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...Cost $36,393,011, upkeep $2,104,185 per year, speed 23 knots, major weapons nine 16-in. guns, armament sufficient to ''withstand the simultaneous explosion of four torpedoes," designer Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson D'Eyncourt who during the War was chairman of the British Admiralty Committee which produced the first tank...
...Washburn's well-pondered opinion that: "The irregular armies of Austria can mobilize more rapidly, with a superior armament and a greater striking power than is possessed by the lawful forces of the Republic...
...more than an experimental toy. Many are the stories told of the grand admiral's extraordinary technical knowledge. It was a matter of pride with him never to speak from notes. Aides recall that during his years as grand admiral he could recite from memory the name, speed, armament and displacement of every battleship in the world...
That all the petitions sent to Washington demanding a positive reduction of naval armament rather than parity at the possible expense of increased armaments are entirely uncalled for is the impression which Secretary of State Stimson apparently wishes to convey in the communication appearing in this morning's CRIMSON...
...part of February France's prime-minister, Andre Tardieu, came forward with a demand for a total tonnage of seven hundred and twenty-five thousand tons for France by 1937. Such a program if consistently carried out would embody a possible substantial increase of both United States and British armament. Although the precipitate Tardieu subsequently lost his government temporarily for his rash proposal, it is not un-natural that the fact that the proposal was made at all in the conference jolted American confidence in the ultimate outcome of diplomatic wranglings to the extent of a few petitions...