Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruisers authorized in 1924 (the first two: Salt Lake City, Pensacola), the Chester set a record for laying-launching time-one year, 59 days. Scheduled for completion by June 1, 1930, she typifies the long-range U. S. fighting craft which is most objectionable to Great Britain...
With the kingdom saved for his sovereign, Dr. Judd negotiated treaties with France, Great Britain and the U. S., guaranteeing Hawaii's independence...
...headlong pacifiers, checked, promised to move cautiously against a repetition of the 1927 Geneva Conference fiasco. Meanwhile disarmament sentiment was growing in Britain. Impulsive was the suggestion of Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Wartime member of the British General Staff, that Britain should abandon her naval bases in the Caribbean as a gesture of international goodwill. For home consumption he pointed out that the West Indian stations were expensive and of small value, and added...
...alarm of British diehards and the delight of U. S. seadogs, several British periodicals picked up this suggestion and pressed it editorially. Britain's "bases" at Bermuda, Nassau, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados constitute moral if not actually military threats to the Panama Canal...
Bostonians Abroad. From Boston came news that, during May and June 1930. on official invitation, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra will tour Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland. Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland...