ADMIRAL'S ATTACK
AMERICA AND NAVAL TREATY
BUILDING OF CRUISERS
WASHINGTON, March 30,
The Navy Department today stated that the cruiser provisions of the new London Naval Treaty were perfectly satisfactory to America, as an answer to a published attack by Rear-Admiral Stirling, whose "intransigeant" advocacy of 10,000-ton cruisers was said to represent "not even a constructive minority in the navy."
Rear-Admiral Stirling's attack was seen as an implication of bad faith on the part of his superior, Admiral Standley, but disciplinary action is unlikely, as Rear-Admiral Stirling will retire on Wednesday, having reached the age limit. His view is that the agreement not to build 10,000-ton cruisers during the next six years represents an American abandonment of a vital position to the advantage of Britain.
Officials indicated, however, that the General Board of the American Navy, which formerly advocated 10,000-ton cruisers, had now changed its opinion and after 1939 attention was likely to turn to the building of modern destroyers and submarines.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 11
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