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HOOVER STILL HAS HOPES
STABILISATION PROGRAMME
WASHINGTON, 16th February.
"With dispatches from London indicating tha.t as the Conference approaches its end the three main hopes —namely, the reduction of tonnage, the abolition of submarines, and the elimination of battleships—have been disappointed to tho extent "that the statesmen have now realised that the chief results will be somo of tho finest naval construction programmes the world has yet seen," President Hoover and the Administration, nevertheless, are not downcast nor fearful of the results. The President feels that the Conference outlook is as favourable as could be expected.
It is felt that the prospective treaty will provide for little or no immediate reduction by scrapping except of battleships, and that the agreement will consist of a "stabilisation programme" for the navies of the world based on the limitation of categories and replacements, and thus will lead to an actual reduction at the next naval conference, now tentatively projected for 1935.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 9
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