Word: armament
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Said a German banker: "We are making large profits in our heavy industries, in our armament works, but we can draw out only 6%. The rest goes into Government bonds besides all the taxes we have to pay-taxes which are always growing bigger. These paper profits are of no value to industry or to ourselves...
...home in the U. S. after 51 years in France. Born to a Civil War brigadier on the military reservation at West Point 73 years ago, he went to Paris in 1885 as a penniless young engi eer fresh from Yale. His job was with Hotchkiss & Cie., French armament concern founded by a Connecticut Yankee who had sold arms to the Union until 1865, moved to France before the Franco-Prussian War. Engineer Benet has spent most of his life perfecting the Hotchkiss machine gun, now standard equipment in two of the world's biggest armies, French and Japanese...
Cried Frank Buchman: "I challenge Denmark to be a miracle among the nations, her national policy dictated by God, her national defense the respect and gratitude of her neighbors, her national armament an army of life-changers. Denmark can demonstrate to the nations that spiritual power is the first force in the world. The true patriot gives his life to bring about his country's resurrection. All those who oppose God's control are public enemies...
...This mad armament race is traceable to the fact that our governmental policies today are directed by men who have found that there is considerable financial gain for them in military preparedness. They have discovered that profits are greatest when blood is thickest. The next time we send our youths across the seas to die on foreign battlefields, let us call it a war to make the world safe for Dupontcracy...
...travelers are interned until Rome has time to see who is going to fight whom in an impending war. There are a pair of honeymooning Britons, a German scientist, a French Communist, all of whom give every evidence of being men of good will. There are also a French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport provides the required military "incident" by sending planes off to destroy Paris, when England...