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...this is true. Taxes would be needed only for the upkeep of the ships, a negligible amount in comparison to those required for building and maintaining new ones. And even admitting that the League of Nations will be adopted, each country must keep increasing its naval armament until the "Executive Council shall formulate plans for effecting . . . . . reduction." Most people will agree that the proposed reduction is intended to be gradual, caused by discontinuing to build more ships rather than by destroying ones already built...
...Lodge, that of reserving to each nation the right of self-determination in questions of domestic policy would make of the League a veritable dumb-show. For if the question of immigration were to be exempted from the League's jurisdiction, why not likewise the questions of limitation of armament and the manufacture of munitions...
...proposed plan of universal military service there arises the dual question of principle and detail which must be satisfactorily solved before we venture farther into so uncertain a project. Among those pacifists who make it a point to quash every scheme of national defense which savors of compulsion or armament, whether or not such a course be in fact an expedient one, no proposal concerning military service will ever enjoy widespread support. We should remember, however, that so long as the possibility of war in the future exists, no matter how pleasing the prospect or how buoyant our hopes...
Lectures: 7.15 P. M., New Lecture Hall. March 12: Captain Hodson (B. M. M.), "Machine Guns." March 13: Lieutenant Morize, "Armament." March 14: Professor G. C. Whipple, "Camp Sanitation" (lantern slides...
...battalion, according to the new tables of organization now used by the United States Army. Among the subjects taken up in the work this summer will be drills in close and extended order, signalling, topography, entrenchments, instruction in the use of the bayonet and grenades, combat exercises, armament, military hygiene, first-aid, camp sanitation, aeroplane photography, tactics, and the plan of campaign as demonstrated in the present war. The tuition fee will be $20 for either course...