Word: rearmaments
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...Army would march if Poland committed "unprovoked aggression" on Czechoslovakia was no longer taken seriously by the Warsaw General Staff. Polish officers squawked, "We have called the Communist bluff!" Hungary was and acted weak. Drastically disarmed after the World War as one of the defeated nations, her present rearmament is incomplete and the Czechoslovak Army probably today could whip the Hungarian Army if the two could meet alone in battle. Events showed clearly last week how Might can make two similar cases quite different...
...Majesty last week appeared before Parliament and delivered a speech from the throne regretting that rearmament is already costing The Netherlands so much that the frugal budget for 1939 is unbalanced by 145,000,000 florins ($78,300,000). Realist Queen Wilhelmina warned her subjects that Her Majesty's Government may be forced during the coming year to ask "greater sacrifices...
...wrote a letter to the London Times pleading with the world's youth who 'are bound together by a common love of physical fitness and in a spirit of sportsmanship engendered by their love of games ... to let their voice be heard in a call for moral rearmament . . . under the guidance of. God, who is the Father...
...London Times last fortnight, 33 M.P.s dispatched a statement approving the Oxford Group's "crusade for moral rearmament which appears to be spreading rapidly." Signers included not only Conservative committee members and two onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery...
...careful not to ignore the lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament of the Oxford Group I have found some common sense with real fire behind it-not the mean-minded revolution of the changed life in the individual, which never goes beyond personal convenience, but a broad evolution which changes a nation's moral climate. This new evolution is our last chance...