Word: armament
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...What American formerly ambassador to two great nations urges limitation of armament...
...Japanese right, but Japanese field guns and bombing planes stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled for their lives across the frozen steppes...
...radios from the lie de France made clear that Premier Laval will urge the French plan of limiting only armament budgets; whereas the U. S. has always maintained that "Disarmament" or "Limitation" will prove a mockery if it is not based on scrapping actual war boats and guns, limiting actual trained reserves...
...British Government. He invited to Paris the great Lord Reading, special Envoy to the U. S. in 1917, today British Foreign Secretary. London papers pictured Lord Reading as about to make two points to M. Laval: 1) that Britain stands with the U. S. in favor of armament cuts; 2) that Britain still urgently desires the International Fiscal Conference proposed some time ago by Philip Snowden, hopes that M. Laval will discuss it with Mr. Hoover...
After the admission of Mexico there were speeches. Three were important. Dino Grandi, Italy's black-fringed young Foreign Minister, stood up and proposed "that all nations should reach an immediate general agreement with a view to arriving at the suspension of the execution of their new armament programs," at least until the end of the approaching dis armament conference in February. German delegates applauded wildly, but other wise, like most suggestions that the League members should actually do something, the speech was greeted with shocked silence...