Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland. – in the House of Commons at on 2 May 1923.
I have no official information with regard to the alleged intention of the United States Government to use vessels of the United States navy for preventive work, but I hesitate to believe that a friendly Power would attack British ships on the high seas. If, however, British ships break United States laws within United States territorial waters, they naturally render themselves liable to any general measures of control which the United States Government may institute.