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Word: disarms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations would not attempt military occupation of Axis countries-nor, to avoid future hates, would they attempt such drastic solutions as the dismemberment of Germany. Instead, they would grant their enemies the right to resume trade and shipping, would restore prewar commercial treaties, would themselves begin to disarm in preparation for a return to real peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hoover's Proposals | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...State Department won the first engagement in its bloodless battle with Vichyfrance for control of Martinique. Admiral Georges Robert, goateed commissioner of French possessions in the West Indies, agreed last week to disarm all his warships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: One Down, Three to Go | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...writer with a very simple mind, almost tactile vision, and a somewhat self-conscious style that is widely considered good prose. A brilliant war correspondent in 1914-17, he grew to hate war so bitterly that he wrote Mars His Idiot, one of the anti-war books that helped disarm Britons psychologically between World Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Ignorant Armies Clash | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...anti-gun people are a sinistere and selfhish set. Well they know the history of Switzerland. Well they know that a disarmed people are like dehorned and immasculated cattle. There is no quicker or surer way to degrade free men than to disarm them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Yelled Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels: "Seldom has history seen such a stupid, unimaginative document as the two big guns of world plutocracy framed. . . . Whoever wants to disarm us will have to go to the little trouble of taking our weapons from us. . . . We understand clearly why these international profiteers of plutocracy hate the Führer and his system. He has established a social form in which order, cleanliness and clarity reign. . . . These war and inflation profiteers, these fat capitalists and devoted Jewish servants, these perjurers of their own election promises, deserve only that the German people contemptuously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Points on the Points | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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