Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-24 | Page 2 | Sen. King Opposes More Battleships

SEN. KING OPPOSES MORE BATTLESHIPS VASHlGTON, F b. 24. Pursuant Pursu-ant e by the United States of Its naval l.ulldlnp program Will offer "great, if not Insuperable, obstacles." to tho consummation of an International agreement for disarmament. Senator King, Democrat. Utah, declared in a minority report filed on the Borah resolution directing- the Fenaic na il committee to report on the advisability advisabil-ity of suspending naval construction for six months. Taking issue with the majority apparently ap-parently held the opinion that the "war taught no lesson except that savagery and sanguinary struggle arc eternal, and the moral are too feelde to establish Justice and usher In righteousness right-eousness and peace." The majority opinion that the battleships bat-tleships still remain the bafekbonS of naval power and that any suspension of major ship construction would place this nation at a disadvantage, Si-nat.jr KlriA . aid. was based solely on views of the navy general board whleh. he said showed a "slavish ad-1 herence to the past." and a total dls-! regard of the war's leSSOUS as to the' probable future development of air-1 cra-ft and submarines. The report ad-1 vocated completion of flvo battleships, and one battli cruiser of the 1916 program and suspension of building on eleven other major ships.