Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Precautions? When U. S. President Calvin Coolidge issued invitations to the Parley (TIME, Feb. 21), he stressed an intent to extend the 5-5-3 Washington Treaty ratio to cover not only capital ships (as at present) but auxiliary craft as well. Mere "extension" seemed not to call for the same amount of preliminary sounding out which would have been advisable had a wholly new problem been up for consideration. Thus President Coolidge is reputed to have entered the affair with no more than routine caution...
...Managua Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, U. S. N., to succeed Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer as commander of the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. Immediately upon landing, Rear Admiral Sellers was informed by Brigadier General Feland that numerous detachments of U. S. marines were maneuvering with intent to surround and subdue the forces of General Sandino...
...Ever intent...
England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...
...still have profited somewhat, even by the thin veneer of culture, she also leaves out of the question. The article proves nothing except that the whole question of higher education, its advantages and defects, is too broad for one mind too grasp, especially if that mind be more intent on satire than on sympathy...