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...rumor was laid to rest last week in the Flowery Kingdom of the Emperor of Japan. It had been suspected and asserted that Japan, uneasy over the failure of the Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.), was attempting to revive the Anglo-Japanese alliance, killed in 1923 by the accords made previously (1921) at the Washington Naval Conference...
...different units of measure. The U. S. Administration formulated its instructions in terms of "tons" or "total tonnage"; whereas the British Government stated its demands in terms of "individual ships" or "numbers of ships." The ensuing and inevitable confusion was as much to be expected as though the Parley had been about "fruit," with one antagonist able to speak only in "bushels" and the other instructed solely in terms of "kinds of peaches" or "numbers of cherries...
From the first, the Japanese delegation saw the futility of discussion under such circumstances; and Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito, Chief Japanese Delegate, accordingly did little more throughout the Parley than to make well-meant efforts to draw the U. S. and British delegations together on some common ground (for example, his idea of a "naval holiday" during which no more ships would be built by any power...
Thus, all who played the "Naval Limitations Game" (see above); last week found magnificent scope here for their talents. Many who tried to argue the issue agreed with a statement made by the chief British naval expert, Admiral Earl Jellicoe. Said he, at Geneva, after the Parley had adjourned: "It should never have been held! The result is most unfortunate for. everybody...
Probable Effect? Nearly all observers agreed in thinking that the U. S. public has been jolted by the Parley in two of its long-cherished beliefs...