Abstract

Naval Politics at London

The British situation on the eve of the conference is an interesting and unusual one. One might have anticipated cries from the Conservative element of the opposition to the effect that the defenses of the country were being endangered by the Labor Government. The public seems to have seized pretty clearly the point that if there is to be any real reduction of armaments at all as the result of this conference, of a kind, that is, which will relieve the taxpayer or achieve a general appeasement of fears, then it can only come about through the virtual abolition of the big fighting ship, either by immediate scrapping, which is rather too much to hope, or by an agreement not to replace ships over 10,000 tons when their normal term of life expires.