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Topics under consideration will include the question of the place of partisanship in the defense program; participants will also argue whether the program undermines our democratic institutions, and whether capital and labor can both make equal contributions towards solving the problem of rapid armament...
...country through which infantry, engineers and pack-mule armament had to make their way inch by soggy inch...
...statement quoted above is supposed to be based on "our examination of the records and platforms of the various political parties" it is in order to quote from the 1940 Socialist Platform. Under the heading 'War and Totalitarianism' it says in part, "the search for war profits and armament economics leads straight to war . . . To the whole world let America say: 'We will not share in the collective suicide of your wars.'" Also in its resolution on war adopted' at its National Convention, April 7, 1940 and printed with its platform it says:" The first demand of the American people...
...peace when he talked with Hitler at Munich. That he was not altogether naive in his appraisal of the European situation was evident by his having ably stocked Britain with foodstuffs. When he was convinced of Hitler's bad faith he did foresee the need for British armament. Yet there was little credit due him for having made a "deal" to stall for time when the arrival of war showed he had failed to capitalize on delay, his armament program had not progressed much beyond the promissory scale...
...five-year survey of Neville Chamberlain's remarks on the British armament drive makes a poor epitaph for one whose family served the Empire in high station for 64 years...