Word: britten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often said that too many admirals spoiled the Geneva Conference; therefore Mr. Britten specified an all-civilian conference...
Laying aside folly, publicity and asininity, a part of Washington was obliged, therefore, to see if there might not be some wisdom in the Britten plan, however unconventional it seemed. Calmly examined, Mr. Britten's cablegram to Premier Baldwin, and the explanatory statement published with it, were found to contain the following points...
...Britten well knew the kind of discussions Mr. Baldwin had in mind-informal discussions such as Mr. Britten and many another people's representative, from the U. S. and other countries, have participated in at meetings of the Interparliamentary Union...
Following as closely as it did President Coolidge's blunt declaration of U. S. independence in Navy-building (TIME, Nov. 19)-a declaration which restored Anglo-American "understanding" to a pre-War mood-the Britten proposal seemed, just possibly, to be a blunt Representative's effort to start all over again, without Presidential prolixity or diplomatic red-tape, and get an elementary subject thoroughly thrashed out between the plain people of two friendly countries...
Etiquette demanded that Premier Baldwin consult the U. S. State Department and reply through it to Mr. Britten. Thoroughly annoyed by Mr. Britten, the State Department would have liked to discourage Premier Baldwin from doing more than acknowledge the receipt of the Britten cablegram. Premier Baldwin let it be known that his answer was "in the same friendly spirit" as Mr. Britten's message but left it to Secretary Kellogg to pass the answer on to Mr. Britten and the U. S. public...