Word: disarmement
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...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
Wehle, set out among the art galleries to select a half-dozen U. S. painters. They must be i) not too advanced for the Board of Trustees' cautious taste, 2) advanced enough to disarm newspaper accusations of over-caution, 3) sponsored by the right art dealers. Art dealers are not supposed to bid against a museum, but they have broken the rule in the past few years. Hence the Metropolitan is not friendly toward dealers, except two classes: the dignified old dealers like Macbeth and the very young, radical galleries not likely to want the same pictures...
...violence which at once subsided after Premier Tardieu got over his scare. In the Paris Avenir, for example, French Senator Billiet had accused Statesman Stimson of "trying to cash in on the situation" by using what is owed the U. S. as a bargaining weapon to induce Europe to disarm. "By these gentlemen" [from Washington], stormed Senator Billiet, "the problems of Security and Peace are treated like pigs in Chicago stockyards...
Decorously Le Temps, echoing the French Government's official view, observed, "It would be inadvisable to seek to disarm those powers, like France, for whom, because of their geographical position, land forces constitute the principal guarantee of security, while nations which are relatively safe from invasion and hold in the control of sea power their best guarantee, should continue to dispose liberally of the most formidable offensive armaments...
...that she is not forced to fulfill, and the chances of forcing payment of reparations are less today than ever. ¶ "Germany can and will pay her private debts provided the French do not use force against her. But Germany is determined to re-arm if France does not disarm. ¶ "The German people as a whole have disavowed and repudiated the Versailles Treaty. France considers it her only guarantee of life. French and German differences have grown worse and they give every evidence of growing still worse in the future. Whether the development comes to war within predictable time...