Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terms of the Limitation of Armament Treaty, Japan is building a large number of fast light cruisers with great cruising range. These vessels would be effective for a naval offensive in the Pacific. But by the terms of the same treaty we are forbidden to fortify any of our insular possessions in the Pacific except Hawaii. It is this state of affairs to which Admiral Sims strongly objects...
Although the Board did not recommend any addition to those naval bases on our insular possessions where prohibited by the limitation or armament treaty, it plans to expedite development at the Panama Canal Zone and Hawaiian bases. Development of these two bases is especially necessary at this time. The limitation of armament treaty does not prohibit the building of light, fast cruisers. Accordingly other nations-one of whom is Japan-have specialized in ships of this type. In order to counterbalance this condition it is necessary to develop our outlying bases...
...government departments,--executive, legislative, judicial, and educational,--since 1917. There are only 582 Americans on the government staff today, and 325 of them are there in a teaching capacity. The American officials with any real power in the government do not number more than a dozen: Governor, Vice-Governor, Insular Auditor, directors of the six departments in the administration, three judges in the Supreme Court, and four American assistant chiefs of the Constabulary under a Spanish brigadier. The army forces in the Philippines are cut down far below the margin of safety; and the coastal defences have been stripped...
Delaware, Idaho and Nevada are the only states in the Union which are not represented in the College. Alaska and the Insular Possessions send nine men, and the foreign countries 50. The total enrollment for the College...
Appointments are made by the Commissioner of Education of Porto Rico, but the details are handled by the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, Washington, D. C. Further information may be obtained at the Appointment Office, University...