Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1931, Volume I

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The British Embassy to the Department of State⁴⁴

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His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom consider that the only practical way of discussing naval disarmament generally is to assume that, so far as parties to Part 3 of London Naval Treaty are concerned, the figures to be inserted in the disarmament convention will be in accordance with the limitations already agreed at the Washington and London Naval Conferences and that the consequently resulting convention will be coterminous with the Washington and London Naval treaties.

They would be glad to learn whether this view is shared by United States Government.

44. Handed to the Under Secretary of State by the British Ambassador on December 5, 1931.