Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educate fifty million people in time to prevent the deluge. Even college graduates, moreover, have been known not to understand the complications of the present economic situation. So a league of crusaders, fighting the obvious demagoguery which now abounds, appealing to American horse-sense, may be just the right weapon in the word-fight of the depression...
...there's this to be remembered; nations will have arms in this scrabbled epoch, L. of N. or no. The arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results...
Also, important point, publicity as a weapon of control is impossible to apply equably among nations and is, therefore, against the prime principles of international law. An arms-producing state with all the preparedness of its industries as well as its arsenals, will take far less blame from such publicity than the non-producing, concomitantly non-industrial state which must have even more arms than its arms-producing neighbor. Complete publicity of the international arms trade might quite easily be turned into a new imperialism of the producing over the non-producing states. At any rate, the limslight thrown upon...
...must follow us and use every weapon. We shall ask mainly a taxpayers' strike and withdrawal of money from State savings banks. We shall have to go very far-so far that we will have to face worse things than prison. We must take our guns and fire into the mass...
Rene Peroy came in 1929 to take over the coaching job with a brilliant record behind him. After winning a national championship in 1926, he fenced on the Olympic team two years later, winning the individual three-weapon title. Since the age of seven, he has fenced at least one hour every day, and while at Harvard has usually spent five or six. Equally proficient in the foils, epee, and sabre, he has expressed a slight preference for the sabre...