Word: rearmaments
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...Mediate?" The Stresa Conference was called to enable Britain, France and Italy to take common action in the face of 1) German rearmament, and 2) the refusal of Germany and Poland to enter military pacts for punishment of armed aggression, particularly the Eastern Locarno Pact. In London this week Sir John and Prime Minister MacDonald, who decided to go to Stresa too, seemed to have no policy except a vague notion that Britain should try to ''mediate...
...muted echo of big Germany's. Timidly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg whose grip on congested Austrian politics is steadily growing limper, announced: "The Cabinet Council expressed the unanimous conception that the granting to Austria of full equality was a self-evident supposition." In a firmer tone he removed Austrian rearmament from the realm of supposition by adding: "The necessary procedure to increase the armed forces has been taken." In Vienna Dr Schuschnigg was soon said to have roughed out plans for increasing Austria's army from 21,000 effectives to some...
...present frontiers; 4) adherence by Germany to a British-French-Italian-Belgian pact to resist "unprovoked air aggression" by whatsoever nation committed. The concession: In return for the foregoing German peace acts the Great Powers offered to release Germany from her Versailles pledge of disarmament and to permit German rearmament on a basis of equality up to limits which the Fatherland would abide...
Thus the peace bluff of Adolf Hitler was officially called. His retort, based on canny intuition that the Great Powers would not fight, was to seize even more than they had offered to barter. Instead of limited German rearmament, Der Reichsführer proclaimed unlimited rearmament, decreed compulsory recruiting for an army of over half a million Germans and again professed peace (TIME, March...
...reduced our effectives 50%? ... At sea we have decreased our tonnage from 768,000 to 550,000. It is the same for our aviation. Ever since the Armistice we have been in reality obsessed with a desire to disarm. That we have not done so ... is due ... to the rearmament [of Germany...