Archive Report
Archive Report
In a special message to Congress, February 10, President Coolidge announced that he had invited France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan to empower their delegates to the forthcoming meeting of the Preparatory Commission for Disarmament at Geneva to negotiate and conclude agreements for the further limitation of naval armaments, supplementing the Washington Naval Treaty and including the classes of vessels not covered by that treaty. The President stated that this would not mean a separate conference, but that the suggested negotiations should be carried on in conjunction with the sittings of the Preparatory Commission and should prove of practical assistance in the accomplishment of the Commission's general aims.
“Pending the formulation of a plan for a general disarmament conference,” the President said, “I believe that ...