Word: armament
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...limitation of armaments is important, but it is not decisive as an agency of peace. National armament is the creature of national policy. If a nation cherishes policies which impair the freedom and prevent the development of other nations, it is bound to arm in self-protection against the resentment and the fear of other nations. It may agree temporarily to limit its armament, provided those who suffer from its aggression or are opposed to its pretensions agree to a similar limitation. But in that event disarmament is an advantage to the aggressor. It frees his hand. The helplessness...
...peace-loving statesman fails to obtain the guarantee, he will not delude himself with the idea that by disarming he has protected China, diminished the occasion for future war or promoted the security of the world. The Administration has done well to associate the proposal to limit naval armaments with the proposal to do away with one of the chief reasons for their existence. It would not do well to insist on the limitation without having succeeded in securing its regional international agreement. The public should test its work by its success in eradicating the causes of international fear, hostility...
...Whereas the government of the United States, appreciating these facts, has invited the powers to meet in conference in Washington to discover means through which the reducing and limitation of armament by international agreements may be realized, and to promote through amicable discussions universal good will...
...taken in summoning the Washington conference and our entire sympathy with the purposes of the conference, pledging our faithful support to the United States delegates in their effort to alleviate the burdens of war and preparations for war through mutual understanding and through world reduction and limitation of armaments and that we do hereby urge upon all delegates that their efforts shall not cease until some solution be found whereby the possibility of war may be minimized and whereby at least a considerable portion of the vast amount of energy and money expended by the nations for armament...
...intend to enter these class trials are instructed by the Council to come prepared to speak on the following subject: "Resolved that the United States should not spend for replacing or increasing her armament more than was spent on these two items...