12 OCTOBER 1929, page 2

We Have Stated The Case At Its Baldest And Bluntest.

It is well to be prepared. But we have no doubt that both France and Italy will be more amenable than their present mood suggests if only they can be induced to free their minds......

Freedom Of The Seas Shortly After He Arrived In Washington

Mr. MacDonald was taken off to Mr. Hoover's camp at the head-waters of the Rapidan in Virginia, where conversations were conducted in a woodland and mountain quietude. It is......

* * * * It Described A Scheme For The

" Reconquest of America," and it was appropriate to the form of the burlesque that it should be addressed to the British Prime Minister by Sir William Wiseman—who at the time,......

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The Prime Minister's Speeches We must add a few lines about the character of the Prime Minister's reception in America. He arrived at New York in the Berengaria " on Friday,......

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......

The " British Secret Document " We Referred Last Week

to the " British secret document " • which Mr. William B. Shearer has used as his trump card during his examination by the Sub-Committee of the American Senate. He said that......

France, Italy And The Conference Both Sides Are Agreed That

submarines ought to be abolished, and this brings us to the almost certain diffi* culties which Great Britain and America will encounter at the London Conference. We cannot......

On Monday Mr. Macdonald, Having Returned To Washington,...

Senate, where he was - recei vcd with notable enthusiasm. He spent the " week-end " at the White House and returned to the British Embassy on Tuesday. " It is due to Mr.......