Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding out on missionary money - an accusation first publicly made last spring by Rev. C. Leslie Glenn of Cambridge (TIME, March 12). Pointing out that the National Council gets only 4½% out of each dollar contributed for all church purposes, Dr. Franklin urged General Convention to revise that ratio. Finally, the advocates of missions were cheered by a defense made by the 20 missionary bishops who had gone to Atlantic City, and especially by the appearance of 77-year-old Bishop Peter Trimble Rowre. Most famed of Episcopal missionaries, he had journeyed down from Alaska where he has labored...
Japan, according to Mr. Amau, has resolved to rupture the naval treaties and bring next year's Naval Conference to disaster unless the Great Powers accept "a new scheme of naval limitation which Japan will propose." This scheme is to replace the 5-5-3 naval ratio with something "fairer" to Japan. When correspondents asked point blank if Japan was asking naval parity with the strongest, Mr. Amau grinned, cackled, "That is a card we must keep up our sleeve. It is premature as yet to discuss the details of our scheme...
Recently at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt was understood to have instructed Disarmament Ambassador Norman H. Davis to keep up his fight in London for the retention of the present naval ratio...
...hearers bowed forward eagerly. Did this mean that he was going to buck the Navy's demand for Japanese equality? Suavely Admiral Okada covered himself, "I repeat that it is not in my mind to expect such radical changes so suddenly but I do not favor the present ratio principle. It hurts the self-respect of nations...
...some reduction in naval armaments is desirable but that "obviously" the U.S. and Britain should make greater sacrifices than Japan. According to Asahi ("Today"), a news-organ close to the Premier. "The main [Japanese] complaint is over the Secretary of the Navy's assertion that the 5-5-3 ratio must continue, which seemingly indicates that all Japan's efforts to enlighten the United States have not made the slightest impression...