Word: rearm
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...perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...
...belated entrant and cheap plater in the world's newest race to rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern...
...size on the map of trouble this Nazi threat has its place. So have portions of Africa about which there may soon be attempted trading. *Obviously if Nazis will not trade, if experience shows a valid quid pro quo is impossible in the long run, then the Democracies, now rearming and able to rearm relatively faster than Germany and Italy, will have to fight the Second World War later...
...Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania), satellites of France. There on behalf of Regent and Hungarian Premier Béla Imrédy, the Baron "agreed in principle" to a pact whereby: 1) Hungary would be relieved of her obligation under the Treaty of Trianon (1919) not to rearm; 2) Hungary and the Little Entente would refrain from employing force of any kind against one another; 3) the Little Entente would speedily arrange for better treatment of Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia...
UNTO CAESAR-F. A. Voigt-Putnam ($3). A long, weary argument by the Foreign Editor of the Manchester Guardian, urging Britain to rearm, for the end of the world is at hand...