Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Sir Edward revealed for the first time, the nature of his own agreements with France. Said Viscount Grey: The naval conversations (with France) had prepared for the present an effective cooperation of the two powers in case of war, but, it has always been understood that these agreements did not "restrict the freedom of either government to decide at any future time whether or not to assist the other by armed force...
...protests, that it is not the world's greatest. In point, that is, of size, though never of spirit. Last week, on the heels of President Coolidge's unminced reiteration of his country's intention to look out from now on for its own interests, naval and financial, the Navy Department proclaimed its intention: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none, and in conformity with the ratios established by the Washington conference...
...press (Hearst, et al.) interpreted this announcement as a notable "reaction" to the President's speech. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Indeed, the Navy Department was at pains to explain that it was merely repeating what it had said since the international naval disarmament conference of 1922, to wit, that, within the agreed capital-ship limit, the U. S. Navy should be kept 100% efficient...
...German statesmen similarly declared that their naval programs, before the War, were based on needs and were not competitive with our navy. . . . All the elements of an Anglo-American conflict are now present...
...winner of the Wood-row Wilson Peace Prize, who was forced to resign as British representative on the League of Nations because his advocacy of pacifism and disarmament was in advance of the British Government's position. That position was such that absolutely nothing was achieved when the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15, 1927) was convoked in Geneva...