NAVAL ARMAMENTS
BRITAIN FALLING INTO LINE RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME PLANNED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September *7. .The ‘Daily Mail’s’ diplomatic correspondent says;“ Britain will shortly inform the United ‘ States and other Washington signatories of her intention to -embark on a big naval programme, Ministers having decided, in view of naval rearmament elsewhere, that Britain will be unable to fulfil her Imperial responsibilities unless the Navy is modernised without delay. Experts during recent months have been considering the construction programme, but the Cabinet postponed a decision hoping to arrange a conference in the autumn to discuss naval .limitation, which has now been abandoned. It is expected that the new programme will be announced soon after the assembly of Parliament in October. Members of the Cabinet are increasingly favouring * national defence loan to meet naval developments, a further expansion of the Air Force, and modernisation of the Army,” ' ’•
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Evening Star, Issue 22146, 28 September 1935, Page 17
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145NAVAL ARMAMENTS Evening Star, Issue 22146, 28 September 1935, Page 17
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