Word: armament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...force could reduce our Pacific islands easily and we couldn't defend them with our present armament...
...included a strange one, indeed: "These differences can be prevented from developing into a conflict only by a strong navy." Bismarck himself seems to be speaking. Yet the psychologists say that man learns from experience! Perhaps Admiral Phelps has forgotten those days before the war when nations piled up armament--all in the name of peace...
...between Great Britain of Japan and the United States. "Neither of them contemplates any struggle with this country, because they know that our present economic strength is so great as to make such an action almost suicidal, and because they have seen our peaceful intentions as displayed at the Armament Conference...
...President's opposition-both on the grounds of economy and in the hope of preventing competitive armament races-succeeded in forestalling the movement to increase the elevation of guns on the capital ships of the U. S. Navy...
...announcement of his resignation is made, his friends in Washington agree that Mr. Hughes has been "a great Secretary of State." He has smoothed out the internal organization of the Department; he triumphed at the Washington Limitation of Armament Conference; yet in a large sense his record has been mediocre. The treaty of peace with Germany was routine work. The liquor search treaty with Great Britain is not an astounding bit of diplomacy. The vigorous pressing of American rights and claims in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and in the Dutch oil fields was perhaps the more or less automatic result...