LONDON NAVAL TREATY
Approval by American Senate Expected (Received May 17, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, May 16. The Senate Naval’Affairs Committee to-day favourably reported on the London Treaty, and the chairman, Senator Pittman, announced that it would be placed before the House oh Monday, with every assurance that it would be passed without opposition. Mr. Norman Davis and Admiral Standley, the principal witnesses before the committee, both testified that there was nothing in the treaty inimical to American interests. T’ey admitted, however, that it was not what they bad hoped for, as it does not provide for quantitative limitation. BRITAIN AND RUSSIA Conversations to Open (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 15. It is expected that the naval conversations between Great Britain and Russia arising out of the Four-Power Agreement recently signed in London will be opened in the course of the next few days, but no date has yet been fixed. __________
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 9
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