NAVAL DISARMAMENT
MR GIBSON’S STATEMENT. BRITAIN’S HEARTY AGREEMENT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON. April 25. (Received April 26, at 5.5 p.m.) In a broadcast speech from Bristol tonight Mr Baldwin said: “ You have heard the important declaration which Mr Gibson made at Geneva on behalf of the United States Government. Mr Gibson declares that his Government’s purpose is to secure not merely the limitation but the reduction of armaments, and also it desires that the reductions should be ap plied not to this or that class of war vessel only, but every class. On behalf of his Majesty Government I make the same declaration. This is, and has beta throughout, our purpose and desire. We will co-operate cordially with the United States in order to secure its general acceptance.”—Australian Press Association—United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 13
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