Word: rearmed
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...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...
...truth is that war is not the next step nor would the use of military and naval power probably be sanctioned by any of the European countries even to prevent Germany from beginning to rearm. What may result from the Hitler defiance is a real test of the idea of economic boycott which was after all the central theme of the League of Nations covenant...
...Geneva the Nazi delegate to the Disarmament Conference, Rudolf Nadolnv, locked horns with French and British delegates on the question of Germany's right to rearm, and whether or not to count the Stahlhelm and Nazi Storm Troopers among the effectives of the German army. Italy, long a German ally in disarmament squabbles, suddenly sided with her War-time allies by announcing that for her part she was willing to have her Blackshirts numbered with her regular army...