Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never challenged either British or American naval power and we are willing to accept with good grace that there should be two naval powers which share hegemony ... on a basis of parity. But what interests us is that we should not have to pay the costs of the combination. That is to say that we should not have to pay for it with the loss of our independence...
...Nicholas Politis, practiced handy man at loosening League pinches. He drafted a compromise resolution which "... confidently hopes the preparatory Disarmament Commission will be able to resume the work interrupted at the last session with the view of framing a preliminary draft convention for the reduction and limitation of land, naval and air armaments as soon as possible...
Paris. Throughout the week the French Government appeared to grow steadily more apprehensive lest the U. S. and Britain were drawing too closely into disarmament cahoots. Fear that Italy and France may be brusquely dictated to by Britain and the U. S. at the Five Power Naval Conference was increasingly manifest in the Paris press. Said the Journal des Debats...
...consequence we cannot subscribe to naval parity with any other European Continental power such as would result in our Mediterranean fleet being in a position of inferiority in that...
...Without assurances that on these three vital points our program will be respected we cannot appear at the naval conference...