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...deceive ourselves. The political situation is disordered. Moreover, the armament fever has gripped most countries of the world. Thus further expansion of the German Air Force is necessary. . . . The German Air Force is the terror of our opponents and it will remain...
...China." Neither did the mysterious fire in December which razed an aviation training station at Yonago (cost: 150,000 yen) ; or, later, the explosion and fire which wrecked an Army powder factory at Maebashi. No one, it seems, knows what caused any of these accidents to Japan's armament program, but some war-weary Japanese guess sabotage...
...important consequences may follow from this agreement. Close economic ties with Brazil may result in close cultural relations and quite possibly military arrangements. Although the latter were ummentioned in the pact, there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom...
Main question taken up last week in the arms debate in Commons was whether or not to double the Government's total borrowing allowance for rearmament from $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000. (Of this year's contemplated armament appropriation, $1,150,000,000 will be paid for by taxation, $1,750,000,000 by borrowing. Probably no higher British income taxes will be imposed.) Bigger borrowing won 432-to-5, the five dissenters being confirmed pacifists...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, also speaking at the meeting, held that a policy of isolation means certain war. Our present armament increase shows that we realize the inevitability of our participation in a coming struggle. Friedrich's opinion was that we must play the "balance of power game" in order to ekep war from breaking out abroad...