"Disarmament" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Balfour called attention to the urgency of the question of disarmament, and said that he would shortly propose that a Committee should be appointed ...
— The Bullitt Mission to Russia • William C. Bullitt
... within the course of the next few months," Mervin Brown declared, "to lay before the League of Nations a scheme for total disarmament." ...
— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... fathers, landowners who had degenerated a little and preferred mountain life in a manor to the chances of a more hazardous existence. These pacific gentlemen were, for the most part, painted with the left hand gloved and resting upon the hip; the right one was bare, a sort of token of disarmament which one might take for a painter's epigram. Some of them had allowed their favorite dogs to share the honors of the picture. All in this group indicated that this branch of the family had many points of resemblance with the more illustrious faces. It was the ...
— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard
... Peace? Disarmament? China? Free love? Mere conversational bubbles to be tossed in the air and disposed of in a burst of foam. Strong meat for old man Minick who had so long been fed on pap. But he soon got used to it. Between ...
— Gigolo • Edna Ferber
... must end. It concerns Europe and the world that it should end sooner rather than later, and that it should end with a pacific restoration of France to her proper place in the family of European States. Surely the most imperious necessity of the immediate future in Europe is a general disarmament. No French Republic can possibly propose or accept such a disarmament. No French Empire even could easily propose or accept such a disarmament. For the Republic and the Empire are jointly though not equally responsible for the humiliations and the disasters of the great Franco-German War. The ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
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