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...began with a meeting of the Navy League's executive committee to ponder its president's charge that President Hoover was "restricting, reducing and starving" the U. S. fleet, subordinating its strength to foreign powers, nullifying authorized construction programs with economy. After due deliberation the committee voted 7-to-i in support of Mr. Gardiner, affirming "its faith in the statement issued." Only dissenter was Demo-crat Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, who took exception to Mr. Gardiner's "unseemly and unjustified language concerning the President of the United States." After posing for photographs the whole committee went...
...Japanese Navy before 1930 held a 6-10 ratio to the U.S. fleet...
...proposed one-year naval building truce, by suspending all construction (87,600 tons), would serve only to "widen the gap" between the U.S. fleet and other powers...
...which he suffered concussion of the brain and kidney injuries; in Hamburg. Prior to the World War Dr. Stimming was employed by the Imperial Naval Office at Kiel and in the Naval Ministry. Member of the Norddeutscher Lloyd board at the end of the War, he saw the fleet reduced to a handful of small, obsolete ships. For Dr. Slimming, who succeeded Philip Heineken as director in 1921, was the colossal task of rebuilding the line. In 1927 he succeeded in raising a $20,000,000 loan in the U. S., sold $9,000,000 in Norddeutscher Lloyd shares...
...yield to them at Geneva in 1927" (i. e. big cruisers for small ones); 4) he refused to let the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in executive session see the full record of his negotiations on the London Treaty; 5) he promised the London Treaty would give the U. S. fleet "a chance to catch up" but failed to execute the catching-up construction; 6) he now favors a special one-year building holiday which would "yield the British and Japanese an average gain [in auxiliaries] of 17.5% over...