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The Coming Naval Conference On Monday the Foreign Office sent

invitations to France, Italy and Japan to take part in a Naval Con- ference in London next January. The intention is that this Conference should take the place of the Conference of 1932 which was to have been the sequel to the Wash- ington Conference. Both Great Britain and America have been at constant pains to make it clear to Italy, France and Japan that the Anglo-American arrangement depends upon an all-round agreement. It was highly necessary to insist upon this. If it had not been done France and Italy—we omit Japan in this connexion-- would have had an adequate cause for suspicion.

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