HOOVER SERVES NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 7

HOOVER SERVES NOTICE

IP GENEVA FAILS

U.S. WILL1 BUILD TO LIMIT,

■ WASHINGTON, 26th October. Serving notices on the world that this Government considerj a reduction of land armaments a prerequisite to further naval ' reductions, President Hoover to-day took occasion in connection with the celebration of Na-ny Day to-morrow to issue a statement making, known the Government's attitude toward disarmament.

It is also .regarded as. another attempt to galvanise the Geneva negotiations into action.- He said that failure of these negotiations would compel the United States 'to build a ■navy to full Treaty strength.' I "This administration," he said, "has spared no reasonable effort to bring about agreement between all nations upon, a reduction of anna on the ratios agreed upon at the London Conference. Our patience in these1 negotiations has never for. a mdnient jeopardised the safety of the "United States.

.: "These efforts are making progress: If these efforts finally fail we shall be compelled, by reason of the disturbed conditions prevailing throughout the world and the necessity of protecting American commerce, to build a navy to the full strength ■ provided by the London Agreement—equal to that of the most powerful navy in the world. "I need scarcely suggest that vast expenditures would be involved by this necessity, or stress the blow it would deal to one of the most eheris-hed aspirations of our people." ■ '