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Ever since the return to Europe last month of President Roosevelt's grey and gracious little disarmament dickerer, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Germany has been pressed by the U. S., Britain, France and Italy to enter a four-year convention for European armament control (TIME, Oct. 2). In effect a standstill pact, this convention would bind each power not to up its armaments before 1938, would create an international inspection board to see that all nations were keeping their pledges, would provide for eventual parity of armaments between Germany and France, but not until after the four...
...observations" on this proposed convention last week in a long code cablegram from the Wilhelmstrasse. Calling his limousine he sped to Whitehall, marched into the office of tall, frigid British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and told him that Germany cannot wait until 1938 before beginning to achieve armament equality with France. At the very least, in Chancellor Hitler's view, the Fatherland should at once be allowed to have "samples" of all armaments now denied her by the Treaty of Versailles; big guns, tanks, battle planes. Finally, even if a four-year standstill convention (including "samples" for Germany...
...from a grey and choppy sea last week and dropped anchor in Tokyo Bay. Anchored in rows, the armada covered 36 square miles. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down one lane of warships and up another went the onetime battle cruiser Hiyei (now a passenger ship), stripped of her armament, but with the Imperial Standard (a gold chrysanthemum on a scarlet field) floating from her truck. Every man on every ship stood rigid at attention, for on the Hiyei's bridge was a tiny sacred figure, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito...
...Works Corp.-two 1,500-ton destroyers at $3,429,000 each. To Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-two 1,500-ton destroyers at $3,410,800 each. To United Dry Docks, Inc.-two 1,500-ton destroyers at $3,400,000 each. The contract prices did not include armament or special fittings. After bids were opened fortnight ago, Florida's bumbling Senator Trammell, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, thought he smelled a rat. In a letter to President Roosevelt recommending rejection of all cruiser bids, he charged the shipbuilders with collusion, accused them of protecting one another...
...here was an achievement of the White House conferences. Foreign oracles quickly interpreted this statement as a bargain between M. Herriot and President Roosevelt that the U. S. was willing to abandon its traditional Isolation and help the eternal French cry for Security in turn for real reduction in armaments and armament expenditures. That was not the only fruit of the Washington conversations to appear in Geneva. Two days later Mr. Davis backed France and Britain to the full against German requests for "sample" tanks and siege guns, and let correspondents understand that this too was a Roosevelt-Hcrriot-MacDonald...