Word: armament
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attention has been called to an item in your issue of March 4, under the caption, "Speaker Urged Stronger Armament." This proves to be a report of my discussion of the Armament question at the Harvard Union on March 3. What I did in fact urge was that there is not the least reason for increasing armaments. The present war is, in my opinion, the outcome of the long series of conflicts of interest attending the era of colonial expansion, now practically closed. We never had a serious conflict of interest in this field, and consequently were not menaced...
...clock. The purpose of the organization is to arouse public influence to secure a systematic plan of national defence according to the plans of the National Security Commission created by Congress. Several prominent men, including the Hon. A. P. Gardner '86, M. C., who believe in national armament have been asked to speak on an increase in the number of battleships and a larger standing army. The active work of the society will be fully explained and all members of the University interested in such a project are invited to attend and take part in the discussion...
...many years. The effects of the war, he said, are unlike those of any previous struggle in that it has affected not special classes of humanity but has oppressed every family of the world. He gave special advice to this country, the richest in the world, to strengthen its armament moderately and more strenuously to provide relief for the children working in our factories and for the better care of our sexagenarians...
...Lunn served in the Spanish War in the Third Nebraska Infantry and has since kept well in touch with the armament question in this country. He will discuss the conflict between opportunism and Socialist principle in the attitude toward militarism, advancing his own solution of the problem...
...Effects on Armament and National Defense...