Evening star., 1943-10-28
Navy Day Speakers
Warn Nation Against
Disarming After War

Navy Day speakers throughout the
Nation yesterday coupled plea for
our maintenance of the worlds
largest feet after the war with a
warning that strikes must not be
permitted to retard wartime pro-
duction of ships and planes.
To confront the rest of the world
undivided, Secretary of the Navy
Knox, in speech at Philadelphia
last night, suggested to leaders OF
the Democratic and Republican
parties the adoption of sub
stantially Identical declaration on
international policy" in their plat
forms. Such an agreement. he
added. might equip us with what
We have never had-continuity of
foreign policy"
High lights of various Navy Day
speeches follow:
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs,
chief of naval personnel. at Chicago: !:
The men who are fighting in our
new Navy are determined that the
American people will not scrap ships
in the future. The mission of the
Navy is to defend this Nation. its
people and its institutions against
aggression"
Must Play Larger Part.
Rear Admiral w. H. P. Blandy,
Navy chief of ordnance, at Atlanta ::
Two wars in a generation are
SUFFICIENT proof that America must
play a larger part in world affairs
after the close of the war. America
Is no longer immune by choice. We
are in world politics to stay, whether
, those politics are to be operated
within the bounds of international
accord or on the basis OF the law
of the jungle"
Josephus Daniels, former Secre-
tary of the Navy. at Raleigh, n. c.:
I'VE have built the largest Navy
In the world and have highly re-
solved never again to be guilty of
the folly of scrapping it. Our ac-
ton following the last war was STU
pid blindness"
Rear Admiral G. D. Murray, for
mer commander of the carrier En-
terprise, at Chicago:
Men who have faced death and
who are still face to face with
death-men who have seen their
shipmates blown into eternity-these
men have definite feeling that
somewhere, somehow, something is
wrong when the word strike ap-
pears concerning any industry vital
to the successful conduct of the
war in which they are playing so
vital role
Must Meet Obligations.
Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, at Bal
timore:
I'VE must be willing and able to
exert sufficient force. If need be, to
support and make effective the OBJ
legations which we have assumed
under our national foreign policy
We must have available the naval
forces with which We can, when
necessity demands, police the high
ways of the world"
Admiral William J. Leahy. chief
of staff to President Roosevelt, at
Richmond, Va:
The United States Navy is now
the most powerful one on earth.
Through a miraculous performance
Of sacrifice by the whole of America,
our power has been multiplied, we
are taking the offensive on all the
battlefronts, and the jubilation of
our enemies has turned to fear
1T is for all the people of the
United States to decide whether or
not we shall have repetition of our
altruistic gesture of 1921 when we
volunteered to destroy our finest
warships for an illusory notion that
human nature can be changed by
kind words, hope and signed
paper
u. S. Sole Island Power"
Rear Admiral C. M. Cooke. jr.,
Navy chief of plans, at Portsmouth,
Va:
"It seems certain that the armed
power of the United States must be
used after. as well as during, the
war is giving effect to our policies.
We are now the only purely island
power in a strategic sense. With
the development of the air arm,
Great Britain and Japan no longer
are island powers in the strategic
concept of past centuries, during
which they were immune from at
tack except sea-borne Or sea-
transported attack"
Addressing the Navy League din
ner at the MayfloWer Hotel last
night. Eric A. Johnston, president of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, urged the country's leader
ship to assume our share of the
responsibility for world order" add
ing, Never again shall America be
caught with her defenses down"
A Navy Day dinner was held by
the District Chapter of the Naval
Reserve Officers Association last
night at the Army Navy Country
Club
Comdr. Leroy C. Simpler. COM
mander of the Fighting Squad
ron s. which shot down a num-
Der of japanese planes, and 1t
Comdr. T. P. O'Connell, veteran of
IL naval battles in the South Pa
cific, told of their experiences In
combat.
1t. Comdr. T. D. Gatchel, presi-
dent. presided.