by Rich Horton
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About the Editor
Rich Horton is an Associate Technical Fellow in Software for a major aerospace corporation. He is also a columnist for Locus and for Black Gate. He edits a series of Best of the Year anthologies for Prime Books, and also for Prime Books he has co-edited Robots: The Recent A.I. and War & Space: Recent Combat.
Footnotes
1 The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 had set the ratio of capital ships among the US, Britain, and Japan at 5:5:3. This was the ratio Japan got adjusted in 1930.
2 Allowing Germany to re-arm also let the German government heave a big sigh of relief. The harsh Treaty of Versailles, especially those articles about neutering Germany, made a lot of Germans very angry and some of them joined a group of goose-stepping thugs called the German Nationalist Socialist Party, which scared everyone, including the government. After those provisions of the Treaty were scrapped, the thugs got no electoral support at the next election in 1930, and faded away. Heck, they are literally now a footnote of history, like this one.
3 Well put. Weeton’s guess was fairly accurate, one of the few times early colonists and philologists were. Other places, he’s less reliable.
4 Elenkua N’Kuba, ed. Weeton’s Oud Narrative: A facsimile reproduction. Elsevier, the Hague: 2231.
