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...carefully assembled all the best arguments in behalf of this prime U. S. policy (TIME, April 21). He balanced the reduction of national defense against the elimination of international jealousies and friction. He spoke of the London Naval Conference achievements in terms of reduced ill will rather than reduced warship tonnage. He de- clared...
...President Hoover last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sent a telegram criticizing the warship construction program of the U. S. delegation at the London Naval Conference, asking him to change their tactics. The President did not reply...
...fertile farmland. The draft agreement, last week at Nanking by Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across the Yellow Sea-onetime Russian stronghold of Port Arthur. It was leased to Great Britain in 1898 to compensate...
...many a patriotic and military organization flocked before the House Judiciary Committee last week to urge enactment of a bill for that purpose. The bill's author: Maryland's Representative John Charles Linthicum from the district containing Fort McHenry, over which Key, a prisoner on a British warship, beheld his country's flag still flying on the morning of Sept. 15, 1814, after an all night bombardment...
...German word ersatz (substitute) has taken on a powerful significance in late years. German research and diligence has found a way to make nitrogen artificially (giving unlimited source for explosives); has made synthetic petroleum; has evolved the small but potent Ersatz Preussen, a warship designed to outrank anything of similar tonnage and armament in other navies...