“ LAUGHING UP ITS SLEEVE.”
Attitude Of British Diplomacy. THROUGH AMERICAN EYES. (United Press Association —By Electric Tel egraoh—Copyright.) (Received July 29, 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 28. Representative Britten, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, prior to leaving for Europe, stated that the two cruisers, the construction of which Mr Ramsay Macdonald had ordered to be suspended, were merely “mythical ships, intended only by farsighted British diplomacy for trading purposes, and we have grabbed the bait.” He insisted that President Hoover had no right to suspend cruiser construction under the present circumstances, and stated: “I am sure no one will say we are yet in agreement with Britain. On the contrary, we are very far from it.” He maintained that England had no intention of building cruisers, the construction of which had been suspended. As in the Washington Conference, we have been “the goat,” and British diplomacy ia “laughing up its sleeve.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18330, 30 July 1929, Page 9
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