Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some months ago I proposed to the world that we should further reduce and limit naval arms. . . . And daily in this room do I receive evidence of almost universal prayer that this negotiation shall succeed...
...Subcommittee of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee-precise, fingerpointing Senator Shortridge of California, square-jawed Senator Allen of Kansas, ruddy Senator Robinson of Arkansas-last week got down to investigating whether William B. Shearer, naval expert, had broken up the Geneva Disarmament Conference, whether U. S. shipbuilding companies had paid him for doing...
Referring to the now almost complete Anglo-U. S. naval agreement (TIME, Sept. 23) the President said: "There are proposals which would preserve our national defense and yet would relieve the backs of those who toil from gigantic expenditures and the world from hate and fear which flows from rivalry in the building of warships." To define as narrowly as might be prudent his conception of what constitutes "adequate preparedness" he declared: "That preparedness must not exceed the barest necessity for defense or it becomes a threat of aggression against others and thus a cause of fear and animosity...
London. It appeared certain last week that Britain and not the U. S. will call the Five Power Naval Conference scheduled for next January at which the tentative naval agreements thus far reached by President Hoover and British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald will be laid before France, Italy and Japan. Tall, cheerful Scot MacDonald put in the week quietly preparing for the good-will visit to Washington which he will make next week to smooth the way for the Five Power Conference. With his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel he motored out from London to Sandringham "by royal command...
Tokyo. Japan's Naval Minister, suave Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, told correspondents in Tokyo with polite circumlocution that he considered the Anglo-U. S. figures for achieving parity somewhat too high. The policy of the Imperial Government at the Five Power Conference, he said, would be to urge slightly lower fleet tonnages for all concerned in all categories. Japan will ask to be allowed to maintain a cruiser fleet 70% as strong as that of either Britain or the U. S., will demand absolute parity with the major powers in submarines. Today under the famed 5-5-3 ratio...