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...proposals of the U. S. and British delegations at the Three Power Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) seemed last week like the statements of a man and wife who love each other at heart but have decided to get a divorce on the ground called "incompatibility of temperament...
Patience was not shown last week by the delegations at Geneva. On the contrary their members seemed weary of negotiation and content to let the Parley gutter out at the forthcoming third plenary session. Meanwhile the chief hope for accord seemed to lie in an agreement between U. S. President Calvin Coolidge and British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now in Canada (see COMMONWEALTH). When this project was broached by newsgatherers to Mr. Baldwin he said...
...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva remained all last week in suspended animation, while the chief British delegates journeyed to London for a conference with Premier Baldwin on the eve of his sailing for Canada (see below...
...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) continued static and unfruitful last week despite the holding of a public session at which the position of each of the three delegations was restated unchanged but with polemic fervor. Reduced to elementals, the deadlock could be stated in two stages...
...Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was haggled over in terms of cruisers, last week, because the cruiser is the strongest naval arm which the Parley was called to consider. Because negotiations proceeded wholly in private, last week, it was necessary to piece together from unofficial sources the guiding concepts which each delegation was striving to round...