Word: armaments
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...gain for Britain, but they had some bugs. Their plates were just thick enough, in the words of one U. S. naval officer, "to keep out the water and small fish." Their machinery was delicate and no longer new. They had, in the British view, rather too much torpedo armament (twelve tubes) and not enough anti-aircraft (one 3-inch). British ammunition would not fit their 4-inchers, but Franklin Roosevelt apparently engaged to fill them chockablock with U. S. ammunition and promised more where that came from. The British crews would have to be trained in action, as there...
...Back in 1918 peace as an actual fact astounded the world hardly less than the outbreak of the war. . . . On the battlefield we were winning. . . . It was the moment that all German effort during three years had played for ...Germany kept none of her colonies. . . . In the matter of armament she proved as tractable, and for as good a reason. . . . Disarmed, she had naught to fear from democracies disarmed also...
Symbol first of appeasement and then of easygoing armament, the onetime Prime Minister has for weeks been under great popular pressure to get out. But Chamberlain is still head of the Conservative Party, controls the dominating Conservative bloc of 374 in the House of Commons. Last week, however, suffering aftereffects of an intestinal operation, he had an excellent explanation should he fail to return to his office...
...begins this week. Last week a familiar trumpet of discord, Montreal's 51-year-old, 200-lb. Mayor Camillien Houde, came out against registration. Fiery, fancy French-Canadian Mayor Houde has no reverence for the Ottawa Government: in January 1939 he criticized the Federal Government's minuscule armament effort as "dangerous and leading to war. . . . What enemies have we?" He has no reverence for England: six months before the war, he warned that if England and Italy should ever fight, French-Canadians in Quebec might side with Italy. Nor has he any reverence for authority. When the King...
...Labor Parties, made rearmament superfluous. England did not rearm in 1935 either. For this, Author Kennedy thought no one leader or party was to blame. Said he: "The blame . . . must be put largely on the British public. For 1935 was the year of the General Election." British voters postponed armament...