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...message touched conventionally on foreign relations, taking the Senate's ratification of the Kellogg treaty for granted. Again the cruiser bill was urged ("I wish to repeat again for the benefit of the timid and the suspicious that this country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government...
Ecuador. The gunboat Cleveland had steamed down from Panama to convey the travellers up the shallow estuary to Guayaquil, 40 miles inland. Soon after Saturday's sunup the trip began. Ecuador's cruiser, the Cotopaxi, came proudly downstream to Puna Island with a welcoming committee...
Parliament building at Lima. The cruiser Almirante Grau flagship of the Peruvian navy (13 vessels) steamed out to meet the Maryland. U.S. Ambassador-to-Peru, Alexander Pollock Moore had his shoes shined extra-specially and congratulated himself again and again on being where he was in the middle of things as usual...
Britons and U. S. citizens were alike disappointed by the failure of the Geneva Conference for cruiser-limitation last year and "surely some way should be found" to discuss and prepare before the five-power conference scheduled...
...that Mr. Butler's faith tempered his ardor for a Big Navy. Mr. Britten, who learned about pugilism, hard-boiled politics and the contracting business in San Francisco and Chicago, has endeared himself to all U. S. sailors by years of pounding the table for more guns, more cruisers, more Navy. In the coming session he will pound behind the scenes. The cruiser bill passed the House last spring. Battling Britten will urge it through the Senate...