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...Congress: Ultra-conservative in his economic views, he is unflinchingly regular in his Republican votes. Seniority of service has advanced him to the chairmanship of the Naval Affairs Committee. Sincerely believing in the largest fighting fleet possible, he is the legislative spokesman of the Navy's General Board. When President Hoover called for an investigation of Big-Navy lobbying by William B. Shearer, he went all in a fidget to his old friend and Harvard classmate, the late Undersecretary of State, Joseph Potter Cotton, who advised him: "Freddie, you've been here 13 years and haven...
Navy to build 15 cruisers that he was referred to in debate as "a mighty light cruiser" by Missouri's caustic Senator Reed who added that "a rowboat appeared to be in charge of the fleet." When the London Treaty limiting auxiliary naval craft arrived in the Senate, he mischievously used his committee, which had nothing to do with the treaty, to bring out the Navy's dissent with the Hoover policy. He later voted against the treaty's ratification as a bad bargain for U. S. defense...
This year he is promoting, without much prospect of success, legislation to push the fleet quickly up to full treaty strength (estimated cost...
...middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear Admiral Koichi Shiosawa, commander of the Japanese fleet anchored off Shanghai, issued an ultimatum: all anti-Japanese organizations in the foreign settlement as well as in the native cities must be suppressed "on pain of drastic naval action...
...what extent the present-day undergraduate allows the newspaper writers effectively to spread the doctrines of an impending war depends on the student. It is he who concludes from the pictures of our soldiery on duty in the Orient in 1927, and of massive members of our battle fleet, that war is just around the corner...