Word: rearmaments
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Former Premier Leon Blum, the party's leader, presented resolutions endorsing French rearmament against the Fascist "menace." He wanted the U. S., Great Britain, France, Poland and Soviet Russia to form a democratic front against the dictatorships so that they would have to concede no more to threats of war. M. Blum also wanted France to revive the now moribund French-Soviet alliance...
...munitions, and more new battleships--not to mention the important and dramatic details--he will be asking for the means of implementing his revitalized foreign policy of resistance to dictatorships. "Implementation" is often merely a convenient euphemism referring to war. And yet, though the fundamental purpose of the new rearmament may be diplomatic and not defensive, it does not follow, as some pacifists and isolationists would have us believe, that the President is leading the country straight...
...problem is not as simple as that; only extremists and superficial thinkers categorically associates permament or international cooperation with war. On the other hand, thousands of airplanes and scores of battleships do not guarantee peace; they merely stimulates mad, competitive rearmament in a vicious circle that benefits no one and creates an atmosphere in which the peaceful adjustment of fundamental problems becomes increasingly difficult...
...large extent it is, then Munich was a blessing in disguise. But there is still one more hurdle for the President and the people to face: the traditionally isolationist United States Senate. During the next few months the issue will be clearly and dramatically posed through the new rearmament demands and proposed revision of the neutrality laws. Even while the President was speaking, destructive opposition was forming; one can almost hear the Congressional hand-organs beginning to grind out "entanglement," "George Washington," and, doubtless, "un-American influences." But rationally viewed, the President's program for combating totalitarianism, stopping short...
...drift of bankruptcies and failures. Called to power as Chancellor of the Third Reich on January 30, 1933 by aged, senile President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Hitler began to turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense rearmament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps); 4) putting political enemies and Jewish, Communist and Socialist jobholders in concentration camps...