Word: disarmement
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...Credit Hongrois; Which in turn is financed by the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne, of which Eugene Schnelder is a director. Thus it was that Schneider contrived once again to circumvent his government and rearm a nation that France had spend blood and treasure in the attempt to disarm...
...note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved the note to Britain, but Poland was wobbly. Foreign Minister Barthou hopped a train for Warsaw...
...Mussolini blamed the heavily-armed nations for their failure to disarm, but under Article Eight of the League of Nations Covenant in the Treaty of Versailles, nations can only be forced to disarm to that point where they are able to protect their national safety, and this point varies according to the wishes of each nation...
...France will not disarm as a bribe to prevent Germany rearming...
...Germany is not going to break the treaty of Versailles," said Baron Kurtvon Tippleskirch, Boston's German Consul General, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "But if the victorious Allied Powers continue, as heretofore, to disregard their own solemn pledge to disarm given in that Trenty, their attitude can, in my opinion, not be construed but to represent a flagrant violation and rupture of the very same Treaty. The whole responsibility thus lies exclusively on the shoulders of those victorious powers...