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Shortly some 50,000 troops of "Christian" Feng Yu-hsiang surrounded Peking, which was still occupied by the 6,000 "model" troops, with luckless General Pao encamped outside the walls. The next presumptuous step of Feng's troops was to take General Pao into custody and disarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Who's Got Peking? | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Explaining this remark, Rennie Smith, a British Labor member of Parliament and also Directing Secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, said in an interview yesterday that Great Britain had already begun to disarm, and that it would not be directly concerned with America's way of handling the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval Disarmament a World-Wide Question, Says Rennie Smith, M. P.--Should Rely on Statesmen, Not on Experts | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

Germany has been likewise able to throw down the gage to the Allies in her flat refusal to abide by the military strictures placed upon her after the war unless the Allies themselves agree to disarm. And with Russia and Germany as the nations who want peace in the world even if they have to fight for it, there takes place a curious metamorphosis of identity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PEACEMAKERS | 11/30/1927 | See Source »

...stoutly answered Madame Schwimmer, "but I would warn the soldier. I would not kill a man, even if he tried to kill me." She added that she might fling herself upon the enemy and try to disarm him. "That's all," said Judge Carpenter. "Petition denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Petition Denied | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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