AMERICAN NAVY
RECORD APPROPRIATION
THE| EXPANSION PROGRAMME
|45,00q-TON SHI£S
(By Tfftograph—Press Association— Copyright^,
(Received May 19, 10.30 a.m.), i ' ■■■'■'
1 WASHINGTON, May 18. The; Senate passed a recordbreakikig Naval Appropriation Bill for 753,420,241 dollars to provide funds 'for the naval expansion pro* gramnjie.
A pi yd vision is included under which the Nas^y Department is forbidden to purchase: Argentinian tinned beef. President Roosevelt' protested .against the itenin, pointing out that the Argentinian product was better and cheape* than thra American.
Senators Borah and Vandenberg unsuccessfitillly attempted to kill the provision for the building of two 45,000----ton ship p. Senator Borah expressed the belrfel! that Japan was not building suchi; battleships, and said: "This programme was started by Britain with thejp knowledge of the United States."
Senator'? Walsh pointed out that Britain -\^as building battleships of 42,500 toi^s because she knew that Japan -\\ias exceeding the 35,000 ton limit.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19390519.2.76
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 116, 19 May 1939, Page 9
Word Count
148AMERICAN NAVY Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 116, 19 May 1939, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in