Word: armaments
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...million destinies, he had in his grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...
While in Washington last week lawyers with unaristocratic names fired questions at J. P. Morgan and Thomas W. Lament in gangster argot (see p. 12), in London there was decorum and courtesy as the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture and Trade in Arms examined great armament tycoons...
Britain's foremost armament firms, Vickers Ltd. and Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., sent their joint Board Chairman, sleek, tall General Sir Herbert A. Lawrence. once Chief of Staff of the B. E. F. in France, and their bland, trim, assured General Manager Sir Charles Craven, famed in Mayfair for his mannerism of "talking down to the ruling class." The Chairman of the Royal Commission asked if in Vickers' experience bribery is necessary to obtain armament orders outside of Britain...
...charge of the Foreign Office while "Cleopatra" as Hoare is known to the House of Commons, will be placed in charge of the vital and difficult task of re-organizing and linking the armed forces of the Empire. It is virtually accepted in England that a colossal re-armament plan will soon be put under way and that the next budget will devote more to the Army, Navy and Air Services than has ever been voted before in history...
...Belgium, today frankly regard everything else as secondary to the menace of a Germany which is putting over one secret deal after another with Britain, the first to tear up the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24), the second to tear up the air armament clauses (TIME, Jan. 6), and perhaps others suspected in Belgium but as yet undisclosed. Since King Leopold's sister is the Crown Princess of Italy, family ties make His Majesty a pleader of Italy's cause in addition to Belgium's at the Court of St. James...