NAVAL POLICY
BRITISH REDUCTIONS
RISE IN OTHER COUNTRIES
WISDOM QUESTIONED
(British Official Wireless.) (Eeceived 10th February, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Bth February. The First Lord of the" Admiralty, Mr. A. ■V. Alexander, in a speech at Newcastle, discussed Britain's attitudo to the naval work of the future. "We have pleaded for disarmament. I think you can go too quickly in this matter, unless you can get other countries in Europe to go just as quickly. You find a steady decline in our naval expenditure and a steady rise hi almost every o.ther countryji and you begin. to ask whether it is a sane policy." i He did not want any peacelover , to think that he did not • favour further I disarmament, but it was a mistake to go on with a policy which meant constant fluctuation. He advocated a stabilisation of naval rating between ono country and another. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 9
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147NAVAL POLICY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 9
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