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...Naval Limitations Parley* is developing into an Anglo-American struggle for supremacy. . . . Great Britain's attitude reveals her wish to remain the foremost naval power. . . . America says, rather hysterically, that .she will never be content with an inferior navy...
...atmosphere tense with Anglo-U. S. suspicion and discord characterized the sessions at Geneva last week of the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
Eggshell Debate. A major Anglo-U. S. point of contention last week, was whether, if the British proposal to limit cruiser guns to a six-inch bore were adopted, the British could transform their fast merchant fleet overnight into a cruiser fleet by mounting these little guns on the Mauretania, Majestic, Berengaria, Olympic...
...severance of Anglo-Soviet relations by Great Britain (TIME, June 6) brought on at Moscow last week a political crisis. Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin was again openly criticized for the first time since last fall by his incessant rival, Lev Davidovitch Trotzky. Amid the excitement, Sir Robert Hodgson, Chief of the British Mission at Moscow, quietly departed for London with his staff on the Riga Express...
...Anglo-American scholarship fund of ?250,000 ($1,215,000) was established by the will of Lady Henry, formerly Miss Julia Lewisohn of Manhattan, who died a fortnight ago following an operation for cancer. The bequest provides scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge for U. S. students of either sex; scholarships at Harvard and Yale for British students of either...