Word: disarms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
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...
...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...