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That great, gentle mathematician War Minister Paul Painlevé asked a favor last week of his good friend Joseph Paul-Boncour, leader of the Right Wing Socialists, outstanding pacifist, fervent champion of the League of Nations before which he represented France in 1924-25. All that M. Painlevé asked of M. Paul-Boncour was that he would introduce and sponsor in the Chamber a bill proposing to spend 7,000,000 francs ($280,000) forthwith on armaments to protect the frontiers of France...
Enlightened, Pacifist Paul-Boncour inspected the bill, found it good and "purely defensive," introduced it with all the weight of his influence and the persuasion of his lawyer oratory before the Chamber...
Erudite and pacifist, Emile Vandervelde said: "I cannot deny that Germany would be able to place an effective fighting force of several million men in the field within a few months after declaring...
...other words, the picture is good and all who can forget pacifist prejudices long enough to remember that the film is really propaganda against war will derive an evening's entertainment...
...these resolutions showed though and study on the problems which they attempt to meet they would be worthy of serious consideration. But there is a singular fatuity in all of them. It is interesting that over 300 students should take the absolute pacifist position but one wonders how many of them, for instance, could outline the duties and sphere of action of the Permanent Court of International Justice, or if the 700 odd who would support some wars and not others, know the League of Nations Council definition of an aggressive war, and the details of the Locarno agreement...