Word: disarm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary disarmament conference scheduled for Geneva, May 18, will accomplish only negligible results. It would be better for the U. S. to abstain now and offer to mediate between the European nations later, when their economic distress will make it necessary for them to disarm. They do not intend to disarm...
...seeking the armaments and the great military alliances upon which they consider that true security from German aggression must rest. Cried M. Maginot, a trusted lieutenant of Poincare: "We cannot vote for the Locarno Treaty, for it means the disarmament of France in front of Germany, who does not disarm, and because this treaty rests upon German goodwill, of which the least I can say is that I have never seen any proof of it. I only hope time will prove you are right, but I believe you are wrong...
Between the lines of Signor Scialoja's bland pronouncement, diplomats read the disheartening truth that the world is not yet ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME...
...Cecil Hurst (Britain), M. Fromageot (France), Dr. Gaus (Germany), M. Rolin (Belgium), and Signer Pilotti (Italy)-they were the five. They were trying to arrive at a security pact that would settle Europe's boundaries, promote her peace, and enable her to disarm on land as well as sea. They were doing the work, so that in a few weeks the premiers or the foreign ministers of their countries could issue statements and put signatures to a specific document...
...suffered in the long war. We must again find the luminary symbol of love and make it the lodestar of our destiny. We must always remember the sacrifices we all sustained, not forgetting for a single moment the brotherhood of blood which united all soldiers in the trenches. To disarm among men of the same blood means to arm against an external enemy. Go you and bear your brothers the memory of this visit as the best omen of peace and prosperity...