NAVAL BUILDING.
BRITAIN TO EXCEED TREATY LIMITS. UNITED STATES APPROVAL ANTICIPATED. NOTE REACHES WASHINGTON. (Received Tuesday, 7.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 19. It is indicated that the State Department will not object to Britain increasing her destroyer tonnage or shifting tonnage in tRe cruiser classes. Britain’s formal notification of her intention to exceed the London Treaty limits has been received by mail from London. Mr. Cordell Hull (Secretary of State) has not yet replied to the Note, but the feeling is understood to be that Britain has a clear legal right to build more cruisers and destroyers if she believes her position to be endangered by competitive building. It is assumed here that technical steps bringing the escalator clause into operation probably will be taken by Britain after the position of the United States and Japan, has been officially determined.
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Wairarapa Age, 20 May 1936, Page 5
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