to business ruin.
Constitution Cited.
again. our sea-borne commerce is
nearly $4,000 100000 in value every
year and yet we deprive ourselves by
this treaty of the right and power to
defend that enormous commerce wher-
ever 1t may go.
ut does not provide for the freedom
OF the seas and 1t denies TO us the power
to maintain that freedom for ourselves
And yet it leaves to Great Britain the
pOWCA w 1ACCNOIl VI seas 1OI IlbI-
self. 1t will be remembered that even
during the World War when we were
fighting side by side with Great Britain
she not only claimed, but exercised, the
right to overhaul American ships when
she believed their cargoes were going
even indirectly to her enemies, and to
take those cargoes into port and use
them.
Again, the Constitution Of the United
States specifically grants to the two
Houses of Congress the duty to provide
and maintain a Navy That authority
is plenary in the Congress. Nowhere in
that great instrument does it give the
right to the Executive and the Senate
to limit that power. And yet, if this
treaty goes through, the Congress will
be deprived of its right to build and
maintain the kind Of Navy that would
be to Americas defense, and will be re-
quired to build the kind of Navy that
Great Britain and Japan want"