Word: armaments
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...strike Secretary Hull that way. Taking the Japanese Government's curt note as an invitation to Britain, France and the U. S. to scrap their 35,000-ton limitation, the Secretary said: "The Government . . . regrets any development which has the effect of encouraging rather than discouraging races in armament building...
...idea of Germany, Italy or Japan sending a fleet of battleships conveying 500,000 soldiers across the seas in majestic array is simply fantastic. . . ." Gist of his advice to the Committee was to "probe to the very bottom" the commitments of foreign policy authorized by the President's armament program before endorsing his proposal...
...face of a barrage of questions from the floor touching on subjects which ranged from the naval armament program to a Mississippi sales tax, Governor Earle last night consistently declined to comment on matters on which he did not feel sufficiently well-informed...
Speaking of the proposed increase in naval armament, he said. "A big army and navy safeguards a country satisfied with its possessions: it puts one with territorial ambitions in danger of war." He did not cite specific examples...
...proposal that we plunge more deeply into the world armament race is a horse of another color. The President is right that tension in the world is high and that we must "think of our national security." But those arguments are losing their force through much repetition. They are always heard whenever armament increase is wanted; they are as inevitable as scare heads on the country's yellow journals. The fact is that we are already spending a billion dollars-a record peace-time high-on armament. Furious rearming on the part of Germany, Japan, and Italy has only begun...