Word: parleys
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...with the most gargantuan defense budget in Japanese peacetime history (TIME, Dec. 3). Undoubtedly with grave misgivings, Emperor Hirohito, the bespectacled Son of Heaven, signed his Privy Council's awful decision last week as the world's only other Emperor of consequence was polishing the London Naval parley off into oblivion. The delegates did their own adjourning, but for Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, for Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and for U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis the big moments last week were when each was called separately to Buckingham Palace. Each was questioned closely by George...
...Intolerable for France." Just as grey and graceful Ambassador Davis and silver-haired, silver-tongued Prime Minister MacDonald were congratulating themselves that Japan, having denounced the Treaty, must certainly bear all blame for disrupting the London parley, Japanese diplomacy abruptly whipped out a two of spades...
...kept amazingly mum on that subject since he became President. News queries at Washington on naval policy are commonly referred to grey and graceful little Norman Hezekiah Davis, who served President Hoover as disarmament Ambassador-at-Large, continues so to serve President Roosevelt. In London at the deadlocked Naval Parley (TIME, Dec. 3), it was Ambassador Davis' privilege last week to tell the world just where, in the President's opinion, Japan gets...
...Except that no delegation went home, the London Naval Parley (TIME, Oct. 22) seemed last week to have reached the crack-up stage. The British Government, after flirting for weeks with all kinds of Japanese proposals, appeared at last to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis in his flat rejection of Japan's demand that the 5-5-3 naval ratio be scrapped to give Japan equality...
...rescue whatever he could out of the parley wreck at London, Japan's Matsudaira rushed around to French Ambassador Charles Corbin and sought to curry favor by promising that Tokyo would support a French demand for naval parity should Paris ever make it. Meanwhile the U. S. and Britain publicly embraced each other in a series of fervent hands-across-the-sea declarations by Secretary Cordell Hull, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and Lord President of the Council Stanley Baldwin who ringingly declared at Glasgow: "As far as this country is concerned...