DISARMAMENT
WHERE BRITAIN STANDS,
FNWISE RAPIDITY,
OTHERS NOT IN LINE
(British Official Wireless.) ( Received IAT) p.m.) RFOBY, February !•
Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of 1 lie Admiralty, in a speer-h at Newcastle, dismissed Britain’s attitude In tin* naval work of the future. He
said; “We '.have pleaded for disarmament I think you can go too quieklv in this inntter unless you can get wilier countries in Furope to go Jnsl as (jiiirkly.
“Von find a steady dor-lino in our naval expenditure and a steady rise in almost everv other country, and you Login to ask whether it is a sane policy. ’ ’ He did not want any peace lover to think he did not favour further disarmament, ’lint it was a mistake to go on with a policy which meant conslant llnctnntlon, lie advocated the stabilisation of nav! ratine; between eiu- countiv and another.
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Northern Advocate, 11 February 1931, Page 3
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