Word: armaments
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...Villard said, "Before the Spanish War we didn't worry about being attacked, and we managed to get along with an army of only 26,000 men, but now, as the greatest naval power in the world except one, which is bankrupt at present, we say we need armament...
...This trade is a trade in murder!" rasped Major Clement Richard Attlee, presenting Labor's motion. "Armament companies, while not the sole nor the greatest cause of war, deliberately work against peace and disarmament. Take Vickers [Britain's No. 1 armorers]. In 1932 Vickers advertised its wares in German papers-weapons forbidden to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles! And who made the anarchy in China? It exists because China is one of the best fields for selling guns and munitions. Because nationals of the Civilized World have been arming the Chinese bandits...
...John then dwelt on the advantage to the State of having private capital assume the risk of maintaining in peacetime arsenals on which the State's very existence depends in time of war. When Major Attlee compared the armament traffic to the whiteslave traffic and insisted that at the very least the manufacture of munitions should be taken out of private hands and made a prerogative of government, Sir John Simon neatly beclouded the issue with a sneer, "Does the Right Honorable Member mean that privately-owned brothels are wrong but state-owned brothels right?" Finally and flatly...
Before its adjournment last June, the 73rd Congress decided to have a look at the U. S. armament business. Its members had been reading books, looking at magazines and listening to lectures, and on the theory that gunsmiths and powder-makers instigate wars to sell their goods, the Senate created a special investigating committee and put slim, sleek-haired Senator Nye of North Dakota in charge...
Early in the investigation, a Driggs armament salesman brought the name of George V into the limelight by insisting that His Britannic Majesty had intervened personally in an attempt to swing a sale of anti-aircraft guns to Poland from Driggs to Vickers. Even before Britain had recovered from its shocked horror at this statement other big names came tumbling out into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez...