Word: rearmaments
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...Chamberlain finally told the House straight out that Mussolini thought the retention of Eden as Foreign Secretary had meant that Britain "was trying to lull the Italians into inactivity while Britain completed her rearmament and was in a position to take revenge for Ethiopia. That idea is fantastic and never entered our heads, but it is the idea held in Rome...
...Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken it, we must necessarily win the rearmament race...
...United States it is my Constitutional duty to report to the Congress that our national defense is, in the light of the increasing armaments of other nations, inadequate for purposes of national security and requires increase for that reason." With these words-the meat of his long-awaited Rearmament message -Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week called upon the country for the greatest naval construction program since the days when he was Woodrow T. Wilson's Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The rest of his message was given over to the hows and whys of Rearmament...
This means a Navy as big as Britain's. Indeed, the President delayed writing his Rearmament message while he awaited the result of a secret powwow in London between U. S. and British navies. For under the terms of the three-way agreement concluded at the 1936 naval conference, the U. S., France and Britain are to exchange information on their building plans. Presumably, they also exchanged what little information they had about Japan's plans, which are supposed despite denials to include monster 46,000-ton capital ships writh 18-inch guns...
What For? The Commander in Chief of the U. S. Army and Navy prepared, if necessary, to dispatch aides to rostrum and microphone to sell Rearmament to the country. For the question immediately asked, by both Republicans and Democrats was: What...