Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Extension of the Washington Conference 5-5-3 ratio, now limiting only capital ships, to limit also cruisers, destroyers and submarines...
...only extension of the Washington agreements from capital ships to cruisers, destroyers and submarines; but revision of these agreements as they now stand and limit capital ships...
...also think it would be desirable to discuss the possibility of limiting the number of submarines according to our varying requirements, and it must be borne in mind that any limit placed on the number of submarines would make it easier to limit the number of destroyers, and if agreement were reached on these points with other powers it might be possible also to consider the number of cruisers each of us should possess...
Quintessence. Reduced to simplest terms, the British said, in effect: "Revise the Washington Treaty. Limit the fighting strength of individual future ships. Lastly, it may be found possible to limit total navy strengths...
...large and distinguished governing body of Oxford University voted last week, 229 to 164, to limit the number of women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...