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...President. At press conference on Tuesday he had next to nothing to say. This seemed too bad in view of the fact that there was present an unusual number of foreign correspondents, especially British-arrived in Washington to watch what Congress does about the Kellogg Treaty and the cruiser-building bill, and to get background for the inauguration of the Hoover regime. President Coolidge took the opportunity to explain to the foreigners that the reason he has the U. S. embassies abroad hand out copies of his speeches-such as the Armistice Day announcement about naval construction, foreign debts...
Probably because Cruiser A is already in course of construction, the Reichstag voted 255 to 203 to complete the job. Instantly it began to seem incredible and silly that anyone had ever taken this teapot-tempest seriously or believed that Old Paul von Hindenburg might resign...
...General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size which Germany is permitted to build under the Treaty of Versailles. Fierce opposition to the measure came from the largest German party, Socialist, which is unalterably Pacifist. Therefore the chancellor of Germany, Socialist Müller, dared not vote...
Replying to Socialist arguments that no warboats would be as good as only one, Defense Minister Groener said, addressing the Reichstag dramatically in the present tense: "The armored Cruiser A is probably the most effective of its tonnage in the world...
...Cruiser A is capable of developing high speed which will enable it to avoid conflict with a superior force. It is vastly superior to the ordinary 10,000-ton cruisers and would be a dangerous adversary of a full-sized battleship. Its armament surpasses that of our old ships of the line...