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...Naval Limitations Parley* is developing into an Anglo-American struggle for supremacy. . . . Great Britain's attitude reveals her wish to remain the foremost naval power. . . . America says, rather hysterically, that .she will never be content with an inferior navy...
Treaty at Issue. Strife arose because the British insisted on pushing their thesis that the Washington Treaty of 1922, limiting capital ships of the U. S., Britain and Japan in the famed 5-5-3 ratio, should be modified or at least discussed at the present Parley. The U. S. Chief Delegate, Hugh Simpson Gibson, resisted the British pressure, maintaining that the Parley had been called to extend the 5-5-3 ratio to smaller ships, and not to modify it in any way. Suddenly the Japanese, previously supposed to favor the U. S. position, switched over to support British...
...ratio, but rather considers its implications irritating to her amour propre. "We had not thought," said Viscount Saito smoothly, "that the ratio on capital ships should necessarily be extended to auxiliaries." This first point was in itself a polite negation of U. S. aims at the Parley; but the second point squarely supported the British thesis, thus: "The British proposal for reducing the size of capital ships and extending the age limit undoubtedly has merit, proving that it will contribute in no small measure toward the diminution of naval expenditures...
...atmosphere tense with Anglo-U. S. suspicion and discord characterized the sessions at Geneva last week of the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
Progress. The parley sessions were held in secret last week, and the absolute maximum of progress attained seemed to be that the U. S. delegates persuaded the British to put off, at least temporarily, discussion apropos of revising the Washington Treaty and to proceed first with negotiation on other points...