Or $995,772,878 Asked Washington, Feb. 17.
The House of Representatives yesterday passed the record-breaking peacetime naval appropriations bill calling for $995,772,878 for the construction of dozens of additional warships and the fortification of a dozen strategic naval bases.
The House struck out the pr posal to appropriate funds specific: ly for the development of the harbour at Guam Island, only 1,500 miles scut of Yokohama, by the close vote of 213 to 114. No record vote w. taken. Supporters of the Guam harbour development item indicated they might call for a record vote later this week.
Most impartial observers believed reports that Tokyo looked with disfavour on the Guam proposal hai little influence in the vote. Some even said that defeat of the proposal would have been more decisive if such remarks had not been made.
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