Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy. The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War was hardly four hours old before the Navy began to feel its influence. Responsive (by prearrangement) to Premier MacDonald's announcement of a reduction in the British naval building program, of British acceptance of thoroughgoing naval parity with the U. S., President Hoover moved to retard the construction of three 10,000-ton cruisers. He publicly explained: cruisers henceforth are not to compete in armament as potential opponents but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. . . . Generally speaking the British cruiser strength considerably exceeds the American strength...
Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, Chairman of the Senate's Naval Affairs Committee, declared, however, that the President was legally powerless to interpose an undue delay in carrying out the will of Congress. The altercation harked back to the last administration, when President Coolidge vainly sought to induce Congress to eliminate the mandatory time-clause from the building bill to meet just such an emergency. (TIME...
...HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest the U. S. and the Empire might soon "compete in armament as political oppo-nents." Of course no one feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME, Feb. 20, 1928). Therefore last week millions of Britons of every party-Labor, Liberal, Conservative-breathed fervent relief as the armament-race demon was definitely scotched...
...discharged from the royal dockyards. . . . "We are indebted to the Board of Admiralty for the help they have rendered. . . . They have furnished us with loyal help toward achieving our objective with the least possible dislocation and hardship." Pained British taxpayers visioned millions of their money being spent vaguely on "naval repairs." Watching the Hoover-MacDonald naval parings, Japanese Naval Minister Takeshi Takerabe said: "We cannot fail to derive inspiration from such examples...
...Army has a National Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. The Navy has a National Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Why not a National Aviation Academy under a Federal Department of Aeronautics...