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...recent Tardieu memorandum to the Powers seriously jeopardized the Conference in advance (TIME, Jan. 6), by dragging in such issues as "Freedom of the Seas" (which Statesmen Hoover and MacDonald had agreed is too inflammable to touch) and by disparaging the Kellogg Pact, which they months ago announced would be the cornerstone of their Great Peace (TiME, Oct. 21). If hard, kinetic, calculating M. Tardieu does not retreat at London a long way from his earlier positions there will be nothing to do but make a pact of less than five signatories, without France, or call the Conference a failure...
Kellogg Pact to make it the basis for cutting her cruiser fleet from 70 to 50 ship?, which she is now ready to do according to an official statement earlier in the week by First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. The MacDonald memorandum threw cold water on the Tardieu proposal for a Mediterranean pact, and sidestepped the French project for a stronger League of Nations with the remark that the Kellogg Pact and the League Covenant may be considered "complementary." Ships...
Submarines. As chief of the greatest surface naval power, Prime Minister MacDonald secured the assent of President Hoover to the basically British view that the submarine should be totally abolished. But there is no reason to think that France, Italy or Japan will ever give up this cheap and effective knife-in-the-belly. And the U. S. Navy would really like to keep it, as a coast-defense weapon. Abolition of the submarine will not be achieved at London and the chances of limitation look poor...
...problem in comparison, perhaps to be solved with the famed "Hoover Yardstick" (TIME, Sept. 23). Exactly what this is the Engineer-President has never publicly explained; and the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty to whom it has been privately explained have never been enthusiastic. But last week Ramsay MacDonald said in his hearty ringing way: "We shall deal with every class of warship, from dreadnoughts to submarines! Great Britain, with the full consent of the Admiralty up to now, is prepared to make proposals which will mean a considerable reduction in naval programs...
What had he really said? If correctly quoted he had indeed upset the nicely balanced applecart of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's ticklish Indian policy. There is little doubt that Scot MacDonald wants to give India the semi-independent status of Canada, but he does not dare. His majority in the House of Commons is too slim to risk on the Indian issue. Therefore, the canny Scot prompted the Viceroy, Baron Irwin. to make a carefully weaseled proclamation (TIME, Nov. 18). Some of it was supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some...