Word: rearmaments
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...third-term campaign of 1940 delayed the rearmament program by many months, impelled the President to give assurances against war involvement that the world situation refuted, and contributed disastrously to the unpreparedness psychology of the people. If the same political considerations, geared now to a fourth-term effort, are permitted to postpone or obscure candid postwar statements of national policy, the eventual cost may be even greater...
Once (in 1934) Investigator Nye investigated munitions makers so belligerently that he convinced many U.S. citizens that all wars are deliberately fomented to enrich the "merchants of death," and incidentally scared U.S. business so far out of munitions-making as to delay U.S. rearmament substantially. All Washington knew that Britain-Baiter Nye would, if he could, turn his Lend-Lease inquiry into an anti-British field...
...answer to charges that he was pro-Nazi. Some of his points: British Intelligence knew the strength and weakness of the German Air Force when it was being built. British Cabinet members openly, jocosely showed their lack of interest in the air force. Public opinion was hostile to rearmament of any kind. Sir Samuel Hoare, though he made some constructive suggestions, never got out on a limb that might lose the Government votes. Churchill was an ardent supporter of the R.A.F. but not always well informed on German air rearmament. When presented with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime...
...running time, a million feet of newsreel film was culled. Result is a hodgepodge of personalities and panjandrumry, from Woodrow Wilson and the Versailles Conference to Franklin Roosevelt and the U.S. declaration of war against the Axis. The film pulls out all the stops (Hitler, Germany's secret rearmament, Daladier, Chamberlain, Munich, the awesome wreckage of Pearl Harbor, etc.), without quite achieving a tune you can whistle...
Stressing the poverty of the nation and its paralyzing internal disuntiy, the professor asserted, however, that great strides had been made in Indian production and rearmament. "A nation whose average yearly income is $40 per capita has, by concerted national effort, raised an army of a million men, and has raised steel production to a million and a half tons. Further, Indian manufacturing of small arms, rifles, machine guns, and other smaller weapons and pieces of equipment has tripled in recent years," he claimed...