The 1909 Agreement.
FIRST LORD’S STATEMENT. ADMIRALTY DID NOT FAIL. ii i [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press .Association.] (Received 10.10 a.m.) Loudon, July 15. In the House or Commons Mr Rowland Hunt (Unionist member for Shropshire), questioned Mr Churchill why the Admiralty failed to carry out the 1909 agreement. Mr Churchill referred Mr Hunt to his statement on introducing the estimates, and added that it was impossible to deal with important issues at question time. Mr Hunt asked whether Australia and New Zealand would not be driven to seek protection from another White race unless the agreements were fulfilled. Mr Churchill replied that he could not admit that, the Admiralty tailed to keep the agreements, any difference of opinion, it would be likely to alter the relationships.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 72, 16 July 1914, Page 5
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127The 1909 Agreement. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 72, 16 July 1914, Page 5
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