Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve leading Paris newspapers last week devoted four times as much space to two remote Italians as to the break-up of the Geneva Naval Conference. Why? The French, as lovers of liberty, were interested in whether these two Italians were to be killed by a democracy for a crime of which they were innocent or whether they were actually guilty and had been responsible for an international campaign to defeat justice...
What probable effect will be produced upon the world by the total breakdown in Geneva last week of the U. S.-British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley? Which government was chiefly to blame? Were precautions neglected at the start, which, if taken, might have greatly fostered success...
...delegation saw the futility of discussion under such circumstances; and Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito, Chief Japanese Delegate, accordingly did little more throughout the Parley than to make well-meant efforts to draw the U. S. and British delegations together on some common ground (for example, his idea of a "naval holiday" during which no more ships would be built by any power...
Thus, all who played the "Naval Limitations Game" (see above); last week found magnificent scope here for their talents. Many who tried to argue the issue agreed with a statement made by the chief British naval expert, Admiral Earl Jellicoe. Said he, at Geneva, after the Parley had adjourned: "It should never have been held! The result is most unfortunate for. everybody...
...that the U. S. is approximately equal in naval strength to Britain (whereas the airing of statistics at Geneva has proved Britain's long lead...