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...neck and declared through happy tears: "Nippon and America, all same heart." For the next 77 years-until 1931-the U. S.-Japanese heart beat warmly. The two collaborated in opening China's door, and in suppressing her Boxer Rebellion. Theodore Roosevelt sponsored the peace conference at Portsmouth, N. H., which ended the Russo-Japanese war. In 1911 a new trade treaty was concluded. At the Washington conference in 1921, Japan and the U. S. joined again in the Five-and Nine-Power Treaties...
...King also visited the Portsmouth naval base, there bestowed honors on a "suicide squad" of five from H. M. S. Vernon (as the combined Portsmouth barracks and naval laboratory are still called, after an old training ship long since rotted away). They were the men who, "with undaunted courage and a spanner," sloshed out between tides on a windy foreshore to where, half buried in mud, lay a magnetic mine-first specimen obtained by the Royal Navy's explosion experts. Unbolting the case, ignoring ominous hisses and tickings, Lieut. Commander, Roger Lewis at last thrust his arm inside...
Commander Momsen was at his experimental station in Washington when first news of the disaster was telephoned in from the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, "Squalus is down off the Isle of Shoals, depth between 200 and 400 feet; have your divers and equipment ready to leave immediately...
Commander Momsen has been concerned with the safety provisions on submarines and was one of the first to appear at the scene of the Squalus when it sank off Portsmouth last...
First to greet them was Admiral Sir William James, commander in chief of the Portsmouth naval base. Second and third were the Duke's trusted friend and former equerry, Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, and Sir Walter Monckton. The Duke & Duchess had planned to drive straight to Major Metcalfe's country place, but delay and blackout made them decide to spend the night in Portsmouth with Sir William. That evening, among war bulletins, British Broadcasting Corp. spent exactly ten of its preciously pronounced words on the arrival...