The United Press to-day learned that: assurance can be given from most reliable sources that the United States delegation is going to the Five-Power Naval Limitation Conference: moved by a desire to reduce armament. at the expense, if necessary, of alienating the "big navy" group in America, Alxeady the "big navy" advocates have been renewing their activity, which is likely to continue throughout the conference.
President Hoover and Col. Henry L, Stimson, as head of the United States delegation, have already been subjected to pressure here on behalf of a larger American navy.
Admiral Fiske, one of the most vociferous of the "big navy men", through the press accuses President Hoover of having committed a major mistake because he named no naval officers among the delegates.
Other sources, meanwhile, cite the failure of the Geneva Conference [which was conducted by professional naval men, and congratulate the administration because in this instance it appointed civil Democratic Representatives Congress are supporting President Hoover and declaring that this procedure in backing a Republican President is proper in view of the sorry mess at Gene a and the unsatisfactory results of the original Washington meeting.
Colonel Stimson is resting at his country home in the suburbs, and fenjeying @utdoor exercise on the golf course, under physicians' orders to relax and will remain undisturbed for as long as possible before proceeding to London. He has recently recovered from a severe cold which taxed his strength—United Press-
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