Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...VII. Admitting that disarmament depends upon security, to what extent is regional disarmament possible in return for regional security? Or is any scheme of disarmament practical unless it is general...
...everyone knows, Edward VII squelched Lord Fisher's ambitious scheme to seize the navy of a "friendly" power during what Mr. Bakeless calls "the piping times of peace...
...Robert which became the prototype of the Boy Scouts of America, which the Beard and Seton organizations formed by amalgamation. Amid a storm of pacifist ridicule, Baden-Powell started the organization in England. He first won the approval of Lord Roberts and in 1909 paid a visit to Edward VII at Balmoral. His enthusiasm carried the old King away, and when the veteran left Balmoral he carried not only the royal approval but a Knighthood and the Star of a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order for himself. Three years later there were 400,000 Boy Scouts in England...
...Haakon VII. The monarch who may thus shortly reign over a large part of the two extremities of the globe is the second son of King Frederick VIII and brother of Christian X of Denmark. In 1896 King Edward VII of Britain prudently caused the marriage of his third daughter, Maud, to Haakon, then Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905 the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name...
When Edward VII looked about for a hardy son-in-law, he was reputedly not unpleased at reports that Prince Carl of Denmark could command any ship capable of being sailed, in language sufficiently lurid to cow the most rebellious forecastle hand. Since Carl has become Haakon, he has not so much mellowed as acquired reserve. Cheerful, kindly, stout of heart, he conceals these characteristics behind the bearing of a martinet...