Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be or as it has been between England and America. But as one who has been in charge of the British Admiralty's policy and a member of the Cabinet, it seems to me that there is much that is unreal, even absurd, in this naval controversy...
...What's the use of quibbling about the relative strength of the two fleets when, in any future contingency, the American and British fleets will almost certainly be found alongside each other? It is very significant that President Coolidge is holding the door open for British suggestions regarding naval disarmament...
...best method of arriving at agreement as to the relative strength of our navies would be, I think, to delegate the matter to a commission of two, one American and one Englishman. Naval experts should not be permitted to embarrass the deliberations of these two statesmen. . . . I feel that Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Hoover or the Earl of Balfour and Mr. Hughes would agree where no conference of admirals or experts could...
Limitation. Closely paralleling President Coolidge, the German Foreign Minister flayed Britain and France for concluding their now happily defunct Naval & Military Pact (TIME, Nov. 5 et ante). "If the two Powers had made such a pact really binding," he declared, "they would have violated the Locarno Treaty" (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) whereby Great Britain pledged aid to Germany no less than France to preserve the peace of Europe...
...murky, blowy morning, last week, half a hundred people huddled quietly at the Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I. Some were Colombian civilians, others U. S. aviators. They were waiting for a new Curtiss Falcon seaplane to be drawn out of her hangar and for the arrival of the pilot. He came, a small, slender young man. The aviators hailed him as "Benny." They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane...