Word: armaments
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...today, if he has anything to say in the matter, gas the man with whom he walked the streets of Heidelburg. However, fellow students have fought each other in the past, and the thought of friendly hands across the sea has too often been used to cover a new armament program to arouse boundless enthusiasm now. Personal contact and friendship, if confined to educational circles alone, has not in the past and probably will not in the future shake the foundations of petty and selfish patriotism. Nevertheless, while supposedly enlightened nations are busily engaged in determining the size of future...
...substitute) has taken on a powerful significance in late years. German research and diligence has found a way to make nitrogen artificially (giving unlimited source for explosives); has made synthetic petroleum; has evolved the small but potent Ersatz Preussen, a warship designed to outrank anything of similar tonnage and armament in other navies...
Statesman Stimson seemed relieved by this turn of affairs; but meanwhile in Washington, President Herbert Hoover let the White House correspondents announce that he stood ready to go as far as Ramsay MacDonald or anyone else, that the U. S. would gladly join the Great Powers in any armament slash, however deep. This same position has been taken by Dictator Benito Mussolini for many years. Despite his saber-rattling, the representative of Italy has declared, time after time, that she would join the rest of the world in reducing armaments: "To any common minimum, even the lowest...
...make for war. It makes for war not only among nations, like Great Britain, whose geographic and economic conditions leave them subject to suffering from the cutting off of food in case of war. (This condition is the greatest one cause of Great Britain's insistence upon large naval armament, is the greatest one cause leading many British statesmen to feel they must preserve in their people a readiness for war, a martial spirit, year in and year out, in peace time as well as war time). Treating food as a contraband makes for war also among nations likely...
...should do all within their power to further such a movement, still there is no reason to believe that education as it is today, does not accomplish this aim. A student of economy who learns that seventy-two cents out of every dollar paid in taxes goes to maintain armament of one kind or another, or who learns of the enormous possibilities of applying science to industries, will be the first to urge a lasting peace. Although the attitude with which these courses are given is naturally of primary importance, it is difficult to see how the colleges...