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...Debated, debated, debated the cruiser-building bill and the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; postponed both measures until Jan. 3 when they will be the unfinished legislative and executive business, respectively...
...maintained. Knowing that an oldtime war-dog's growling is often interpreted as senile jingoism, and to give his hardware-headed hearers an indisputably sound reason for wanting to see their country more heavily armed, Major-General Bullard also advanced the following argument for supporting the Cruiser Bill now pending in Congress...
...Saturday night a gala opera performance was arranged (out of season). The Argentine's best dancers likewise performed. Mr. Hoover applauded vigorously, stayed late. Early Sunday morning President Irigoyen was at the red-carpeted pier to see his new friends off on the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan...
...Goodwill trip. When the Hoover-bearing battleship Maryland passed down South America's west coast, it was found that the high Andes were an obstacle to telling the world by ship's radio what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could be sent for six hours...
...upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only a seaplane could have sped faster, yet the distance of 6,000 miles seemed illimitable, mocking. Perhaps the young man remembered Kipling's words...