Word: armaments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under the treaty without our consent, and the Congress, through its control of appropriations, has that situation under its control...
Lange also learned from Acheson that the U.S. was not certain just how much armament help Norway could get if she joined the Atlantic pact; the whole problem of allocating arms to Western Europe was still under study...
...Defense Pact as tentatively drafted by the seven powers.* It provides that an attack on any of the signatories is an attack on all. In return for this protection, Norway would be asked by the Western powers to discuss joint defense with the powers and submit to them her armament needs...
Wave of Indignation. When peace broke out, François de Wendel became chairman of France's famous Comité des Forges, a sort of super lobby combining all of France's steel, iron and armament firms. He sold arms to white men, black men, yellow men. When governments opposed him, he felled them by withholding credit in his capacity as a regent of the Bank of France. When newspapers opposed him, he bought them. In the French "Who's Who," he described himself simply as "Maître de Forges" (iron master...
...didn't see them-a sense a feeling of their constant presence and nearness: black men and women and children breathing and waiting inside their barred and shuttered homes, not crouching cringing shrinking, not in anger and not quite in fear: just waiting, biding since theirs was an armament which the white mati could not match nor-if he but knew it-even cope with: patience . . . this land was a desert and a witness . . . of the deliberate turning as with one back of the whole dark people on which the very economy of the land itself was founded...