Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover Administration is not yielding or backtracking on the cardinal ideal, but simply feels that a primarily naval power such as the U. S. should keep hands off the problem of land disarmament, leaving it to be thrashed out among France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the other land Powers...
...England's intimacy with the potent little yellowmen of Nippon. Due primarily to the influence of Canada, New Zealand and Australia? all leery of Japanese immigrants?Great Britain is no longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...
Then, most exciting of all, Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, chair-man of the U. S. Delegation to the League of Nations preparatory Arms Conference at Geneva, delivered at Geneva the Hoover formula for reduction (not limitation) of naval armaments. How would the Powers take to his plan? Carefully, secretly President Hoover had planted his armament reduction idea in Chief Delegate Gibson's mind during quiet White House evenings a month ago, when the Powers despaired of success at the forthcoming conference...
...Measuring Stick." Engineers like to express themselves in letters and symbols. Without saying so officially, Ambassador Gibson conveyed unmistakably to correspondents that he had received from President Hoover a draft formula or naval "measuring stick," in which "A" stood for age, "C" for calibre, "D" for displacement. The list of categories remains as under Calvin Coolidge: 1) Capital Ships; 2) Aircraft Carriers (both of these already limited under the Washington Conference Treaty); 3) Cruisers; 4) Destroyers; 5) Submarines. With correspondents Mr. Gibson went so far as to indicate, several days after his speech, that the British had not even...
...Brussels and the two men soon became closest friends. During 1918-19, Mr. Gibson was detailed by the State Department for special and extraordinary duty under Mr. Hoover, then Director General of Relief. So intimate are President and Ambassador today that Mr. Gibson dared, two days after his naval speech last week, to pledge the U. S. to a most vital concession with respect to land armaments in a second blue-bolt speech delivered extemporaneously...