NAVY CUT

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1931, Page 5

NAVY CUT

AIR HOOVER’S ADVOCACY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright ) WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. President Hoover, in an emphatic re-statement of his Naval Policy, in recognition of “ Navy Day,” inverted that the United States nm-pt have a navy adequate only for protecion against invason, and adjusted to ihe minimum based upon the present day world outlook. He stated that to maintain greater forces is not only an economic injury to our people, but a threat against our neighbours. Perhaps with the purpose of offering amends to the Naval circles for the criticism which he directed against them for their opposing his economic programme, the President asserted that: “The United States Navy is manned by personnel and officers and men. never before excelled in our whole history.” But although he offered much oil for the troubled waters be suggested a retreat from his avowed policy of “rigid economy.” He said that it was the nation’s duty to strive for lowered world armaments and that extremists on neither side of the argument should not be permitted to interfere with the fulfilment thereof.