Word: armaments
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This is the first Forum to be held under the new constitution. The second Forum of the year, on the armament question, and the fourth, on beer, resulted in ties; and the third, on President Wilson's administration resulted in a victory for his supporters...
...debate between the University team and Yale on the armament question Friday night therefore is of unusual importance in that it will be a fruitful source for information that is carefully authenticated, pre-digested, and served up in most tempting style for the inert undergraduate. The men of both teams have been spending busy weeks preparing their arguments. They have sifted their facts thoroughly, eliminated the chaff, and dressed them up in the best possible garb. No speaker will make a point of showing the seamy side of his case; but hostile critics will come before and after...
...answer of the militarist doubtless is that he is quite ready to give up armaments as soon as the other nations do, but till then let us protect ourselves. And it is just there that the pacifist of today, and especially of the United States, has an opportunity unequalled in all history to serve the cause of civilization. When the present war is over the belligerents will be in a state of exhaustion from which they cannot recover in less than a generation at least. Men and women throughout the entire civilized world will have endured and seen suffering such...
...doubtless the part of wisdom to sacrifice a portion of its wealth and resources in national defences. But no one can possibly conceive of the United States as in a position analogous to that of Belgium; or of the summer military camps as other than part of a new armament policy entered into in competition with similar policies of other nations...
...assumptions on which you say the arguments in favor of these camps are based is that "adequate armament" is itself the best guarantee for peace. Has not this been proved in the case of Switzerland during the present war? That country by means of a military system, which many of our experts advise for adoption here, has compelled both France and Germany to respect her neutrality for the past eight months. To see what her condition might be today without a well-organized militia, one only has to look at Belgium. Geographical conditions have aided her, but those alone would...