FRANCE: No Navy at All

Senator Gustave de Kerguezec, President of the Naval Committee in the French Senate: " I guarantee in the name of the French Parliament that France will suppress her entire fleet if the other powers will do like- wise." This statement was received in Washington as so much verbiage. With the Washington Limitation ot Naval Armament Treaty still gratified, critics point out that it is indeed a strange moment to make such a suggestion—considering that the limitations agreed to have not been carried into effect.

M Baiberti, Minister of Marine, says that " France...

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