Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Giver. In 1899, a potent young Harvard tennis player named Dwight Filley Davis donated a cup to be played for by tennis teams from all nations. Last week, at a dinner on the S. S. France, moored in the Hudson River, Mr. Davis, now U. S. Secretary of War, bade "a sad and long farewell" to his tennis cup, congratulated three Frenchmen on winning it from U. S. players who had kept it the past seven years...
Much talk of a "tariff war" ensuing was heard. Washington prepared its reply, which was held certain to reject in toto the French proposals since the U. S. tariff law does not permit most-favored nation treatment...
Then, assuming his psychic powers-an alleged natural gift in which he takes great pride-he predicted dire war: "I am even certain that many of those powers talking about disarmament do so in order to inspire greater confidence, thus disguising their purposes. According to my opinion, we shall go through another and more awful war at the latest in 1937, a war which will last only a few days and possibly only a few hours...
...same moment that war is proclaimed giant fleets of airplanes, airships and U-boats will be informed by wireless. Merchantmen will be destroyed immediately and a nation unprepared for war will be exterminated within 48 hours. On land and sea new and pernicious gases and explosives, unknown in Germany, will be employed and annihilate the weaker nations within a moment...
Boarding the flagship Schleswig-Holstein, the President reviewed the biggest naval parade held since the War. Thirty-five ships with crews totaling 7,000 men, about two-thirds of the Reich's naval strength in ships* and half its strength in men, took part. At the end of his review President von Hindenburg sent a radio thanking all ranks for their work, praising their efficiency...