Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scared of that knife, are you?' he laughed and he slowly put his weapon back into his pocket...
Naturally such petitions as the one sent from Harvard are likely to be received as annoying indications of impatience and lack of confidence on the part of the American public by statesmen at London. Moreover, the worth of the petition as an effective weapon of public opinion in remedying unsatisfactory conditions is extremely doubtful. Secretary Stimson, however, in announcing that the petitions in question have no basis is allowing his irritation to transgress the saner view of the situation which he could well afford to take. Although no responsibility can be directly imputed to the American delegation, proceedings...
...argument that the submarine is a purely defensive weapon seems to us difficult to reconcile with the offensive use which has been made of it at great distances from its home ports. The contention that it is a less costly weapon which affords a maximum of strategic value for a minimum of outlay must be considered in the light of the knowledge that the submarine is three or four times as costly, ton for ton, as the largest type of surface craft and approximately twice as costly as the largest ships...
...essential objection to the submarine is that it is a weapon particularly susceptible to abuse; that it is susceptible of use against merchant ships in a way that violates alike the laws of war and the dictates of humanity...
...Dismissing the London Naval Conference as "something to talk about," he said he would buy all the navies of the world if it would end war, but: "You can't end war by taking away the weapon that is at hand. Men fought before there were battleships or before there were guns. The only way to end war is to teach the fellows who profit by it that they can profit some other way, and get the ideas of war out of their head...