Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Navy, solemnly pronounced these words at Portsmouth, N. H., last week as the Navy's largest submarine slid down the stocks and out upon the Piscataqua River. Beside her stood her son, Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations. Snow was falling on her fur coat, on her bouquet of roses. Navy men pressed about her solicitously, to shield her from the storm...
...took the water, 42 naval officers were graduated from the Navy's special submarine school at New London, Conn., to help man this growing arm of national defense...
...These naval activities, of course, in no wise reduced the determination of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates to the London Naval Conference to talk Japan's delegates out of their demands for large submarine tonnage. With nice new bags and trunks ceremoniously packed by his wife who remained behind in Tokyo, onetime Japanese Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki had brought his delegation to Washington for a brief diplomatic visit on the way to London. To his suburban home, Woodley, Statesman Stimson invited Delegates Wakatsuki and Takarabe, there with U. S. Delegate Morrow, discussed naval matters...
...Japanese naval demands: 1) 70% of the largest auxiliary fleet allowed the U. S. or Britain; 2) a flexible interchange of auxiliary tonnage between categories; 3) retention of their full submarine strength of 71 ships (78,497 tons). Like good diplomats, they were ready to give in on demands No. 1 and 2 but on demand No. 3 all the persuasiveness of Statesman Stimson could not bridge them to compromise. Vainly Mr. Stimson tried to show them that submarines were useless against battleships, that they served only as weapons of uncivilized warfare against unarmed merchantmen. Possibly the Japanese interpreter failed...
...Secretary of the Navy should take part in conferences which may shape the future of the Navy. There is full confidence in Charles Francis Adams. . . . He is possessed of more knowledge regarding the Navy than any other delegate. When Mr. Stimson and Mr. Morrow enter into an exchange of naval views with such an expert as Admiral Takarabe it is not to be expected that the Americans could hold their...