Word: disarmement
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Promptly the students were polled, voted 1,366 to 14 for the proposal. Other proposals approved: The U. S. and Canada should disarm completely "if all nations join." The U. S. and Canada should reduce armaments independently. Military training should be banned from colleges. The individual citizen should have the right to refuse to fight...
Turning to foreign affairs Premier Molotov said that the coming Disarmament Conference (see p. 7) "will be an Armament Conference, each nation striving to disarm its rivals and to obtain a free hand to arm itself...
...Borah - I expect France to determine for herself how far she can afford to disarm, and I shall not find fault with her judgment. My opinion is that there is not going to be any disarmament by Europe until things are changed considerably...
...some changes in the Versailles Treaty . . . the Polish Corridor, for instance. And there is Hungary. She is divided into five parts and so long as she is divided that way they will keep their division by force of arms. You cannot expect Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and Rumania to disarm while a part of the territory they have is in dispute...
...must admit that he is a very clever speaker. Yesterday, when he addressed members of the Cambridge School of Drama, he succeeded in thoroughly charming his listeners. With one sweep of his sharp eyes, he sized up his audience, judged it skeptical and slightly unsympathetic, so immediately proceeded to disarm all by frankly admitting what some have termed faults, that is, his propensities toward sentimentalism and moralizing...