Word: rearmaments
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...vessels, including besides the North Carolina and Washington three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines, the keel for one of which, the Swordfish, was laid last week at the Navy's yard in Mare Island, Calif. Only nation to admit to bigger naval rearmament is Great Britain, whose 285 vessels are being increased by 96, including five battleships...
...speech impediment, read off without a single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges to unjam the divorce courts; publicize the health services; expand housing; regulate the working conditions of truck drivers and raise the efficiency of the United Kingdom...
Henchmen of Minister President General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, autocrat of the German Four-Year Plan of Rearmament and Autarchy, have long since occupied the Ministry of Economics (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.), yet Berlin correspondents have been unable to get confirmation that Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has actually resigned as Minister of Economics. Last week Dr. Schacht went to a cocktail party staged in farewell to U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins who is being transferred from Berlin to London...
...source to confirm that Dr. Schacht is no longer Minister of Economics. Apparently mystic Adolf Hitler wants to keep for Germany the talismanic kudos of the Schacht name in the world of international finance, while at the same time permitting General Göring to indulge in expenditures for rearmament on a scale Dr. Schacht has warned is beyond the practical limits of Germany's resources. From 1 p. m. until 6 p. m. one day last week General Göring conferred with the Führer, reputedly about accepting Dr. Schacht's resignation, without result...
...mask for everyone in the United Kingdom are to be taken under direction of Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. This potent statesman who in recent years gave India her new Constitution then made "The Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both nose and mouth, is fairly comfortable. His Majesty, pinching his own nose together jocularly with his fingers, spoke of how the World War type of mask...