DISARMAMENT.
BRITISH PROPOSAL REJECTED., (UNITED PEES 8 ASSOCIATION—B* ELXCTBIC • TELEGRAPH —COPYBIC^HT.) ■GENEVA, Marclr 14. Great Britain unsuccessfully sought in Article 20 of the draft of the Disarmament Convention to exclude the consideration of warships of one Power being built by another. Japan# France, and .the United States. \ vigorously opposed this proposal, emphasising that such vessels cotud b® . confiscated by the builders in wartime, upsetting tiie present agreed navy proportions (an obvious allusionto Great Britain over the Turkish and • Chilean battleships* in 1914).
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20497, 16 March 1932, Page 11
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