Word: armament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When to weeks had elapsed without an open session of the Armament Conference there were signs of impatience and suspicion among those who were eager for news of its doings. It seemed to some of these that decisions has been unnecessarily delayed, and to others that perhaps there were sinister influences at work to prevent any real decision whatever. This impatience, if not the suspicion, was natural even though not quite reasonable...
...dramatic surprise or eloquent oratory has characterized the second stage of the Armament Conference. It has been a stage of hard work over an immense amount of details. It is in this stage that the statesmanship of the responsible men in this Conference is to be tested. The principles which they have accepted will serve the purpose for which this Conference assembled only as they are translated into action in specific cases...
...Institute of International Education has offered three prizes, of $150, $100, and $50, for essays on the general subject of "The Far East--The Key to the Armament Problem". An essay may be on any of the following three specific subjects...
...firme and stable earth", America has been "a favored nation". This last phrase is the keynote of President Harding's Thanksgiving Proclamation. It goes almost without saying that scarcely another Thanksgiving Day in our history has come at so appropriate a time as does tomorrow. With the Armament Conference proceeding with unexpected rapidity, with a Chinese agreement of momentous significance concluded only this Monday, the situation is no longer gloomy. This country has sought for and won--to use another phrase from the Proclamation--"the privilege of service". For all of which, thanks may well be given...
...continent. The most recent stop towards coherency is the proposed plan to furnish light and power to eleven states from a single plant. It is obvious, then, that history in this age of world unity must differ from that of ages past. Those who claim that the Armament Conference will be just another convention of scheming diplomats are as mistaken as those who believe that the Russian upheaval is a glorious repetition of the French Revolution. We can expect more and better results from the congress that of a century ago at Vienna, for we are as aware...