12 OCTOBER 1929, page 1

Happily, Something On A Much Higher Level Than A Parity

scheme is really the foundation of the naval arrangement. The foundation is the Peace Pact which dismisses war. War is no longer a legal political instru- ment for honest......

News Of The Week

A New Epoch T HE provisional arrangement on naval reduction which was in substance contrived by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and General Dawes and has now been announced as the result......

The Formula Of Parity As For The Formula Of Parity

for cruisers now published, it is curiously different from any that came even within sight of being accepted at the Geneva Naval Conference in 1927. The statesmen have taken the......

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The Coming Naval Conference On Monday The Foreign Office...

invitations to France, Italy and Japan to take part in a Naval Con- ference in London next January. The intention is that this Conference should take the place of the Conference......

They Would Have Been Entitled To Say That Great Britain

and America had conspired to establish a naval hegemony, and that the other Naval Powers were faced with a fact virtually accomplished. Great Britain and America from that point......