Word: armament
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...growing conviction among intelligent observers that disarmament can from now on be but a gesture under any circumstances. Within the last fortnight, Mr. Wells, of singular prophetic accuracy, has declared that no soldier is as obsolete today as the Greek phalanx. General Pershing said that the recognized armament of any nation in the next war will have nothing to do with its success or failure. And even Mr. Coolidge has been quoted to the effect that God and righteousness are the only true national weapons of defense...
...Charles M. P. A. de Broqueville was speaking last week in Brussels before the Belgian Chamber. There were those before him who remembered that he spoke, in 1912, as Premier, to much the same effect. He was heeded then, and Belgium embarked (1913) upon a five-year program of armament. But the Germans came within a year...
That was what the Allies did last week. Marshal Foch gave Germany a clean bill of disarmament; and forthwith Article 213 of the Treaty automatically operated to transfer supervision of German armament from the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission to the Council of the League of Nations...
...seven long years some 200 Allied officers have been living well at Germany's expense, each with his own automobile and his German chauffeur. Endlessly they have patrolled up and down Germany, inspecting this garrison, that fort, this ship, that dye factory, to see that armament was not being amassed contrary to the Treaty of Versailles. While the so potent officers have been motoring up and down the land, their headquarters, the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission at Berlin, has hummed with the click of typewriters, and reverberated to the tread of generals. All this has cost Germans a pretty...
...true. But the Allies have come to realize that Germany, a great republic, cannot be forever fettered down to the letter of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany has disarmed to an extent sufficient to render France safe from aggression. Then why not accept the practical minimum of German armament now achieved, and forget that the Versailles Treaty calls for virtually total disarmament...