Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manpower which is otherwise largely cancelled, or at least rendered exceedingly doubtful, by their existence. Precedents would seem to show that the reduction of armaments is conducive to war rather than to peace. The only disarmament conference that ever achieved substantial results was the Washington Conference in 1921. The naval armaments of the Powers taking part were limited according to certain ratios and a large area of the Pacific Ocean was "demilitarised." The result was to place China at the mercy of Japan...
...probable that, except for the temporary limitation of her naval armaments. Japan would have been unable to wage her war of conquest in China during the early thirties and would not have been able to ally herself with Germany. It is even conceivable that China would not have fallen under Communist domination if Britain and the United States had not chosen in Washington to abandon their strategic ascendancy in the Pacific...
Well-versed in naval architecture and navigation, Puleston left his bank job in 1931, and, with one companion, sailed across the Atlantic in the 31-ft. yawl Uldra. For six years he adventured around the world, and stopped barely long enough to get married: his honeymoon (with the former Elizabeth Ann Wellington of Manhattan) was spent on a 110-ft. vessel sailing from San Francisco to Tahiti. Puleston took time out to write a sensitive travel book, Blue Water Vagabond (Doubleday) , and to do a few bird paintings - most of which he gave away as presents. He was surprised when...
...Carlos Martinez de Campos, Duque de la Torre, a hard-fisted former artilleryman who is Franco's close friend and has family ties with Don Juan. The duke, a member of the Spanish general staff, will have charge of a large staff of tutors, mostly from the Spanish naval college, who will instruct Juanito in military science, mathematics and history, prepare him for officership in the Spanish navy...
...advance guard of some 5,000 G.I.s who will man the air and naval bases leased by the U.S. began arriving in Spain last fall. Problems marched in with them...