Washington, Feb. 14, Mr. F. A, Britten of the "House of Representatives Naval Committee declared to-day after an interview with President Coolidge that the President was hopeful that Congress would pass the $740,000,000 naval building programme without any material chai Sno of the mort ngnificant points of their discussion, Mr. Britten said, was President Coolidge's eagerness that no time-limit should be placed on the construction programme but that this should be left to the discretion of the President.. Dir.
Britten now supports this view.
Many well-informed persons. be-Yeve that, while obliged somehow to pacify the Republican "Big Navy" group, the President docs not wish to carry through such a gigantic programme, but wishes to use it as a weapon of dialectical persuasion at the next disarmament
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