Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions of men and 50,000 guns to put against a nation with 166,000 men and no guns? So long as these instruments of war exist there can be no real peace...
...many a U. S. investor this was vital news because in 1927 Dillon, Read & Co. painted out that the Deutsche Bank is closely connected with most of the leading German industrial and commercial enterprises. Not only did Dillon, Read sell $25,000,000 Deutsche Bank notes to U. S. investors, but some of the stock of this and of the Disconto has been bought with U. S. money...
...acting, a most vital factor in the success of a performance depending so little on its setting and embellishments, is thoroughly competent and convincing. Claude Allister in particular gives a marvelously deft rendering of the English nobleman who lost his senses through shell shock during the war. Charles McNaughton, as the supposedly dead Tommy, also does a very capable piece of work...
...British Labor Government, that both war stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines rather than men the most vital factor in the world movement to end war. Nonlimitation of war materials is equivalent to non-disarmament...
...Without assurances that on these three vital points our program will be respected we cannot appear at the naval conference...