AMERICAN NAVAL PLANS
NEW BUILDING HINTED CONFERENCE CRITICISED CONGRESSMAN’S ATTACK fTSloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) WASHINGTON, March 1. A new battleship building programme for the United States was hinted by Mr. Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee to-day when he revealed .legislation providing for the modernisation of a number of vessels being held in abeyance pending the outcome of the London Naval Conference.
“If the life of a battleship is not going to be extended by the conference, then we will want to make replacements' instead of repairing and modernising our vessels,” he said.
Incidentally Representative Tinkham, one of the leading isolationists in Congress, to-day denounced the London Naval Conference as “an arena for European political intrigues and foreign military and Imperialistic ambitions,” and announced that he would introduce a resolution instructing the State Department immediately to recall the delegation from London.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18954, 3 March 1936, Page 5
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