Word: disarm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Security. With the idea of mak-ing the world safe to disarm, the disarmament committee of the assembly unanimously approved the French project of empowering the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, while arranging for a general conference on limitation and reduction of arms, to study means of making arbitration compulsory and of instituting a graduate system of security among Nations (TIME, Sept...
...major topic of debate in the Assembly was taken to be a foregone conclusion. Postponement of the Prepatory Commission could not fail to evoke a protest from unarmed (comparatively speaking) Germany, who takes the position that all the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles are under equal obligations to disarm...
...Washington, D. C., the Administration's view was presented by U.S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. He recalled that General Sandino was indeed the only Nicaraguan commander who refused to disarm his forces; but Mr. Kellogg drew from this refusal the conclusion not that General Sandino is a "patriot," but instead the decision that he is "an outlaw . . . whose acts have no political significance." The Secretary backed up this postulate by stating that General Sandino's men have recently sought to maintain themselves by foraging upon the. property of U. S. citizens and others in Nicaragua. Thus they would...
George F. Baker's six million dollars' worth of confidence in the service which the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration can do for society, should be enough to disarm any skeptic. If there be some, however, who still doubt the practicability of academic training as preparation for important place in the world of active business, they may be referred to still another pertinent argument. At the dedication of the school's great flew buildings on Saturday, Professor Edwin F. Gay, the institution's first dean, told the story of a prosperous business man, an admirer of West Point methods...
...ultimatum to Nicaraguans read-"The forces of the U. S. will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down . . . and to disarm, forcibly those who will...