Word: armament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initial measures, once de-armament was accomplished, were refreshing abolitions and reforms. The democratic leaders and groups so long in either prison or retirement, began to reappear. But at the same time a pervasive fear of Russia was growing among American military and civilian officials. Many went so far as to adopt the idea, beloved of Japanese die-hard militarists, of Japan as an American Gibraltar against Rusia. At very least, the Soviets became suspect of designs on Japan; all communist, and indeed all leftist, activity in the country was seen as Russian-inspired, and Russian interest that paralleled...
...American occupation, whether the U.S. had worked out with the British a specific plan for revitalization of the Ruhr. How many tons of coal had the U.S. targeted for the next twelve months in the Ruhr? How many tons of steel? How many factories, repaired, restored and reconverted from armament to useful production? What were the U.S. and Britain planning to contribute to get the program going? What exports did the U.S. expect, and how would they be allocated...
...world. For the most part, Correspondent Stowe writes in lumbering, low-gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet...
...show that the trial's 'mad and melancholy" mass of evidence, which the U.S. prosecution had helped compile with masterly precision, was not, as the defense had claimed, merely a disconnected series of misfortunes. Said Jackson: "Each part of the plan fitted into every other. . . . The armament industries were fed by the concentration camps. The concentration camps were fed by the Gestapo. The Gestapo was fed by the spy system. . . . Planning a war . . . involves the manipulation of public opinion . . . industry and finance...
...last week the spirit of McRompers still marched on. At the United Nations Health Assembly meeting in New York delegates unanimously approved a psychological attack on the world's ills through "mental armament." Children, said Canada's Deputy Health Minister George Brock Chisholm, must be taught to live harmoniously together or mankind will follow the dinosaur into oblivion...