Word: armament
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...hearty British cheer, which brought the House of Commons to their feet, rang out last week for the League of Nations. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, in launching his $1,000,000,000 British armament program (see col. 3), had just advanced the theory that this will not be "unilateral rearmament." Although the billion dollars' worth of new arms will all be in one nation's hands, it will not be unilateral rearmament, according to Mr. Baldwin, because ''it is [a] strengthening [of] our defensive forces within the framework of the League for the sake of international...
...eyes of Members of Parliament last week the League of Nations was thus taking on the aspect of a device providing His Majesty's Government with unlimited excuse for armament and unlimited discretion in using their new weapons as they pleased. In one of the great demonstrations of this decade, the House of Commons rose and gave cheer on cheer for Mr. Winston Churchill, now slated to be the next First Lord of the British Admiralty, when he worked himself up last week to this climax...
...Samuel, as leader of the main Liberal group and David Lloyd George as chief of his Liberal faction, virtually merged their invectives against the National Government with those of Labor, all opposition parties conceding that the only possible attack on Conservative Baldwin's sounding of pro-League, pro-Armament and pro-British notes is to accuse the Prime Minister furiously of not having sounded them soon or loud enough. In foreign policy they are what British subjects want. Only the black misery of Britain's depressed areas and the savage discontent of her leaderless proletariat can boil...
...impossible to subscribe to the logic of our esteemed contemporary, whose editors apparently believe that all of the people can be fooled all of the time by a trick phrase. There are some among us who have yet to develop sufficient credulity to visualize peace and heavy naval armament hand in hand in a sisterly and companionable fashion...
...riding academy. The next afternoon the sheriff sent eight deputies to seize the bodies of John and Sophie Crempa. As usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander was a non-Pole, Deputy Sheriff Edward Carolan. Its armament: six .32 and .38 revolvers, one shotgun, two tear-gas guns. Mr. Carolan deployed his men around the house, broke a window with a stick and had his men fire tear-gas shells into the house...