Word: armament
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...less loyal to His Majesty, the Laborite Daily Herald, while urging Parliament to start a similar inquiry in Britain, declared: "The use of such names [as the King's] in the intrigues of rival armament firms to sell weapons is further evidence of the complete lack of scruple which characterizes the methods of these 'merchants of death...
...shortage of men and equipment the committee blamed lack of funds and a niggardly Congress: ''The evidence . . . indicates clearly that the whole Army, as well as the Air Corps, is short of modern armament, equipment and transportation, as well as an adequate munition reserve." Nevertheless: "In military aviation . . . the U. S. stands second of the great powers insofar as total numbers of Army and Navy airplanes are concerned. . . . However, the fact is clear that . . . our Army combat aviation appears to have been allowed to fall below other leading aviation powers of the world in strength. . . . The fear that...
...possession to be defended." The root of economic disorder, says Author Brailsford. is the institution of property. A planned capitalism is impossible, "a contradiction in terms." If the capitalist world is not to end in fire in some near tomorrow, then some industries, all banks must be nationalized, armament firms put under an international authority, the League of Nations replaced by something more potent...
...sympathetic of men, President Roosevelt's grey and graceful little "Disarmament Ambassador," Norman H. Davis. The chat at No. 10 between Scot MacDonald and Tennesseean Davis made clear that if the scheduled 1935 Naval Conference is held at all, it will be not a Disarmament but an Armament Conference. Somewhat pathetically the Prime Minister uttered Earl Beatty's arguments which are, in a nutshell, that Japan's new truculence and her seizure of Manchukuo make it imperative to strengthen the Royal Navy...
Seldom does smart Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff go home to Moscow empty handed. In Geneva last week, while no one else was getting anything substantial at the Dis armament Conference (see col. 3), he put screws on King Alexander of Jugoslavia to recognize the Soviet Union. Roly-poly Comrade Litvinoff had just obtained in Geneva recognition from the other two countries of the Little Entente, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. Since King Carol was at last able to stomach Bolsheviks, why should not his brother-in-law King Alexander...