Word: rearmaments
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When the potent Trades Union Congress, which represents 5,000,000 British workers, convened at Blackpool, Lancashire last week, loud demands were raised by militants for a new policy pledging Labor to cooperate no longer with Conservative Chamberlain's Cabinet in the big-paying job of Rearmament...
...warning Germany to keep out of Czechoslovakia, demanding that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor is making weapons which "would be used to bolster up the Fascist...
Weighty Newspundit Walter Lippmann, in Paris to hail Democracy's new potency in Europe, resulting from recent Anglo-French rearmament and collaboration, cabled: "The period of Franco-British impotence under the menace of a knockout blow came to an end in April of this year. The end was marked by the creation of what is in all but name an alliance. This alliance was tested in the Czechoslovak crisis of May 21 and survived its first severe practical test...
...They remember how in 1914 much German smart money took its prof its and got out of the market just before the War. Nazi newsorgans attributed last week's break to: 1) turning of securities into cash by German firms desirous of raising further working capital amid the Rearmament scramble; 2) forced sales by Jews squeezed in Vienna and elsewhere in Germany by fresh "Aryanization" measures, one of which excludes Jewish brokers from stock exchanges in the Reich...
Against F. D. R. in general are: 1) Retired people (56.8%) who like only his personality, his rearmament and international policies; 2) Executives (65.3%) and Students (60.6%) who like only the same points plus wages and hours; 3) Professional people (53.6%) who like only these plus his economic objectives...