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Partisans of such fame as Norman Thomas, Hamilton Fish, and Stanley Baldwin will speak on the subject of political philosophies at the eleventh annual parley of Wesleyan University to be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December...
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...
...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...