Word: rearm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great race to rearm is a vicious circle of panic and increasing expense. It benefits no one, leads to war, and, most serious of all, creates an atmosphere in which the peaceful adjustment of fundamental problems is increasingly difficult. There is no need for the United States to add to this chaos. War is not inevitable. Our influence must continue to be a force for sanity and reason and not for panic, for law and order and not for aggression,-for peace...
...oddest deal of Britain's present effort to rearm herself as fast as possible, the Admiralty turned last week to a Sheffield steel firm, Thomas W. Ward Ltd., who recently bought the liner Majestic to break up for scrap. The Admiralty offered a handsome sum to buy the Majestic, seeking to turn her into a training ship. Ward & Co. were not unwilling to sell but pointed out that to fill other contracts they were in immediate need of metal. At this the Admiralty threw in two old British submarines suitable for scrap in part payment for the German-built...
...last week a succession of hard mishaps in Europe had made the most pressing business of His Majesty's Government to rearm Great Britain as speedily as possible. Since the British Navy is still the favorite arm of the King's subjects, and since present British Naval battle planes are notably behind the times, it was both conferring a great honor and making a smart move last week to bring "Flying Sam" Hoare back to full Cabinet rank as First Lord of the British Admiralty-i. e. Secretary for the Navy...
...Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, disarmed as was Germany by post-War treaties, the Conference agreed to "inform" all European nations of their "desires" (i. e. to rearm). As a moral lesson to Germany, the Powers intend to grant to the three disarmed nations, after "friendly negotiation," the kind of rearmament they rebuke Hitler for having "seized...
Adolf Hitler's treaty-wrecking example boomed down the Danube last week and emboldened Handsome Adolf's native land to rearm too. Little Austria's "defy" to the Powers that defeated Imperial Austria was however, a discreet and muted echo of big Germany's. Timidly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg whose grip on congested Austrian politics is steadily growing limper, announced: "The Cabinet Council expressed the unanimous conception that the granting to Austria of full equality was a self-evident supposition." In a firmer tone he removed Austrian rearmament from the realm of supposition by adding: "The necessary...