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...pictured as the naval ogre of the world, a monster uncontent with parity in armament with the United States, may be given her answer. For, speaking in the House of Commons two weeks ago William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that two of the big British cruisers that had been building under the terms of the disarmament treaty had been abandoned. At the same time he declared that Britain intended to restrict it cruiser tonnage next year to a mar', below that of the treaty agreement...
...Geneva conference on naval disarmament failed last summer because Britain and the U. S. could not agree as to why and how each should reduce its cruiser-building program. Britain held out for more cruisers than the U. S. thought seemed necessary...
...Geneva conference having failed, President Coolidge has been advocating such additions to the U.S. cruiser line as would have been made had no conference ever been held. Britain, on the other hand, ast fortnight announced that she would build only one of three cruisers planned for next year (TIME, Nov. 28). Last week, U. S. wardogs growled suspiciously at this announcement...
Pacing his room in a Manhattan hotel, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N. retired, said he was so perturbed by the cruiser news from Eng land that he could think of nothing else. He quoted, without naming, a high U. S. official who viewed the British move as a British bluff, an effort to discredit and obstruct the Coolidge program in the 70th Con gress, which meets this week...
...assassination at Sarajevo found him an officer in the Kaiser's navy, but it was not until 1916 that his voyage upon the auxiliary cruiser. Seeadler took him through the midst of the British North Seas Fleet into the Atlantic shipping lanes...