Word: armament
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...favor all measures, either through the league or outside it, looking towards the concerted reduction of all classes of armament; but until such concert is reached among the nations, we favor the maintenance of our national defenses and condemn the Republican Administration for its neglect of our military and naval establishments...
...stands now, the Arms treaty begins to appear more and more ineffectual. In limiting the number of capital ships to be built by each country, it was significant merely in demonstrating that the world was coming to realize the needless expense of international armament competition. Beyond that, it accomplished nothing; first, because almost everyone recognized that the importance of capital ships was lessening, in view of the limitless future opening to aviation; and second, because it failed to deal adequately with the matter of secondary ships, such as cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Other powers, aware of the increasing value...
George Wharton Pepper, Senator from Pennsylvania, presented a resolution "advising" the President to call a world conference which should be a spiritual successor of the Hague Conferences of 1894 and 1907. It would discuss armament, law, dissociation of the present World Court from the League...
...exclusive of the 135,000 Territorial (or Militia) forces. A small bloc of former "conshies," or Conscientious Objectors, were the only M. P.'s in favor of reduction. The Government held that one nation disarmed in the midst of an armed world would not bring about a general armament reduction...
...Kuhl Hornbeck has been appointed Lecturer on History of the Far East. His services as technical expert for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in 1918 made him a recognized authority on this subject. He was also Technical Expert to the American Delegation at the Conference on Limitation of Armament in 1921 in Washington...