Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This Committee has concealed its motives in the past; perhaps it is concealing them still. Perhaps it is guilty of the direst accusations of the left. It may not be concerned with preserving a dynamic democracy in this country. Conscription, which it supported vigorously, is a weapon that can be used for an attack upon democracy. White himself recently said, in effect, that it was treason to oppose invasion of the European continent, for he asserted appeasement was treason, and defined appeasement as a stalemate peace leaving Germany in control of the continent. The Committee is now working for repeal...
...northeast of Baltimore, between the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, is not so peaceful as it looks. Edgewood Arsenal is there. There also is the Army's Chemical Warfare School. Last week 24 National Guard officers reported there to study and practice defenses against war's most forbidding weapon. They joined 24 others in the first National Guard gas class since the Guard was mobilized for a year's field training...
...Edgewood's big classrooms, in the fields of the reservation, they will study for seven weeks the weapon that Germany first effectively introduced to modern warfare on April 22, 1915, when she turned chlorine loose on unprepared British troops at Ypres. In World War II Germany has so far used no gas, possibly because of its effect on U. S. public opinion, but her gas factories are reported working full and overtime. There is no documented proof that gas has been used in world warfare since Italian troops spewed it against barefooted Ethiopian warriors in 1936 (reported fatalities about...
This report was no fantasy from the mind of an idle reporter. In World War I Italy used the MAS (motor torpedo boat), the Grillo (a strange naval tank with spike-studded treads for climbing over harbor booms), and the piloted torpedo -prototype of last week's "secret" weapon...
...streets five deep to watch the candidate ride by. Nearly 40,000 had squeezed into Cleveland's vast Auditorium. They had cheered their hearts out, cheered even after he started to speak. Then they had sat spellbound while Roosevelt, fatigue written on his face, struck with every weapon at his foes. There for the first time he gave tacit recognition to the Third Term issue, asked for a chance "to stick it out" for "four more years." He promised: "When that term is over there will be another President of the U. S." He had told them...