Word: armaments
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...Parliament reassembled last week the biggest armament man in the world, trim, grey-mustached Eugène Schneider, stood figuratively at bay. All through Depression the giant Schneider-Creusot works have been racing to fill orders, their furnaces blazing and their lathes screaming as they turned out guns and projectiles for Japan, and for such other good customers as China. With the French budget now cracking under a deficit of seven and one-half billion francs, the Chamber's ruling Left-Center politicians have resolved in recent weeks to crack down on French munitions makers for a larger share...
...shot impractical. If Great Britain and France will not consent to an arms parley at Stresa, they must shepherd Hitler back to the Geneva conference, and a boycott would provide the quickest and least disastrous instrument for this purpose. Hitler must have a voice in the settlement of the armament question; he cannot accept the decision which seems impending at Geneva, he is unable to meet his colleagues at Stresa. The immediate point should be a provision for the statement of his claims to the victors of 1914, and if he must be forced to table, humanity decrees that Europe...
Unlike Japan, Germany will have violated a specific part of the Versailles Treaty if she goes ahead with her armament policies. The authors of the league covenant felt that some way better than bloodshed must be found to develop a sense of discipline to Europe. They believed that an economic boycott would bring a recalcitrant nation to terms faster than a threat of invasion. How long could Hitler last without provoking revolution if Germany were shut off from commercial intercourse as sharply as she was during the war? Many historians of the war felt that economic pressure really forced...
...resolution of 1921 by which the U. S. made a separate peace with Germany provides for the same bars to German rearmament as the Treaty of Versailles. President Roosevelt was reported strongly opposed to "sample" arms for Germany. The French Press raged that Chancellor Hitler was demanding immediate re-armament-which was not strictly the case-and French Premier Edouard Daladier. speaking at Vichy, held up the Fatherland's request for "samples" and rejection of "supervision" as evidence that Germany is ruled by a "cult of force." Most striking, however, was a British warning to the Reich, said...
...racket. They are especially aroused over the activities of the Schneider-Creusot firm. The current charge against it is that it sold 400 tanks to Germany, through the medium of Holland. As yet the truth of this particular accusation is not known, but the history of this and other armament firms would hold them guilty until proved without any question, innocent. Last summer Beverley Nichols turned his whimsical attention from the subtleties and aesthetic delights of gardening to the pastime of war, and his book "Cry Havoc," was the result. In several chapters there he points out with deserving bitterness...