Word: rearmaments
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...most war-minded country in the world might be the one which is spending most today on Rearmament, and last week statisticians of the Foreign Policy Association figured that the latest rearmament budgets of the Great Powers entitle the Bolsheviks to rank first...
World spending on Rearmament totaled 10,730 million dollars, and of this 8,879 million was spent by Britain and the Continent, thus making Europe as a whole Public Enemy No. 1 of Peace-except that each country insists its Rearmament is solely to preserve peace, thus making Europe in 1937 the Public Friend No. 1 of Peace...
...standard of living has declined and there is chronic shortage of individual food items under Goring's Rearmament program of "Cannon instead of Butter." There are "Strength Through Joy" vacation treats and trips for workers on a grand scale which would have seemed incredible four years ago. In Germany the Protestants, Catholics and every other religious group except the Nazi mystics have been ruthlessly trampled by the State and the Jews have been legally reduced to a sub-citizen depressed class...
...keep Britain's colossal rush-Rearmament program (TIME, March 30 et seq.) on schedule is Sir Thomas' awful responsibility and last week some M.P.'s hurled in his face that "Rearmament is two years behind!" A great churchman, Sir Thomas reprovingly reminded everyone that Britain is firm in her adherence to the principles of Christ. There were some gasps when Sir Thomas went so far as to say, "Rearmament is not the Government's objective!" but he got away with it. Finally he admitted to the House with suave authority that the British Rearmament program...
...Majesty King George VI, who released last week his first Honors List. Sir Harry, easily the biggest Briton on the list, was knighted in 1918 for putting through efficient mergers of munitions firms. He has long been rated "the highest salaried industrialist in Great Britain," a key figure in Rearmament today, and is Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries...