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Seldom or never before has the representative of a Great Power made-up-as-he-went-along such vital words. Broach ing the problem of how the numbers of soldiers should be reduced, Mr. Gibson said, speaking of the Draft Convention over which the Commission has been dawdling for years (TIME, April...
...Measuring Stick." Engineers like to express themselves in letters and symbols. Without saying so officially, Ambassador Gibson conveyed unmistakably to correspondents that he had received from President Hoover a draft formula or naval "measuring stick," in which "A" stood for age, "C" for calibre, "D" for displacement. The list of categories remains as under Calvin Coolidge: 1) Capital Ships; 2) Aircraft Carriers (both of these already limited under the Washington Conference Treaty); 3) Cruisers; 4) Destroyers; 5) Submarines. With correspondents Mr. Gibson went so far as to indicate, several days after his speech, that the British had not even...
...these principles, for which we stood during the first reading [of the draft convention], we still believe; nevertheless, as I indicated the other day, if we are to be able to join in a common draft, it will be necessary for concessions to be made not only on the part of one but on the part of every delegation here present...
...scathing terms, though "not for publication." The plan was not worthy of criticism or consideration, they indicated, because they believed it had been "offered in bad faith." They did not offer any alternative plan, perhaps because the Commission long ago became almost inextricably entangled in its so-called Draft Convention for a Disarmament Conference (TIME, April...
...great seaplane; its propeller moved not, its engine was dead. Motive power came from a small outboard motor affixed to the floating cabin, as to the rear end of a rowboat or canoe. Pertinent utility of the outboard motor: the seaplane can toddle to its dock without the great draft and ungainly power of its flying engine...