Word: armament
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...Trend Toward Increased Military Armament at least for Germany and possibly for some other nations...
...world have looked forward hopefully to this week at Geneva. There at last the League of Nations in a major world conference was to come to grips with the explosive question of armies and their limitation. Thirteen years ago the League of Nations Covenant solemnly promised a reduction of armament in the name of peace. According to most of the greatest orators of Europe, it was a promise made to 8,000,000 slaughtered men, mostly young.* Since 1921 the League, with one preparatory commission after another, has been almost continuously mulling and stewing over this matter, trying to devise...
...long vista of warrantable gloom, this is indeed a cause of cheer. For not only have 92 per cent of the 24,345 students voting declared, in general terms, for reduction of armament; no fewer than 63 per cent have urged independent disarmament by the United States without waiting for other countries...
Turning to foreign affairs Premier Molotov said that the coming Disarmament Conference (see p. 7) "will be an Armament Conference, each nation striving to disarm its rivals and to obtain a free hand to arm itself...
...saving Germany from an economic and perhaps a political crash, it had preserved the U. S. from the financial consequences of such a downfall. Two points which were not effectively rebutted by White House spokesmen: 1) Europe, for all its alleged penury, has made no serious movement toward armament reduction; 2) every dollar postponed on the War Debts must be made up by a new tax dollar from U. S. citizens...