ABSTRACT
If Canada was faced by a dilemma, the United States was in a worse quandary. Here was a country at the political cross-roads with nothing to assist her but a dim feeling that she must take such unusual action that in the end it would constitute a clean break with the past and draw her towards uncharted seas and monstrous precipices. Committed to a vast expenditure in naval construction as a heritage from the war, she was still more emphatically committed by the will of the people to a new policy of peace and retrenchment. How were the two to be reconciled?
