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...favor of aggressive warfare had received the week before, continued blunt. He charged England with instigating the 1920 Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments in order that the U. S. Navy might be reduced and Britannia left free to rule the world's commerce. Sir James Arthur Salter, onetime Assistant Director of the Transportation Department at the British Admiralty, thereupon arose. Said he: "I assure you upon my honor. ... I have never in the most intimate private conversations heard a whisper of the kind of farsighted, long-directed, carefully thought out, carefully worked out policy of which I have...
...Olympic (White Star)-Sir James Arthur Salter, Financial and Economic Director of the League of Nations...
...Bonn approved, with minor reservations; said the Plan had removed one or two of the larger flies from the Versailles Treaty ointment. Sir James Arthur Salter, chief of the League's financial section, in his turn likened the Experts' job of work to the bridging of many gulfs. John H. Fahey, a major fixture in the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, skimmed over the high points of a world trade revival that he and other business men had envisioned springing all golden from the Experts' foreheads...
...Exhibit B of the week. Sir Arthur Salter's round table had been pouring over the League of Nations for days. There had been dissension. Now the debate was brought out into Chapin Hall, where the Army and Business (pro) locked epithets with the Navy and miscellaneous interests (con). Rear Admiral John A. Rodgers, outspoken mariner, "shocked" a Britisher, was hissed by a woman. The tumult over, Sir Arthur obliged by answering League questions, dubbing the U. S. "Arcadia," to keep his remarks free from improprieties...
...Olympic (White Star) ? George F. Baker, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank (Manhattan) ; Willis H. Booth, President of the International Chamber of Commerce, Vice President of the Guaranty Trust Co. (Manhattan) ; Sir James Arthur Salter, Economic and Financial Director of the League of Nations; A very Hop wood and Arthur Richman, playwrights...