New York, Jan. 25.
President Coolidge's statement yesterday that there is no reason Why anyone should take seriously the statements of American naval officers predicting war between the United States and her competitors in commerce, is featured in the press as a very apt rebuke to Rear-Admiral Plunkett, Commandant of the New York Navy Yard, to whom attributed a remark that the United States is nearer war to-day than ever before, because she is pursuing a competitive trade policy and crowding other nations into the background.
The New York "World," in the course of an editorial, says: "There is a weary worldly horse-sense about the rebuke more devastating than indigation, President Cool-edge pours the leiest bucket of cold water down the spine of Jingoism that has been poured for long time."—Reuter,
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