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...merchant marine, equipped with many liners such as the Mauretania, which could be transformed into light fighting units by the mere mounting of guns. Citizens of the U. S. have been made aware of this problem through statements released by U. S. experts at the now defunct Naval Limitations Parley (see p. 10), and therefore the Navy Department was able to arouse unusual interest last week by announcing new plans for a merchant marine officers reserve corps...
What probable effect will be produced upon the world by the total breakdown in Geneva last week of the U. S.-British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley? Which government was chiefly to blame? Were precautions neglected at the start, which, if taken, might have greatly fostered success...
Precautions? When U. S. President Calvin Coolidge issued invitations to the Parley (TIME, Feb. 21), he stressed an intent to extend the 5-5-3 Washington Treaty ratio to cover not only capital ships (as at present) but auxiliary craft as well. Mere "extension" seemed not to call for the same amount of preliminary sounding out which would have been advisable had a wholly new problem been up for consideration. Thus President Coolidge is reputed to have entered the affair with no more than routine caution...
...British Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin unquestionably took note of the fact that President Coolidge went on with preparations for the Parley even after his invitations to France and Italy had been refused (TIME, March 7). This and other facts bolstered up a British theory that President Coolidge wanted a "European diplomatic victory" for use in campaigning for re-election and might be prepared to yield a good deal to get it. Thus the British Government reputedly did not sound out the U. S. Administration quite so thoroughly as would have been wise had they expected strong resistance...
Only war boats other than capital ships and aircraft carriers (which are limited by the Washington Treaty) were placed within the scope of this Parley...