Word: armament
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...Green also set out to make himself an international armament expert became such a specialist that he was chosen last year to be the State Department's liaison man with Senator Nye's munitions investigation. Long before the President's proclamation last week, he had his office running smoothly. With his assistant and fellow-Pnncetonian. Charles Woodruff Vost, a 28-year-old State Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally...
...Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet may be in a position to benefit personally, however slightly, from the breakdown of armament negotiations...
Your note following my letter in TIME of May 13 on your and Senator Nye's thesis that munitions-makers cause wars asks me to consider that the French firm of Schneider-Crcusot secretly helped to finance Adolf Hitler and then propagandized at home for increased armament to defend La Patric. Don't you think that you are indulging in that fallacy in argumentation known as ignoration of the clench? You maintain-at least Senator Nye does (perhaps you only imply)-that munitions-makers cause wars: you prove only that they sell munitions...
...What is to be done," asked Russia's Litvinoff, "if a State demanding or seizing the right to armament is ruled by people who have announced to the whole world a foreign program consisting not only of a policy of revenge but also of unlimited conquest of foreign territory and destruction of the independence of entire States -people who, having publicly announced such a program, far from repudiating it, continuously circulate it and bring up their country in this spirit...
...Well, I am a hare's foot, as I said, so then I signed a statement in which I said I intended to publish all that was in the notebook. I didn't mean to publish it all, however-especially not the armament figures...