Word: armaments
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...actual Nazi program of complete national mobilization for a knockout blow was based on it, after a six-month study in 1934. Say they: he also has a pre-M-Day plan. All that has come out of the White House thus far-$1,182,000,000 for armament, plus "more than a billion dollars" for more armament, a request for additional authority to call out the National Guard and reservists-all that is merely educational, preliminary; a step-by-step, carefully graduated plan to prepare the Nation imperceptibly for whatever may come, economic or political...
...response, once more Canadian armament was given a slap in the rump. After a four-hour meeting with the War Committee, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced in Parliament that "sweeping measures" would be taken. A third and fourth division would be raised by enlistment; the first division, already abroad, would be reinforced: the second division sent abroad as soon as possible. To speed the lagging Empire Air-Training Plan, the Hon. Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, twice-wounded, once-decorated veteran of World War I, was appointed head of a new Ministry of National Defense for Air. Work...
...influence will invade the Western Hemisphere to such an extent that the U. S. A. will find itself actually fighting the German juggernaut in our own sphere of influence; or, in the effort to discourage his stepping into South America, we will be forced to compete with his armament production...
...Friday and chief traveling companion on the great appeasement junkets. A scathing critic of Munich, Mr. Bracken since break of war used his Financial News to harass the now ousted Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon-created Viscount Simon last week-for not spending fast enough on British armament. Conservative Party whips used to call Brendan Bracken "The Red-Headed Beast," last week found him suddenly installed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister...
...openly in case of an Allied defeat. Already Walter Lippmann is calling for sacrifices for "defense" that are no different from those demanded by war itself. Already civil liberties are being drastically curtailed, especially by new laws directed against aliens. Phenomenal sums are being demanded by the President for armament. We are only a short distance away from an actual state...