Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Roosevelt pleads for world peace and urges the nations to accept his plan for strict government licensing of arms manufacturing, the State Department announces to the parley at London its intention to build up the fleet to full treaty limits. This sudden pronouncement of policy calls attention to the uncritical attitude which the American people has adopted towards its naval building program...
...Naval parley breaks down ? and a break at London was perilously near this week? then indeed the Peace of the World will be on the great team's gridiron. They would try to slow down the inevitable naval race, try to keep the Great Pacific War from becoming inevitable. Last week they were doing what they could to avert a break at London. There the U. S. is ably represented by trouble-shooting Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. But dispatches indicated that per-haps only in Tokyo can the trouble he is after be shot...
...deadlocked London naval parley between Britain, the U. S. and Japan (TIME, Oct. 29), U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis last week worsted Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira two up at golf. There was no other progress. Said inflexible Japanese Chief Delegate Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, broadcasting around the world to the Japanese people, "I am in no hurry. I will do my best to attain the Government's objectives and live up to Japan's expectations." These expectations: Britain and the U. S. shall accord Japan naval parity, scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio...
...Parley gets on and where is Britain? No, not quite where we hoped to see her somehow. In some slippery fashion she got over on the Japanese side of the fence and is now supporting Nipponese equality claims! Empire-Builder, Big Navy England of all nations! And she has the added presumption to offer Japan her good offices, in polite condescension to the Japanese, to mediate and urge the Americans to see their point of view. Admiral Yamomoto no doubt felt that there was something 'fishy' about it all, and that admirable statesman politely refused the tender of good offices...
...been very sympathetic; he wants your friendship, if not more so, at least as much as that of old John Bull. Give Admiral Yamomoto some encouragement. We want Japanese friendship. Why not equality backed up by a security peace pact, if you are sincere about your efforts? If this Parley is a failure you boys will have micceeded in grand fashion to threaten yourselves. We demand Japanese friendship! Alfred M. Nittle...