BOBAH ON PARITY
NO USE FOR RIVAL RODNEY WASHINGTON, 12th February. Exclaiming "Oh, the parity question! What crimes are to be committed in thy name'?" Senator Borah dojiverod his first public utterauco on the London parley, attacking the American proposal to build another American battleship. "If parity can bo had by a reduction, lam for parity. If it can be had only by spending millions on the kind of ships which never in all human probability will be used, then I feel no interest in parity. I see no justification for our building or claiming tho right to build one battleship. What possiblo justification can there be for expending largo sums of money in building another battleship—a. ship which some of the brightest minds of the naval world have declared to bo obsolete? Can any reasonable porßon contemplate, the burden which all peoples arc now carrying due to armaments — realise the weight now resting upon the taxpayers in "very civilised country in the world —then contemplate the useless waste of money in building a battleship in the name of parity."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 9
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180BOBAH ON PARITY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 9
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