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...Lloyds was laying 5-to-1 on war somewhere within six months. Massed troops around Austria might mean nothing-but that territory remained the powder box of Europe. More informative than such fearful talk was an article appearing last week in the March FORTUNE on the world's armament industry. In it were detailed the companies which make war possible and the men who sell the products of those companies internationally. Prime FORTUNE facts...
...Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Lord Balfour and Dean Inge of St. Paul's. Its greatest salesman was a Greek by the name of Basileios Zacharias, who now, in his dotage, is known to the world as Sir Basil Zaharoff. Sir Basil is responsible for the ultimate technique of armament salesmanship: Sell one country an order and use it as a talking point to sell a larger order to a potential enemy. After Sir Basil had sold Greece its first submarine, he promptly induced Turkey...
...opinion of many people today cannot be obtained without war. She gave notice of her intention to resign from the League as a bluff to gain some of these concessions, but it is not certain that the bluff has failed. The concessions she wants are equality of armaments, either by Allied disarmament or by permission to rearm; the Saar Basin, the Polish Corridor, her former colonies and the Anschluss with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar...
...matter, but the error would not be the one Mr. Chase thinks he sees. It is not that research is valuable to a teacher in science and unnecessary to a teacher in the humanities, but that it should be pursued in a different way, with a different mental armament. Mr. Chase sees only the differences and misses the common element, that research is a necessary element in the creation of a scholar and teacher, either in chemistry or classics, though very different in procedure and method in the two cases...
...Japan will probably withdraw from the London Naval Treaty of 1931 before this December," said Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I., L.L.D., Lowell lecturer last October, in an interview with the CRIMSON, "and this will lead to an extensive armament program in both England and America...