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AMERICAN SEA CHIEF INSISTENT “A PATRIOTIC DUTY” By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received 10.16 a.m. WASHINGTON, Wed. Admiral C. F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operation, testified further before the House Naval Committee. He stated that he was trying to perform a patriotic duty when he based the naval pro- . gramme submitted to Congress on that which Britain would have in 1936, when its proposed programme would be completed. Members of the committee insisted that the large programme grew from the failure of the Geneva Conference. Mr. J. V. McClintic, Democrat, declared that 90 per cent, of the people of the United States believed this. Admiral Hughes replied: “I am one of the other 10 per cent.” Mr, F. M. Vinson, Democrat, elicited that the proposed programme would give the United States a larger tonnage than would have been permitted had the tonnage limitation proposed by the United States at Geneva been accepted. Mr. Vinson asked: “The failure at the Geneva Conference necessarily means a programme of this magnitude then?” Admiral Hughes replied: “Yes. If ,1 accept your point of view.”—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 11
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184BIG NAVY IDEA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 11
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