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...Disarmament Conference know that they were tired of talk. The veterans were representatives of two international associations with names as awkward as their own twisted limbs, the Federation Inter alliee des Anciens Combattants (FIDAC) and the Conference Internationale des Associations de Mutiles de la Guerre et des Anciens Combattants (CIAMAC...
...hall. Plump "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, president of the Disarmament Conference, was there, as was the League's Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond. But the only disarmament delegate to attend was Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. Because Adolf Hitler refused them passports, no German veterans were present. CIAMAC's President Maximilian Brandiesz of Austria read a message from Berlin...
Even the applause sounded different from most conferences. The veterans banged their crutches on the floor. Before adjourning, FIDAC and CIAMAC presented a joint resolution demanding universal arbitration, a law against recourse to force, security, effective disarmament, and suppression of all private profits from munitions. Veterans of delegations all the way from Great Britain to Denmark and the Territory of Memel approved this resolution. The American Legion sent no U. S. delegates but was reported to have approved a separate weak-tea resolution, presented by the Italians, which made no mention of private munitions profits...
...FIDAC's members come entirely from Allied countries, CIAMAC's preponderantly from Germany and Austria...
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