Word: rearmed
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...August 1941, off the Atlantic coast, Winston Churchill urged Franklin Roosevelt to hand Japan an ultimatum against further aggression, but the President said he thought he could "baby" the Japs three months more to gain time to rearm...
...year ago, when the U.S. Government began its clumsy effort to rearm, one prominent New Dealer confessed: "I wish we hadn't knocked off all the robber barons. The country sure needs...
Last week's documentary spectacle at the Museum of Modern Art was well worth the attention of the U.S. Govern ment and Hollywood. An instructive example of how to use the cinema to help a nation rearm, it was also an important lesson in how to show a people what it has to fight...
...flying splinters. Naval top hats last week indicated that they leaned more to increasing the numbers of anti-aircraft guns on the ships. Whatever the method they eventually decided on, they had substantially conceded Charles Edison's point. It would be a long job, in any case. To rearm or rearmor ships now with the Fleet would take five to six years, the Navy Department announced. In that case, the seven months lost between May and December 1940 probably made no difference to the Navy's high command. But anxious civilians took the words out of Harold Stark...
...failure after Munich was less spectacular, but more costly. Not only was war hateful to him, but all military and naval matters were distasteful. When Hitler broke his word of honor as a gentleman and occupied the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Chamberlain determined that Britain must rearm. But he believed that rearmament would be used for negotiation, not for war. And so the rearmament of Britain was mostly on paper, and Hitler also knew that...