France Wants Limits on Big Battleships Retained Washington, Feb. 18.
Wellinformed circles reveal that the naval conversations between London, Washington and Paris have uncovered differences in the attitude of Great Britain and the United States and that of France.
While Great Britain and the United States would like to conserve only those clauses of the treaty of 1996 regarding the exchange of information, France would like to maintain the limitation of battleships to 35,- 000 tons; France argues that to abandon all restrictions would free the Reich and the U.S.S.R. from a reason to respect the limitations provided for by their bilateral accords with Great Britain, Then if the Reich, the U.S.S.R. and Italy constructed new types of ships, they would oblige France to amplify her programme of naval constructions, which remains inferior to those of the Reich and Italy,—Havas,
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