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BRITAIN’S SUSPENSION OF CONSTRUCTION CRUISERS DECLARED TO BE “MYTHICAL SHIPS’ 5, Australian Press Association. (Rec. July 29, 8.15 p.m.) New York, July 28. Representative Britten, Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Naval Affairs Committee, prior to leaving for Europe, stated that the two cruisers, the construction of which Mr. MacDonald had ordered to be suspended, were merely "mythical ships intended only by far-sighted British diplomacy for trading purposes, and we have grabbed the bait.” He insisted that President Hoover had no right to suspend the cruiser construction undpr the present circumstances, and stated, “I am sure that no one will say we are yet in agreement with Britain. On the contrary, we are very far from it.” He maintained that England had no intention of building the cruisers the construction of which had been suspended. “As in the Washington Conference, we have been the goat, and British diplomacy is laughing up its sleeve.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 260, 30 July 1929, Page 11
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155NAVAL QUESTION Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 260, 30 July 1929, Page 11
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