United States is impregnable comparatively normal life within her own boundaries, even if she were at war, "An enemy could only embarrass the United States," went on Mr. Pybus, "if the American Navy were not strong enough to defend its thousands of miles of const For that reason, further limitation of naval annas ment would not leave the United States in a position where her rational existence might be jeopardized by a strong enemy or combination of enemies. America can thus safely advocate the reduetion of fighting craft to the extreme minimum."
After then pointing out that Great Britain made a very generous ges: ture to. the world when abe voluntarily reduced her fleet from a two-power standard to a one-power standard at Washington, Pybus said that further reduction might easily tend to place Great Britain in a precarious, if not in dangerous, position. sideration of the other Powers," he "and should also command the
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