Word: rearmaments
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...much as pausing in his stride, Realmleader Adolf Hitler accepted his smashing Saar plebiscite victory (TIME, Jan. 21), passed on last week to Nazidom's next objective: to force the Great Powers to recognize and assent to the Fatherland's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles...
...eventual re-establishment of order. . . . Chancellor Hitler affirms his wish for peace. We ask him by associating in the policy which we are pursuing in Eastern Europe to translate his words into acts! . . . We have no intention of inclining before the factual situation created for us by the rearmament of Germany...
...this Sir John Simon flushed beet-red, his secretary paled amid French amazement. This climaxed the public spat over Sir John's proposal to grant a measure of rearmament to Germany which M. Barthou bluntly rejected (TIME, June 11). To all appearances they parted bitter enemies, but just before Sir John left Geneva, M. Barthou, having discovered the nature of his blunder, called to make a handsome apology which Sir John handsomely accepted...
Against the Simon plan of partial rearmament for Germany and disarmament for the rest of the world, Louis Barthou held out vigorously for Benito Mussolini's plan to freeze armaments at the status...
...Barthou dodged the fact that the original Mussolini plan also allowed a measure of rearmament to Germany...