Word: rearmaments
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...hour and a half the President deliberated with Secretary of State Hull and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis over Germany's rearmament (see p. 20). Considered was the advisability of lodging a protest, a logical move since the U. S.-German peace treaty contained the same military clauses as the treaty of Versailles. One result of last week's European developments: Congress was expected to speed passage of military budgets...
...England made her rearmament move, after long reluctance, in last fortnight's determined White Paper...
...citizens could know for sure last week what their Government is going to do about Rearmament. With several minor alterations, the Senate passed the House's bill of appropriations for the War Department and the bill went to conference, whence it would soon emerge for final passage and the President's signature. Carrying some $400,000,000, all but $50,000,000 for the Army, it is the biggest U. S. armaments expenditure since 1921. And, barring the possibility of the passage of an amendment sponsored by Senator Borah prohibiting the use of work relief money for rearmament...
...leaders in Germany that they desire peace. We cannot, however, fail to recognize that not only their forces, but the spirit in which the population, especially the youth, of their, country are being organized lend color to and substantiate the general feeling which has already been incontestably generated. . . . [German] rearmament, if continued at the present rate, unabated and uncontrolled, will aggravate the existing anxieties of Germany's neighbors and may consequently produce a situation where peace will be in peril...
...Received from the Government a White Paper proposing a thumping increase in British armaments, viewing German rearmament with alarm. Next day it pretended astonishment when, two days before Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon was to have arrived in Berlin for an attempt to persuade Adolf Hitler to sign with him the famed Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME. Feb. 18), Der Reichsführer abruptly cancelled the parley "on account of a cold...