Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, said tha transferring the airline to the S-4's "ears" had required special pipefitting which could not be . got ready before rough weather halted diving operations...
Investigations loomed. Secretary Wilbur ordered a naval court of inquiry to sit in Boston. In the House of Representatives, three resolutions demanded reports, not only on the specific subjects of the S-4 disaster and safety devices for submarines, but on the efficiency of the Navy in general. Speaker Longworth of the House declared such inquiries would await the findings of the naval court...
Speaking from the Throne, last week, His Majesty prorogued Parliament until February 7. His speech, of course, had been prepared by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and one sentence was especially significant: "My Government has no intention of embarking on an increase in their naval building program." (See FRANCE and GERMANY...
...Reichsrat or "Council of the States of the Republic" rejected a bill proposing that Germany should embark upon a naval building program which called for the construction of one armored cruiser of 10,000 tons. Since the august consent of the Reichsrat must be obtained before a bill can be introduced in Parliament, the proposed "naval program" was definitely quashed. (See COMMONWEALTH and FRANCE...
...year closes, what cabinet of a great Power is so sharply criticised as that of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin? During the past twelvemonth it has broken with Russia, declined to agree with the U. S. on naval limitation, neglected to deal with the desperate British coal situation, and once more rebuffed the expressed desire of Continental nations to gird the League with strength to enforce international settlements. Even should each of these doubtful acts be adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue...