THE AMERICAN NAVY
BUILDING PROGRAMME. PROTEST FROM THE QUAKERS. (Prepp Association—Bv Telegraph— Oopyngnt WASHINGTON, February 9. (Received Feb. 10, at 8 p.m.) Representatives of 100,000 Quakers saw President Coolidge and protested against the proposed naval programme on the ground that it would gravely imperil American relations with other nations, particularly Britain, and threaten the peace of the world. Admiral Magruder, addressing an Atlantic City (New Jersey) club, said that some of the money which it was proposed to spend for the expansion of the navy should be used to develop the merchant marine “so that we would have something for the navy to protect.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20330, 11 February 1928, Page 11
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