Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appeared hopeful that Great Britain would recede from its present position (see p. 12) but felt that U. S. representatives had made all possible concessions and would permit the Conference to collapse rather than consent to the British position which would result in expansion rather than reduction of naval programs. "Big Navy" enthusiasts have never found the President receptive to their ideas...
...proposals of the U. S. and British delegations at the Three Power Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) seemed last week like the statements of a man and wife who love each other at heart but have decided to get a divorce on the ground called "incompatibility of temperament...
...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva remained all last week in suspended animation, while the chief British delegates journeyed to London for a conference with Premier Baldwin on the eve of his sailing for Canada (see below...
...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) continued static and unfruitful last week despite the holding of a public session at which the position of each of the three delegations was restated unchanged but with polemic fervor. Reduced to elementals, the deadlock could be stated in two stages...
...delegation was able to accept naval limitation at either the relatively high total tonnage level demanded by Great Britain or the relatively low level insisted upon by Japan; but since the British and Japanese were so far apart the U. S. delegation's ability to agree with either was of small consequence...