BILL OPPOSED
AMERICAN NAVAL PLANS. ; PROVISION OF BATTLESHIPS. " V ■>’- , I \ ■ WORLD CONFERENCE DESIRED.; . _ , . . < 4 '\ - V.- « I t (United Pre§s Association—Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 10.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 21. The opponents of the Naval Bill, involving 553,000,000 dollars, scheduled to be passed to-day. have planned the most forcible opposition when President Roosevelt later, asks for additional warships. There is already opposition to the provision for two new battleships in to-day’s Bill, while it is planned to induce the House of Representatives to ask President Roosevelt to call a world naval disarmament conference, hut there is scant chance of success.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 87, 22 January 1938, Page 5
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