Word: rearm
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...Passed the $1,156,000,000 bill to expand and rearm the naval forces. C. Sent to conference a bill authorizing addition of one judge to the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals; appointment of 15 new district judges; and addition of one associate justice to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, three to the District of Columbia District Court...
...work on an $8,000,000 order for 12,000 machine guns. Seven thousand of the guns, light-weight Brens adapted from Czechoslovakia models, will be distributed to the Canadian militia, 5,000 will be shipped to Britain to aid the mother country in her frantic scramble to rearm...
...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...