Word: armament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armament. "The public debt has a direct connection with the question of military preparedness. To the extent that we are able to reduce our public debt and to eliminate the vast charges of interest thereon, to that extent are we adding to our military preparedness. . . . What we need, and all that we need, for national protection is adequate preparedness. I am for adequate military preparedness. It is a question which I always give the most serious thought in my recommendations to the Congress in the budget message. As Commander in Chief of the Army and of the Navy, the Chief...
...question of increase naval armament thus brought up and its relation to the treaty is of less importance, however, than the light it sheds upon our government's attitude. If one treaty is thus considered another "scrap of paper", the whole fabric of our peaceful ideals will be shown to be nothing more than that. Yet we have seen fit to preach peace abroad. The accusation is obvious, and most of the facts substantiate it outwardly. America has done little enough to repair the damage of the war. It was previously hoped that at least we meant well...
...will be until the millenium. Soldiers have said that war was hell, and have awaited eagerly the wars that brought promotions. Statesmen have declared that their particular war was a war to end war, and have returned from signing treaties of peace to sing appropriations for bigger and better armament...
...Meanwhile the British auxiliary warship Kiawo, a mere, armored river steamer, lay beside the captured vessels, covered at point blank range by the Yang artillery. To break this deadlock, intolerable to British amour propre, H. M. S. Cockchafer and H. M. S. Wigdeon, both river warships of the highest armament, steamed close to shore, drew the fire of the land batteries and shelled the city of Wanhsien...
What are peacetime armaments? Straightway the Latins, all of whom maintain large military reserves, declared that these are not "peacetime armaments," but that an armed police force-now Germany's chief defense-is indubitably a "peacetime armament...