Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inevitably, after the war, Hungary caught the itch to rearm. The Treaty of Trianon, by which she made peace with the Airlines and Associated Powers, for bade it. Schneider-Creusot, however, was above treaties. Hungary got the money with which to place a large order with Skoda, the Schneider-Creusot subsidiary in Czechoslovakia--got it through the Banquet General de Credit Hongrois; Which in turn is financed by the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne, of which Eugene Schnelder is a director. Thus it was that Schneider contrived once again to circumvent his government and rearm a nation that France...
...year many small nations would submit no complete documentation of their military expenses. A full meeting of the entire Disarmament Conference is called for the end of May, but the beer-drinking technicians knew last week that disarmament was dead as Queen Anne, that another great international race to rearm was well under...
...majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved the note to Britain, but Poland was wobbly. Foreign Minister Barthou hopped a train for Warsaw to see what he could do to bring Poland back into line...
...authorize a three billion franc ($197,400,000) bond issue to pay for additional armaments. Navy: 595,000,000 francs ($39,151,000). Air: 980,000,000 francs ($64,484,000) which will be spent for "quality rather than quantity" in fighting planes. Explained the Foreign Office: "Germany is rearming." Germany. The League of Nations made public an official memorandum from Germany to France, dated Dec. 18, 1933 in which Germany disclosed her intention to "rearm in moderation." Italy. The Glornale d'ltalia hinted at construction of a 25,000-ton ship to match France...
...obtained without war. She gave notice of her intention to resign from the League as a bluff to gain some of these concessions, but it is not certain that the bluff has failed. The concessions she wants are equality of armaments, either by Allied disarmament or by permission to rearm; the Saar Basin, the Polish Corridor, her former colonies and the Anschluss with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar reverted...