Word: rearmaments
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This was no startling suggestion; it had been endorsed, if not effected, by every Disarmament Conference since the Treaty of Versailles. And everyone knows that Europe's credit, especially France's, is already badly strained by Rearmament. But a certain freshness of point and purpose was lent to Premier Blum's remarks by echoes from the conference of the International Labor Office, meeting at Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever...
...parliamentary government to maintain itself in Italy. Next came the advent of the Nazi regime in Germany, and now we witness actual warfare with all its barbarism in Spain. Finally we have seen the hopes of peace through collective security appear to fade and now the threat of rearmament hangs over all of Europe. There have been problems and disturbances of our own, of course,--problems grave enough to produce a tension in the most serene of temperaments. But the tension in the last few years has certainly been heightened by the emotions generated in our collective psyche...
...Hungary was to return a similar visit paid by the Regent to Rome six months ago, but Kings seldom make state visits out of pure politeness. What caused this visit with its special train was the knowledge spreading through all the chancelleries of the Balkans that French and British rearmament was reaching a point where minor Balkan nations might soon turn to them against the encroachments of Fascism. In Venice five weeks ago Benito...
...capture of the city so vital a point in any of Spain's previous civil wars. On the hillsides northwest of the city are some of the richest coal and iron mines in Spain. If Italy and Germany could get access to these for their rearmament program, their entire investment in the Spanish war might be justified and the galling defeat at Brihuega might be forgotten. If the Basques could stem the drive against their capital it would be a victory over Fascism that should impress the whole world...
...featured separate oaths by the King for each Dominion. And King George had received them all at Buckingham Palace with equal deference (see cut). Colleague Baldwin was now anxious to capitalize that equality by letting them share his biggest headache: Britain's $7,500,000,000 bill for Rearmament...