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While Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson at the London Naval Conference was last week explaining U. S. Navy needs, the U. S. fleet began to assemble at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for winter maneuvers. Well out of public observation, 136 vessels, manned by 100,000 officers and men, will there exhibit to their own satisfaction their sea prowess in attack and defense formation, in target practice, night scouting and all the other simulations of marine warfare. With more than 50 ships already at Guantanamo, the scouting and battle fleets from the Pacific began to pour eastward through the Panama Canal...
With striking lucidity Statesman Stimson proposed a clear-cut solution of the old, much-muddled Anglo-U. S. cruiser issue...
Always addicted to general terms, Mr. MacDonald paralleled the Hoover-Stimson specific proposal for "Optional Duplications" with these words...
Thus Britain began accepting half the Hoover-Stimson plan (shifts from a higher to a lower category), but were mum about the other half (shifts from low to high...
...Stimson: "In destroyers. . . we suggest equality in tonnage, and in submarines the lowest tonnage possible...