Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came also, during the week, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, carrier of a grave governmental affair already begun-the U. S. reply to Britain and France about their new "secret" naval understanding. President Coolidge gave his approval and soon there was a great clicking of cable instruments as the Note, although it was soon to be made public (see p. 16), was gravely despatched in code, decoded at the other end and checked back by cable...
...Navy Department there were great buzzings about how President Coolidge would now, surely, see to it that Congress soon passes a cruiser-building bill, if only to show France and England that U. S. naval policy is independent, self-respecting...
...text of the secret naval agreement between Great Britain and France (TIME, Aug. 13) was partially exposed and its principles were vigorously denounced, last week, in a point blank note from the U. S. State Department to the British Foreign Office...
...John Bull, you refused to swallow our sort of disarmament pill at the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15. 1927). We offered to limit all classes of ships. You offered, instead, another sort of pill, suggesting that we limit only the larger naval craft and leave unlimited small cruisers and small submarines...
...John, you know that your naval bases in all parts of the world enable you to use small ships of short cruising radius with deadly effect. We are not so well provided with bases, and so we must have larger ships of longer cruising radius. When you propose to limit large ships and leave small ones unlimited, you are proposing to limit only the ships we chiefly need, while leaving unlimited the ships you chiefly need...