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...Premier Okada was through, most correspondents present were convinced that in failing to demand parity now, he was merely pulling for the present a punch which Japan will deliver as soon as she dares. But the Okada answers, when cabled to Washington, gave Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson a fine chance to proclaim loudly and publicly for the Roosevelt Administration the U. S. naval policy laid down by President Hoover when he called for a 33 1/2% cut in the navies of the Great Powers...
...willing to have a reduction of 20%," said Secretary Swanson. "I believe in adhering to the ratios. I believe if you abandoned the ratios there is no telling where we would go in this Conference. I am willing to have a reduction of 20%, 25%, 30% or 33 1/2%, applicable to all signatories of the London Treaty in every category of war boats, but 20% is what we state...
Asked why he had come down from Herbert Hoover's 33 1/2%, Secretary Swanson snapped, "Well, we will see if they accept 20% before we go any further...
...Tokyo the Swanson proposal was received by Premier Okada with glacial silence, but Navy officers who are his friends roasted it scorchingly in the Japanese Press. They declared that 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...
...midshipman had to jump the hurdle of stiff examinations in six subjects. A decade ago all bars were dropped for appointees with high or preparatory school diplomas. Few years later two bars were put back: examinations in English and mathematics. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson set his seal on a new change. Beginning next autumn, appointees who have satisfactorily completed one year of study in an approved college may enter the academy without examination...