Word: armaments
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...Control Mission, has admittedly become a farce. Everywhere the Allied inspectors have been received with studied politeness. Nowhere have they been able to find any trace of concealed arms or munitions. The Mission is satisfied that Germany is not prepared for war, that she has not materially contravened the armament clause of the Versailles Treaty...
...President indicated that he would oppose the elevation of U. S. naval guns on the ground that it would stimulate competitive naval building abroad, and that it would be better to have foreign governments spend their money paying their debts to us then putting such money into armament...
...pointed with pride to the League's aims and accomplishments in disarming the world, belittled the results of the 1921 Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament...
...spite of its dual functions and heavy armament, the boat flies 120 miles per hour, and has all the man- euvrability of the best military airplanes. But next to its amphibious characteristic, the most interesting feature of the plane is the inversion of the motor. This is a 400 horsepower twelve cylinder Liberty, turned upside down so as not to impede the pilot's vision...
...Armaments. In private session the Council decided to distribute as an official document to all Governments represented in the Council a plan for limitation of armaments devised by a group of Americans headed by Prof. J. T. Shotwell of Columbia University and General Tasker Howard Bliss. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League, stated that the report would soon be received by President Benes (Premier of Czecho-Slovakia) of the League Council and that he thought it was a serious and probably extremely useful study of the armament problem...