§ Viscount CURZONasked the Prime Minister whether arrangements can be made for a squadron of the Royal Navy, of adequate size and importance to the occasion, to visit the United States of America, seeing that such a visit would be to the common interests of both nations?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIt is not the intention of the Admiralty to send a squadron of heavy ships to United States waters during this year. Urgent need for economy in fuel renders such a course inadmissible. I may add, that Vessels of the North America and West Indies Squadron have visited United States ports on several occasions during the past 18 months.