Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion the second will constitute a sounder yard-stick of success than the first. The Conference will and should accomplish something under both heads. It will almost certainly arrange for at least a temporary reduction in naval expenditures by Japan, Great Britain, the United States. A failure in this respect might well be fatal to President Harding, It would disappoint the public and damage the prestige of the administration to such an extent that the American delegation will avoid it at any cost. The Conference is also likely to draw up a form of words about the policy of foreign...
...causes of international fear, hostility and disorder in the Pacific. Its business is to provide for the future protection of China by an agreement among the Pacific Powers which will have as its chief purpose the building up of a strong and self-supporting China. If it can accomplish this result, a substantial part of the existing naval armament would become unnecessary. It would then be easy to limit navies and far harder in the future to increase them. If it cannot accomplish this result any limitation of armament achieved by the coming Conference would be precarious. In a disorderly...
...meeting because be thought that Harvard opinion did not count for much is shutting his eyes to facts. When not only American institutions, but those in England also, are joining together for one purpose, the chances are that their enthusiasm and intelligent attitude towards the problem of armaments will accomplish a good deal. Another mass meeting, a bigger crowd, and plenty of discussion are now in order...
There exists in the mind of the public a great deal of confusion about the official objects which the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament is called to accomplish and about the proper measure of its success or failure. This confusion is not entirely the public's fault. It is born of an underlying infirmity of purpose in the plans of the administration. The President during the campaign incurred a clear obligation to move in the direction of peace through international agreement, and for that purpose he was bound to summon a conference of the Allied and Associated Powers...
...relations with China, the article which Philander Knox amplified when he proposed the neutralization of the Manchurian Railways, and the article which Woodrow Wilson repudiated when he consented to the cession of Shantung to Japan. An international agreement which initiated a promising settlement of the problem of China would accomplish as much for the future peace of the world as would a healing of the quarrel between France and Germany, and it would remove one of the most formidable obstacles to the limitation of naval armaments. For it is the aggressive policy of Japan in China, operating under the cover...