Word: interwar
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...work-ferociously-when inany good officers were relaxing in the interwar illusion of peace. He specialized on electrical equipment, after five years of sea duty went back to the Naval Academy for postgraduate work in electrical engineering. When on the battleship Nevada as a lieutenant j.g., he and his men installed a 500-unit battle telephone system. When on the submarine S-48, he redesigned its defective motors. He fought against waste and slipshod ways. These activities earned him commendation, but they won few friends and no preferment...
...question that flared in history books and bars for 25 interwar years was cropping up again...
James Truslow Adams' handling of modern Britain is considerably less critical, less comfortable than his treatment of the 19th Century. Toward the end many readers may suspect that his attitude toward interwar British foreign policy is that the less said the better; he performs a complete weasel on the relations between Britain and Continental powers in the 1930s...