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Show France Fixes Arms Policy Geneva The French draft of a general gen-eral treaty for the limitation of armaments arma-ments made public shows a continuation continua-tion of the French insistence of a system sys-tem of total naval tonnage in any allotments al-lotments of naval strength, instead of the splitting up of tonnage by categories cate-gories of warships as advocated by the United States and Great Britain. The French draft makes it clear that each power should be free to distribute its total tonnage in the type of warship best suited to its national interests, defense and security. A subsequent naval clause, which is believed to be a friendly allusion to the projected Cool-idge Cool-idge three-power conference, stipulates stipu-lates that the treaty does not nullify conventions previously signed by separate sep-arate nations. |