Washington, Jan. 19.
Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, said to-day he was YE uninformed about the report which arose from the statement of a French spokesman, that Britain, France and the United States were studying the possibility of removing treaty limitations on the s e of capital warships to meet the challenge of New Japanese construction, The Navy Department declined to comment.
a letter to Rear Admiral Reginald B. Belknap, retired, Commander in Chief of the Military Order of the World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt to-day expressed the hope that troubled world conditions "will serve to focus the attention of our people on their own national defences." hose Navy ill Not Start
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