Into a green metal safe at the Department of State, a safe so flimsy that a good burglar could have opened it with his bare hands, was dropped one evening last week a very ordinary looking document which in all probability will govern the size of the U. S. Navy for the next five years. It was of foolscap size, with text printed in two parallel columns. It lacked red ribbons, red seals, great inky signatures, for it was only a copy, albeit an official and certified copy, of the naval compact agreed...
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