Word: armament
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...most among the year's naval novelties were Japan's new 8,500-ton cruisers of the Mo garni class. Looking over the specifications-15 6.1-inch guns, length of 625 feet, speed of 33 knots-he decided that it was almost impossible for that speed and armament to be kept within the 8,500-ton limit. Dr. Parkes hints that they will turn out to be 10,000-ton cruisers. "This battery," said he, referring to their 6.1-inch guns, "reduces our own 7,000-ton Leanders to impotence." Editor Parkes decided that the fairest match...
...seen fit to print. One obtains the impression from your editorial tone that liberalism is synonymous with passive indifference to the menaces of war which are being brought home to every liberal minded student in every national development. We need only point to Fascist Germany, Imperialist Japan, and the armament competitions in the face of disarmament conferences. To us Armistice Day is significant time to render a protest against such indifference as we find to these dangers. As members of Harvard University we feel that our protest should be conducted on the grounds of the University. And the presence...
Araki barked: ''Should Japan fail to carry out our armament replenishment program and the second naval supplementary plan, the red figures in our budget will become black, it is true, but the prospect of establishing a Far Eastern peace on an enduring basis [i. e. under Japanese dominance] will be lost and the people of Asia will become permanent servants of the white races...
...Blum, leader of the Socialists whose votes have been indispensable to the Daladier coalition, was all for trans forming the entire French armament industry into a state monopoly. The Premier's plan was to have the state buy into all munitions firms, install a state supervisor in each factory to check the real extent of the business and make sure that the Government gets its share of the profits. Before these Blum and Daladier projects reached the Chamber they led to a battle royal in its Finance Committee which first voted last week for Blum Armament Monopoly, then reversed...
...Blum the Premier shouted that, if defeated, he would go to the nation and tell the voters of France that their budget had been wrecked "because of the obstinacy and intriguing of the Socialists on whom the full responsibility must rest!" Frenchmen had only academic interest in the armament trust. But they cared vitally about new taxation. Officials called out the police and the Garde Républicaine, who with steel helmets, bayonets and barricades of auto buses, protected the Chamber from an angry mob. Within sound of their cries, the Deputies acted quickly. Premier Daladier was defeated...