Word: armament
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When a new armament policy was launched by His Majesty's Government last week its clean-cut, realistic details were obscured by howls from beyond the Rhine...
Since the British electorate also appears to favor Labor, which in turn explicitly favors unilateral British armament reduction and giving India her freedom; and since Labor has a fine fighting chance to win the next General Election, members of the National Government, as moderate Conservatives, felt last week that what seemed to them popular folly must be resisted to the last. In the teeth of the pinko-pacifist straw vote, his Majesty's Government hurled before the House of Commons defense budget estimates providing in the coming fiscal year 6% more money for the Navy, 10% more...
...duration of the war, it glowered from the bow of this cruiser, ever ready to hurl six pound shells at a Spanish invader. Only once, however, did the "Harvard's" commander believe he saw an enemy ship; and then his manoeuvres were such that only armament stationed in the stern could have been effective...
Yesterday morning's editorial on the munitions question was a step towards the proper realistic point of view, but the whole popular pacifist balloon of ballyhoo needs more pricking than that. The current tendency to make black-bearded goats out of the armament maker appears to have anesthetized the national press; the mouthed righteousness of the political idealists in their scramble to mulct credit from the cause of peace has dangerously perverted a constructive situation into a heydey for the Hearsts. Internationalism may or may not be born to blush unseen in this ugly age: no question...
What the public, as well as their elected representatives must realize, is that the armament trade is an international problem, so complicated by technical, political, and moral issues as to render the likelihood of practical legislation virtually nil. The armament trade is bound to flourish so long as the world is torn by the political animosities that threaten it today...