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Herbert Hoover: “The United States scraps three battleships, the British five, and Japan one, and postpones the enormous expenditure for…”

On the recordJune 12, 1930
The United States scraps three battleships, the British five, and Japan one, and postpones the enormous expenditure for renewals under the Washington Treaty until after 1936.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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