Word: armaments
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...French refusal to give any sanction to either reparations or armament reductions has been a serious blow to those optimistic of the results at Genoa. But Barthou has announced frankly and firmly that such proposals will not be even considered, inasmuch as France is perilously insecure in her position. Even the inclusion of those problems in the Russian proposals does not seem likely to shake her resolve...
...restricted by the process of wing-clipping which has gone on since the summons was issued in January. The decision of the United States not to take part, though admittedly the only wise course, will perhaps lessen the immediate effectiveness of the Conference. German reparations, sanctions, and land armament cannot receive much attention because Poincare has made Lloyd George agree that there shall be no attempt to revise the Treaty of Versailles. Lloyd George, on the other hand, is prevented by the Conservatives at home from proceeding as fast as France would like toward the recognition of Russia...
...security for her possessions as the provisions already quoted indicate. But the other powers gain in this way also; all four can feel that their lands in the Pacific are safer. In this fact lies the central importance of the Four-Power Treaty; it lessons the need for naval armament. If it fails, says Senator Lodge, disarmament will fail. As soon as certain of the Senators can make up their minds as to whether the treaty is good or bad--despite the undeniable handicap of not knowing who wrote it--the mere process of ratifying it should not take long...
...said, "the States of the world, burdened with overwhelming debts, hoped for release from competition in armament expenditure. The invitation of the United States to a conference upon limitation or armament was welcomed, but there was much skepticism as to possible results in a world where disorganization and suspicion prevailed...
...personalities at Washington", we have been informed of Mr. Balfour's taste in breakfast foods and we know that M. Viviani detests golf. "Inside" articles by special correspondents have told us on one day, that the Japanese delegates to a man would oppose any form of reduction in armament; on the next, that the Japanese policy was wholeheartedly behind the Hughes proposals. As a result we know really very little of what actually went on at Washington, either what was done, or who was doing it. Therefore, to have the whole work of the Conference summed...