Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Article 14 of the Covenant, according to Les Liberté, gives France and Italy the right to settle their disputes in the Mediterranean. It is, however, suggested by Leon Daudet that parity be granted both Italy and France in the ratio o; three to one, so that any deep differences between the two Latin sisters may be settled on such basis; that is, three Italians to one Frenchman at the bottom of the Mediterranean. This because of the difference in the birthrate between the two nations...
...tons by 1937 in order to give her absolute parity with Italy in the Mediterranean, and to offset the 144,000 tons allowed Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. This program, if built, would give France not only the largest submarine fleet in the world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge in a billion dollars worth of naval ship building. Admirals and statesmen conferred, President Hoover hurried north from Florida...
Spade-bearded Dino Grandi hoped that this procedure would work out as follows: the conference would first decide that France and Italy should stand in a naval ratio of parity. Secondly, when the time came for each nation to announce its needs, France would have to lay her cards on the table before Italy, for the simple reason that the conference procedure is alphabetical and F comes before I. When his turn came, Signer Grandi, already assured of parity with France, already aware of her maximum demands, would simply repeat with a virtuous air Signor Benito Mussolini's old saying...
...minor, has been one of the largest considerations in the giving of a sentence. But these figures show that such judgment has a chance of correctness equivalent to a fraction of one per cent, while if judgment is made according to such scientific tables as Glueck proposes, the ratio rises to somewhere around 80 per cent. This table of prognostication consists of finding out certain facts about the criminal, such as the nature of his habits before he was previously convicted, his attitude toward his family in the past, whether he lives in a favorable neighborhood, how he acted under...
These fair words did not alter in the least the fact that Italy and France were furiously at odds, last week, because each wants a bigger navy than the other; that Japan was sulky because the U. S. and Britain have thus far refused her the 10-10-7 ratio she demands instead of 5-5-3; and that the U. S. and Britain faced each other as friends but by no means in complete agreement on any of the conference issues...