The Secretary of Navy pointed out that oceans were a safeguard to America only if America were able to control them, He asserted that America had been able to control them in the past largely because of the friendly British Navy.
"One of the factors which gave us the opportunity to develop to what we are now is in deadly peril and that peril, which threatens the British Navy, is a peril to you and me:" he emphasized.
"There is not a man or woman within sound, of my voice to whom the destruction of British sea-power in the Atlantic fs not a danger, and a danger greater than you can imagine and that is why those of us familiar with the situation appreciate beyond power of expression the dangers in which we live.
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