Word: disruptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation of Britain's insistence upon limiting U. S. cruisers to 18 at the risk of disrupting the parley was as follows: If the U. S. had 21 cruisers, Japan insisted upon upping its big-cruiser strength proportionately. That prospect frightened the British Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand, which live in chronic dread of Japanese aggression. They informed the home government that unless Japanese cruiser strength was held down as a consequence of U. S. limitation at 18, they would build big cruisers on their own authority and thus disrupt any prospect of parity and limitation. Britain, caught...