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Show Crucial Stage Near in Arms Talk Geneva, Switzerland A crucial stage has been reached in the tripartite tripar-tite naval conference. Whether events at this critical turning point push their pourparlers toward an actual rupture or toward an actual treaty undoubtedly undoubt-edly depends chiefly on Great Britain. The United States, actuated, it is said, by a conciliatory desire to understand British cruiser needs and meet them as far as possible, practically told the naval delegates that it would go to the i extreme maximum limit of 400,000 tons, which is 100,000 tons more than the maximum for cruisers contained in the original American proposal, but strongly indicated simultaneously that it would exert continued effort to put limitation well under 400,000 tons. |