Word: disarmers
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...They disarm the army if necessary...
Soft heads are much commoner than hard ones, even today. They seem to have learned nothing from the war. They are now proclaiming that the way to prevent war is for us to disarm--not necessarily concurrently with the other nations, but alone, as an example for the other nations to follow. Since this chimerical statement by itself is not enough to soften the skulls of most Americans, its advocates resort to another more potent argument. They say that disarmament will reduce taxes, will put money into the pockets of us all; and under the melting influence of this argument...
...Wilson sounded the practical note in the fourth of his 14 points--'Nations must reduce armaments to the lowest point consistent with their national security.' Now if all the nations were to band together there would be no need to think of the phrase 'national security'. All would be disarmed alike, only instead of a mere reduction, that world could be extended to abolition. We have disarmed a little. It would have been possible for us to disarm wholly had we accepted the League...
...start new private arsenals, in time those individuals would see the folly of having guns at all. The agreement not to increase their armaments would force the members of that community to increase their wits and to come to terms by arbitration, compromise or private bargaining. "The way to disarm is to disarm". The way to kill the scorching beast is not to feed him. HARRY REIFF '25. October...
...expensive imported goods. Two of the pseudo merchants generally go around through the dormitories together, traveling in a Ford touring car. A heavily built, dark man usually carries the cloth, while one of a group of accomplices, giving a different name and card each time, sells the cloth. To disarm suspicion, they often mention the name of a well-known student as recommending them, and also speak of various Boston tailors. Though they have several times been apprehended, they have always escaped, through political drag and the size of the gang, without severe punishment. Several students have already reported being...