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The Great Adventure at Washington, the Story of the Conference Mark Sullivan,Joseph Cummings Chase No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 249 - To provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself an effective and stable government...
Page 6 - Four general principles have been applied: (1) That all capital ship-building programs, either actual or projected, should be abandoned; (2) That further reduction should be made through the scrapping of certain of the older ships; (3) That in general regard should be had to the existing naval strength of the Powers concerned; (4) That the capital ship tonnage should be used as the measurement of strength for navies and a proportionate allowance of auxiliary combatant craft prescribed.
Page 5 - One program inevitably leads to another, and, if competition continues, its regulation is impracticable. There is only one adequate way out, and that is to end it now.
Page 4 - The world looks to this conference to relieve humanity of the crushing burden created by competition in armament, and it is the view of the American Government that we should meet that expectation without any unnecessary delay.
Page 7 - States proposes, if this plan is accepted — (1) To scrap all capital ships now under construction. This includes 6 battle cruisers and 7 battleships on the ways and in course of building, and 2 battleships launched.
Page 199 - It has stood the strain of common sacrifices, common anxieties, common efforts, common triumphs. When two nations have been united in that fiery ordeal they cannot at the end of it take off their hats one to the other and politely part as two strangers part who travel together for a few hours in a railway train.
Page 116 - ... could better its relative position unless it won in the race which it was the object of the Conference to end. It was impossible to terminate competition in naval armament if the Powers were to condition their agreement upon the advantages they hoped to gain in the competition itself. Accordingly, when the argument was presented by Japan that a better ratio — that is, one more favorable to Japan than that assigned by the American plan, should be adopted and emphasis was placed upon the asserted...
Page x - Whether it was spoken or not, a hundred millions of our people were summarizing the inexcusable cause, the incalculable cost, the unspeakable sacrifices, and the unutterable sorrows, and there was the ever-impelling question: How can humanity justify or God forgive? Human hate demands no such toll; ambition and greed must be denied it.
Page 6 - I am happy to say that I am at liberty to go beyond these general propositions, and, on behalf of the American Delegation acting under the instructions of the President of the United States, to submit to you a concrete proposition for an agreement for the limitation of naval armament.
Page 11 - slightly staggered and deeply disturbed expression" on his face, reminding one of a "bulldog, sleeping on a sunny doorstep, who has been poked in the stomach by the impudent foot of an itinerant soap-canvasser seriously lacking in any sense of the most ordinary proprieties".