President's Own Wording of Policy Adopted Washington, Mar. 4, President Roosevelt personally recommended to the House Naval Affairs Committee that its declara~ tion on American naval polley.include the statement that the United States proposed to "protect our commerce and citizens abroad," the United Press learned here to-day.
The declaration of polley in the Vinson Naval Bill was adopted by the Committee yesterday by overwhelming vote. Mr. Carl Vinson, Democrat of Georgia and author of the naval expansion bill, told members of the Committee that the words were the President's own, thereby resisting a strong effort to change the language of the statement, it was learned.
The statement of policy adopted by the Committee reads in part: "It Is declared to be the funda: mental naval polley of the United States to maintain a Navy of suff cient strength to guarantee national security, not for aggression, but to guard continental United' States through affirming naval protection the coast line on both oceans tone and the same time, and protect the Panama Conal, Alaska, Mawail and insular possessions and protect our commerce and citizens abroad to insure national. integrity and sup port national policies."
The statement defines, "protection" fas means of defence "to keep any potential enemy hundreds of miles from the continental limits of th United States."
The declaration would empower the President to suspend whatever part of naval "construction found necessary to hold the fleet within the limus of any future international treaty.—United Press,
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