The Archive · 1934

Bigger Defence Budgets

London, June 27.

With hopes of a naval, conference in 1985 dwindling, the Cabinet met at Lam, and is understood to hav endorsed large increases in the naval and alr budgets. A smaller increase in the army budget was approved, according to information believed to reliable Preliminary naval hold here recently have reve such widely divergent views among the United States, Great Britain and Japan that serious doubts have arisen as to the practicability of attempting to hold a naval conference next year—United Press.

1935, Mr, Baldwin revealed that no de-' mand for parity had been submitted Japan, He was not prepared, he added, to give information as regards the course of the conversations, which were of a confidential nature—Reuter,

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