Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure to bring about an agreement on naval arms with Great Britain at Geneva in 1927 may or may not be laid at Mr. Gibson's door. In Foreign Affairs, for April, John William Davis, onetime (1918-1921) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's undertook to explain this diplomatic breakdown, to minimize Anglo-American differences, to suggest a policy under which naval limitations could be accomplished. Attracting wide attention in Washington, Mr. Davis wrote...
That, he thought, "would shrink the whole naval controversy to its true proportions" and "would reduce the probability of a collision between the navies of the U.S. and Great Britain to the vanishing point...
...mood for making such declarations is waiting for Great Britain to move next on the naval question...
Grave issues of state and politics sharply focused world interest, last week, on Edward of Wales and on the leaders of Great Britain's three political parties. The secret had leaked out−after months of official concealment−that President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State has been challenging the authority of the Crown Council as at present constituted. All ordinary powers of the King-Emperor were signed over by stricken George V (TIME, Dec. 17), to this Council, which consists of the Prime Minister, Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of York...
...troubled seemed Britain's political complexion that many looked for reassurance upon the face and symbol of Edward of Wales. Wildest Irishmen like him. He has just cemented his popularity with all classes−especially the lower−by what may yet grow to seem an epochal tour of the British Coal Fields (TIME, Feb. 1), where millions are jobless, well nigh starving, and might conceivably have turned against the Crown. With two gestures of convincing sincerity Edward of Wales did much to forestall that. The first gesture was his report on the unemployment situation, which he denounced...