Word: rearmaments
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...they were supported by many opposing elements in Germany, and Mrs. Lewis believes that this was the cause of the ambiguous aims of the government. For some, national socialism stood as the anti-semitic cause, for some it meant pomp and splendour, for some the cause of nationalism and rearmament...
...they need not state it in detail, and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin saw no reason to divulge anything to the Empire last week. It was already known that the main business of His Majesty's Government, following their victory in the general election, is to push British Rearmament, and this the King's Speech announced as "urgently necessary...
...down to business as Labor Leader Clement Attlee attacked "the inadequacy of the King's speech," charged that His Majesty's Government by proceeding with Rearmament are enhancing the world's risks...
...Current British expenditure for Rearmament is tentavely set at $1,000,000,000 while the unpaid U.S. Treasury bill including the Dec.15 installment totals $582,803,306.83. The U.S. State department, not demanding that Britain pay up for her last war before investing in another, last week dispatched to London one more gentle reminder, these being always anaswered by affirmations that, although Britain will not pay she considers her refusal " not a repudation." Borrowing this idea a German criminal on trial in London last week refused toplead either guilty or not guilty, insisted upon pleading "I do not feel guilty...
Although a new World Naval Conference convenes Dec. 6 in London (see p. 9), Britons last week so thoroughly expected its failure due to Rearmament that they scarcely bothered to note that the First Lord of the Admiralty remains Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. His formula for the Conference is not limitation, much less reduction of naval armaments, but "pooled programs." By this Sir Bolton means not that the great naval powers will be asked to pool their Might for any high-minded purpose, but merely that they will be asked to pool with each other non-binding statements relating...