Word: rearm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honor Uber Alles! Glorying in Adolf Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles to rearm, Nazi Hess cried some moments later, with head thrown back and eyes shining: "Nonobservance of a treaty is a breach of Honor, and Germany today puts its Honor above everything else...
...month of Mars, 1935, could be set down positively last week by historians as the moment when the Great Powers frankly abandoned all the hopes and pretenses of the post-War peace period and openly squared away to rearm. With only two exceptions, "national defense" is each government's official reason for rearming, but that does not alter the exciting spectacle of seven major nations simultaneously girding themselves to fight, on land as well...
...rules,* but they are not the ways of His Majesty's Government. Sir John had expected to go to Berlin next Sunday and offer Adolf Hitler some easement from the Treaty of Versailles as part of a bargain. In exchange for the easement Germany was to agree to rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn up the diplomatic pack of cards and reached for the jack...
...some of The Loader's most warlike statements, have been placed side by side with excerpts from Hitler's Peace Speech of October 14, 1933. Now since the latter was delivered in an effort to allay the fears of Europe that was aroused by Germany's announced intention to rearm, inconsistencies between the autobiography and the speech leap at the reader...
...United Aircraft & Transport Corp.'s business in Germany totaled $59,000. In 1933 it jumped to $272,000, and in the first eight months of 1934 to $1,445,000. Biggest German purchases: unmounted Pratt & Whitney engines. The Senate committee promptly concluded that United was helping Germany rearm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. But "it was not the understanding" of United officials that their German sales were for military purposes...