Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atmosphere tense with Anglo-U. S. suspicion and discord characterized the sessions at Geneva last week of the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
Japanese Proposal. Chief Delegate Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito made a very elastic and tentative proposal. His apparent purpose was to keep in the background until Britain and the U. S. showed signs of agreement. His keynote was that the present relative naval strengths of the U. S., Britain and Japan should be established as a permanent status...
Mysterious Stranger. During the naval proceedings last week, a strange man, carrying a small brown bag, slipped past the doorkeeper with an air so secretive that the suspicions of an alert Swiss detective were at once aroused. The stranger, grey-haired, straggly mustached, clad in an undistinguished business suit, pattered the length of several corridors, set his bag down, mopped his face. The Swiss detective, with catlike caution, flattened himself against the wall, watched the stranger closely for signs that his bag contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand...
...definitely deferred. . . . Yet the very existence of the League depends upon a general reduction in armaments." Later in the day, M. Briand's "strawberry rash" became so severe that he hastily returned to Pans for expert treatment. The Council then dispersed, abandoning the Geneva scene to the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley...
...budget where he thought there ought to have been savings. He declared: "The budget estimates for 1927-28 carry total expenditures of 9,100,000,000 marks, as compared with 7,200,000,000 marks in 1924-25 an increase of 1,900,000,000 marks. . . . "The military and naval budget expenditures rose from 458,000,000 marks four years ago to 700,000,000 marks for the current year...