Word: disarmement
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What would constitute an act of aggression? The actual mobilization of armed forces or the setting up of a new army and navy by Germany in direct violation of her treaty pledge which required her to disarm...
...allies who signed the treaty also promised to disarm. America has been trying in a tactful way to compel obedience by both sides. The moral influence of the United States in working out a peaceful settlement of the disarmament problem is all the greater because of what Hitler has done. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have been sincerely sponsoring every move looking toward disarmament in the world. It is inconceivable that at the very time when Europe is in acute need of disinterested counsel and conciliation that the United States should scuttle the ship. Hence the latest message issued...
...Britain still refuse to guarantee French security. France still holds that she is menaced by Hitlerite Germany and dares not commence to disarm unless her security is guaranteed. In Geneva, almost unnoticed last week in London's preparations for the World Economic Conference (see p. 16), the World Disarmament Conference adjourned amid utter gloom to meet again July 3. Up at the last moment popped Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato to read a 2,000-word declaration from Tokyo...
...present it would be illusory to slow down the preparation of military material. Only tomorrow will we know whether the other peoples are ready to disarm. ... I affirm that we can have confidence in our army, and I affirm that our national defense is assured...
...President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson to the Capitol, neither with new glory. That left Delegate Davis as the lone survivor to carry on the U. S. job of trying to get Europe to disarm. In the months following the general conference's adjournment in July he became a sort of roving ambassador, dipping into many a diplomatic problem of primarily foreign concern...