Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government of the United States has received from His Majesty's Government a communication summarizing the understanding reached between the British and French governments as to a basis of naval limitation. . . . Unfortunately the Franco-British agreement appears to fulfill none of the conditions which, to the American government, seem vital...
...terms of the Franco-British draft agreement, in leaving unlimited so large a tonnage and so many types of vessels, would actually tend to defeat the primary objective of any disarmament conference for the reduction or the limitation of armament in that it would not eliminate competition in naval armament and would not effect economy. For all these reasons the Government of the United States feels that no useful purpose would be served by accepting as a basis of discussion the Franco-British proposal...
...impression by welcoming U. S. correspondents to a charming little tea. Urbane Foreign Office officials pointed out at this function that the Coolidge-Kellogg note contains the following conciliatory passage: "The Government of the United States remains willing to use its best efforts to obtain a basis of further naval limitation . . . and is willing to take into consideration in any conference the special needs of France, Italy or any other naval power for the particular class of vessels deemed by them most suitable for their defense. ... It expects on the part of others, however, similar consideration for its own needs...
...soothingly was this passage dwelt upon by bland British undersecretaries that the New York Herald Tribune's responsive Harold E. Scarborough cabled: "America's reply to the Franco-British naval compromise delivered to the Foreign Office at noon today, was greeted with relief by British officialdom. . . . So confused had British public opinion become over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily...
...British Admiralty chose last week as the time to announce that it has let a ?7,750,000 ($37,665,000) contract for the completion of the British naval war base at Singapore to the firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., of London...