League stresses the reasons why the Navy
must be ever ready, ever alert for instant
action whether such action may call for dip-
lomacy, humanity or force; reasons why, in
the final analysis, our Navy must be inferior
to no other Navy in the world.

Our people may know much of the vic-
torious Navy of war times, but little of its
share in the victories of peace; of the prestige
that its armed strength gives to our statesmen
in their conduct of diplomacy; of the protec-
tion it gives to our exports which we cannot
consume and must market abroad; of the
insurance that it gives the entire people that
this vast business by which we live shall not
collapse in time of war; and of the great
value of the Navy as an industrial asset.
The Navy has played no small part in the
progress of America to its present state of
influence, and the Navy League emphasizes
this unity with every interest and activity of
the national life.

In all matters having to do with national
efficiency, the Navy League will be found on
the side of progress. While the primary pur-
pose of the League is to work for a strong and
efficient Navy as our first line of defense, we
cannot in the interests of national peace, over-
look other elements that make for prepared-
ness, and which have some relation to naval
matters,

The Navy League rejects the fatuity of dis-
armament by example. Living in a world of
reality, the League would foster the instru-
ment of its security while looking forward to
the realization of the ideal not yet attained
when the only security needed by mankind
shall rest in the hearts and minds of men and
nations.