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...Although the British and U. S. delegations were able to agree on the figure of 450,000 cruiser tons as a basis of limitation, last week, they could not agree on the proportions in which to build ships of various sizes with-in this limit of total tonnage...
...exploits which correspondents often described, during the War, only to have their despatches "killed" by Allied censors. Lord Jellicoe admitted, last week, that the Berlin once ducked unperceived through eight battle squadrons of the British Grand fleet and proceeded to lay mines which later sank the potent British battle cruiser Audacious...
...TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was haggled over in terms of cruisers, last week, because the cruiser is the strongest naval arm which the Parley was called to consider. Because negotiations proceeded wholly in private, last week, it was necessary to piece together from unofficial sources the guiding concepts which each delegation was striving to round out into achievements...
...Delegation's Concepts: 1) That the U. S. would accept nothing less than parity, at not more than 400,000 cruiser tons (200,000 less than the British asked) ; 2) That the British proposal to limit cruisers to 7,500 tons could not be tolerated, chiefly because it would make more than 40 fast British steamers potential cruisers, and also because of U. S. lack of naval bases; 3) That the British had stated their position in such bald terms that the Coolidge Administration would not find such a treaty as the British proposed valuable political capital, but rather...
...Eggshell, eh?" he snorted. "Well, give me their Majestic with 30 six-inch guns aboard and I guarantee to sink any 7,500-ton cruiser ever launched...