International Appeal for Restriction of Aerial Expansion by British Minister London, Dee. 16, An international appeal to restrict aerial expansion was implied in a speech by Sir Samuel Hoare, Secret-
West London, in which he declared that while he was able to recommend postponement of certain items of expenditure, the British programme must depend upon the attitude of other governments.
He said that notwithstand Britain's notorious inferiority as compared with continental nations, also her peculiar vulnerability from the air, Britain was prepared as a result of Locarno to delay her programme to some extent in the hope that other countries would follow her example and enable their respective governments to avoid a race in armaments in. the future, which would be far more disastrous than any in the past.—Reuter,
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