AMERICAN PLAN
(Press Assn.—
HOOVER SUBMITS PROPOSALS - FOR DRASTIC CUTS IN • ARMAMENTS. - - : REDUCTION OF ONE-THIRD
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WASHINGTON, Thursday. The President (Mr. H.- C. Hoover) in a stidden and dramatic antiouncement to-day pro- - posed principles for reducing the arms of the entirer world by nearly one-third. The President read to-a small group of newsoapermert a statement sayinig: — "The time has- cbme« when. we should cut througli the brush-, and adopt an arms. redttction calculated to saye between- : 10,000,0*00,000 ; dollars and 15, 000, 000, *000 dollars during the next ten years." Mr. Hoover proposed: — The abolition of all tanks, chemical warfare, and large mobile guns. A reduction of one-third in the strength of all land armies over and above - the so-called police component;- • ^ The abolition of all bombing planes; the total prohibition of all bombardment from the air; The reduction of the treaty ton.nage of aircraft carriers and cruisers, destroyers by one fourth. and submarines by one third, with no nation having more than 35,000 tons of subriiersible craft. The reduction in the treaty number and tonnage^of all hattleships by one-third.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 259, 24 June 1932, Page 5
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