Word: disarm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Convention. 1) The convention positively affirms that the Allied military control of German disarmament will be withdrawn on Jan. 31, 1927, and replaced by the supervision of a League of Nations investigating commission, as envisaged in Article 213 of the Versailles Treaty. 2) The instances of German failure to disarm cited in the Foch report will be settled by negotiation among the Powers, and should this fail will be referred to the Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners...
...until River. Then you saw nice sign say so Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker 179. That was the places my shop. Thanks you entered insides purchase me this time." Cosmopolites had seen the same sort of thing done by fawning Frenchmen in foreign lands-the employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump...
...very word "disarmament" has no meaning for purposes of international negotiation until defined. Does it mean, as "French logic" demands, that in order to "disarm" a nation you must do something about "peaceful dye factories" capable of being converted to produce poison gas in a few hours? Does it mean, as "British common sense" insists, that "practically" it is not possible to "disarm" a nation further than by scrapping its submarines, airplanes, guns...
General Simon and Senor Olivan suggested that France and Spain now held the whip hand over the Riff, and that Abd-El-Krim, if he did not want to be wiped out, must disarm the Riffi, go into exile himself, exchange all prisoners, and, after renouncing his assumed title of Sultan, recognize "the true sultan of Morocco", whom the French and Spanish "guard" in vassalage to themselves...
...these harsh terms Wazir Azarkhan replied with a burst of smiles, arguments, threats, shrieks, and stormy tears. He said that not even Abd-El-Krim can disarm the Riffi, since each cleaves to his rifle as to his wife. He said that Abd-El-Krim might consent to go into exile "after two or three years, when things have quieted down, but not now." He said that the hearts of loyal Riffi are so constructed that they could not possibly turn from Krim to "the French sultan." He spoke uninterruptedly for hours, "sold the carpet" until it could...