Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington, Feb. 6,1922, and known as the treaty between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan limiting naval armaments." On ratification by the Senate, which now has the matter in hand, the Naval Agreement will have been signed by all the signatory Powers- U. S. A., Britain, Japan, Italy, France. Moreover, ratification by France makes the Treaty operative forthwith; that is, all scrapping must be carried out during the next six months. According to the U. S. Navy Department the ships "must be rendered utterly unserviceable for defensive purposes" within that...
...drew up a platform of "recommendations" including: 1) that federal prohibition agents be placed under the civil service; 2) that churches elect no officers who are not out-and-out Drys; 3) that Congress use the Army and Navy to enforce the Volstead Act; 4) that the three-mile limit be extended to drive rum runners farther off shore; 5) that all state and national light-wine-and-beer proposals be defeated...
...House of Lords, Lord Curzon, Foreign Minister, said: " There is no chance of our agreeing in any circumstances whatever to the American proposal for a twelve-mile territorial limit." His contention was that, while the United States had a legal right to seize liquor under seal, she was in fact violating international custom...
Lord Grey, ex-Foreign Minister, said that both sides had cause for complaint. It was obviously unfair for America to let foreign ships attract the bulk of passengers by allowing them to take liquor into the territorial limit. On the other hand it was equally annoying for foreign ships to be deprived of liquor for the whole of the return journey. As Prohibition in the United States was likely to stand, he thought it was extremely advisable that the two Governments should reach an amicable arrangement. He further suggested that the two Governments should publish the full correspondence...
...unanimous criticism Premier Baldwin last week announced an addition of 34 squadrons to the Royal Air Force, and an increase in the air appropriations amounting ultimately to ?5,500,000 annually. Coupled with this announcement was the hope that an agreement might be arrived at with otther Governments to limit aerial armament on lines similar to those proposed at the Washington Arms Conference...