Word: rearmaments
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...great scraping of chairs and clearing of throats delegates to the League of Nations Disarmament Conference moved into their bleak hall in Geneva last week after seven months of recess. They and the world knew that they were mourners at a wake, that, with Germany absent and rampant on rearmament, the last chance of doing anything practical about engines of death went glimmering months ago. But they and the world expected a few fine fireworks before the corpse was laid finally to rest. That they...
...Acting individually Great Britain and Italy offer separate plans to break the deadlock, which would allow a certain amount of rearmament by Germany. The Italian plan would limit the new German army to 300,000 men. The British plan offers a compromise of 250,000 men but goes further than the Italian in calling for the abolition of offensive weapons. Both plans are quietly rejected by France and Germany...
...Rome to explain in private conversations the advantages of the British Plan for the peace of Europe. Berlin and Rome are cordial, but the newly installed Doumergue cabinet in Paris refuses to budge. Before France will agree to any disarmament she insists that international control over Germany's rearmament be installed, that Nazi Storm Troops and other semimilitary bodies be dissolved...
April 14. Spain, Holland, Denmark, Norway. Switzerland and Sweden send a joint message advocating limited reduction of armaments for heavily armed powers, moderate rearmament for the rest...
...relations with Jugoslavia are normal; that is to say, diplomatically correct, but nothing more. Relations with France have improved generally. "To pretend to eternally keep a nation like Germany disarmed is pure illusion, unless one has the objective of preventing by force of arms Germany's eventual rearmament. This game has a supreme stake-the lives of millions of men and the destiny of Europe...