Navy Supplementary Estimate, 1936.

Part of Orders of the Day — Supply. – in the House of Commons at on 4 May 1936.

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Lord STANLEY:

This has nothing to do with any later Treaty; this is entirely according to the terms of the Treaty which the right hon. Gentleman himself signed, under which we are definitely limited by the end of this year to certain tonnage under the two categories. We have to get down to that limit. It has nothing whatever to do with the question of increasing in the future to 70 cruisers.