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"OUR SUPREMACY AT SEA . . . NATURALLY EXCITES SOME JEALOUSY" BALFOUR, ARTHUR JAMES. Two items, each Signed: Photograph * Typed Letter. The photograph, a postcard showing bust portrait of him. Signed in the blank lower margin. Correspondence side blank. 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches. The letter, to "Dr Carl[?] Alexander," claiming that there is little justification for suspecting that Great Britain would expand maritime power in a way that is contrary to the interests of the League of Nations, and suggesting that those who harbor suspicions are jealous of British power. 1 page, small 4to, personal stationery; short closed separation at horizontal fold. Np, nd; [London], 16 December 1918
". . . I presume that those who wish to curtail the maritime power of Great Britain do so on the ground that she may use that power not as a mandatory of the League of Nations, but for selfish ends. Historically, there seems little justification for the suspicion; and you and I know that it is without foundation. But our supremacy at sea, which this war has forced upon the attention of all mankind, naturally excites some jealousy."
