Word: disarm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remainder of his term is regarded as necessary for the proper and successful conduct of such elections, and that the forces of the United States will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down, including the Government's and to disarm forcibly those who will...
General Moncada then informed the Associated Press that, since the U. S. was threatening to disarm his troops by force, he would do all in his power to persuade his men to hand over their arms to U. S. marines without fighting...
...League of Nations. Last week, at Geneva, he did his best to mediate between U. S., French, Italian and Japanese representatives who were squabbling about disarmament as members of an important League committee. With a voice and manner gently reproving, Count von Bernstorff called upon the Great Powers to disarm here and now down to the minute Post-War armament of Germany. Up and down Unter Den Linden, Germans commented on the Count's speech with ponderous approval, seemed unstirred by the supreme irony of the situation in which he spoke...
Commission Rests. The finale came last week when Marshal Foch, President of the Commission, announced at Paris that Germany has fully complied with her obligations to disarm under the Treaty of Versailles...
Rear Admiral Latimer was not called upon to inspect the "rights" of the situation (see above). Sailorlike, he obeyed his orders from Washington. Curt, he commanded President Juan Sacasa to disarm his troops or withdraw them from the Puerto Cabezas area. Secondly, he ordered the local mahogany growers to pay taxes only to the Conservative Government of Adolfo Diaz. By these acts it appeared that the hopes entertained by Dr. Sacasa and the Mexican Government that he should continue President had been blasted...