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October 2, 1929 issue

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In his speech at the dinner of the Pilgrim Society in London, England, a few weeks ago Ambassador, after trying to explain how U.S. President Herbert Hoover "yardstick" might work when applied to the problem of Anglo-American naval parity, insisted that any agreement about naval reduction that might be reached ought to be so simple and clear that the average person who knows nothing about naval technicalities could understand it. Its report on the sinking of the steamship Vestris the British Board of Trade shattered a popular idol. It made plain to the public what sailors and ship-owners already knew, that the sea captain, once monarch of all he surveyed had dwindled to a shadow of his former glory.

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SEA-power; SPEECHES, addresses, etc.; HOOVER, Herbert, 1874-1964; PRESIDENTS -- United States; STEAMBOATS; UNITED States
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