28 JANUARY 1928, page 1

A Good Deal Of Excitement Has Been Caused By A

speech attributed to Admiral Plunkett, - Commandant of the New York Navy Yard. He was reported as saying that war was not only inevitable but was near at hand. In answer to the......

Unlike Mr., Coolidge, The Big Navy Party America Does Not

hesitate to say that the programme is the direct result. of the breakdown at Geneva. If our own Government had immediately produced an expansionist policy the result of - the......

News Of The Week

I T is by no means certain that the United States Congress Will - irk* the huge naval - progranime which the Secretary for the - Navy has prodiiCed. - But— let us make no......

The Times Correspondent Says That Mr. Coolidge Was Much...

by the resignation of Lord Cecil and took it to mean that there had been a " change of heart " in the British Government—in other words, a desire to water down the friendly......

Of Course, Voices Of Lamentation And Reproach Have...

raised in America, but the Washington correspondent of the Times - says that Congress in its present mood is definitely favouring the Big Navy party. Evidently something has......

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