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...Relief from the crushing burden of armament which is each day bringing them more closely to the brink of economic disaster...
From the CzechoSlovak seizure Germany will get seven major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told...
Just now that rate of armament is so high that Japan will have to strain hard not to lose ground. In fiscal 1939 Great Britain is spending $302,500,000 on new construction, the U. S. $211,113,000, Japan $16,420,950. Even allowing for the amount Japan saves on cheap labor and building costs, her present program is far from "equal to the strongest." Neither Britain nor the U. S. has planned six years ahead, but all indications are that at the end of that time their relative strength to Japan will be just about what...
Looking thoroughly existent, Dr. Buchman arrived last week in Manhattan, determined to sell Buchmanism under its newest name, "Moral Re-Armament," in the U. S. and Canada during the next three months. Dr. Buchman revealed that his Groupers had lately induced British milk dealers to place the initials M. R. A. upon 4,000,000 milk-bottle tops. Cried the founder: "I'm sure America will do as much. America will never lag behind in milk-bottle tops...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Key Pittman, (D., Nev.), chairman of the influential Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation which would enable the United States to lead a gigantic armament program in the Western Hemisphere by permitting sale of secret Army and Navy equipment to Latin American Nations...