Word: rearmed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Undaunted, Gadfly Stokes offered himself as a Labor candidate for the House of Commons in his traditionally Conservative district, talked persuasively about how Britain could rearm not only on a "no profit and no loss" basis, but even without incurring any further interest-bearing public debt, for the Government, explained Candidate Stokes, could simply issue "interest-free money." Ipswich thought so well of all this that she sent her Gadfly to the House of Commons with a landslide majority in February...
...nation's urge to rearm, so suddenly felt last autumn, so boldly cultivated by Franklin Roosevelt with warnings about the Dictators, was last week driving his national defense program steadily through Congress-when something happened to the urge. All went well...
Nazi Germany had then scarcely begun to rearm. The last thing it wanted was a fight with the large, well-trained Polish Army. Führer Hitler chose peace, signed a ten-year, non-aggression pact with Poland. Oddly enough, the pact has been scrupulously observed and Führer Hitler has shown few signs of going back on his word. In fact, Marshal Pilsudski's belligerent tactics, far from being resented, were so greatly admired by the belligerent Führer that even today few Hitler speeches on general Nazi policy in Eastern Europe omit a friendly reference...
...perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...
...belated entrant and cheap plater in the world's newest race to rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern...