Word: armament
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...months over the two opposing disarmament schemes put forth by the West and by Russia. The Russians then, as now, offered a glittering but empty scheme for total abolition of all armies and weapons over a four-year period. The West also had a step-by-step program for armament cuts, but there was one big difference. The U.S. insisted on careful, on-the-spot verification to ensure that all countries 1) destroyed the arms they said they would destroy, and 2) did not replace them with other weapons manufactured secretly. Crying espionage, the Russians flatly rejected the idea...
...spokesmen of the "new nationalism" have many faces. Most, like Adenauer and Strauss, are firm advocates of a strong Atlantic alliance and argue that they are merely trying to strengthen it. Others are more concerned with German unity. They would reject nuclear armament and would make other concessions to Russia for the sake of reunification. Off on another tangent is brash Hans Kroll, West Germany's ambassador in Moscow, whose loud advocacy of rapprochement with Russia last fall earned him a personal dressing down from Adenauer himself. Last week Kroll was again ordered home by the angry Chancellor, following...
...difficult to find evidence of any desire on the part of the Soviets to plunge into conflict with the West." The Cold War is made to seem a creation of the West; so too is the iron curtain. Fleming even relates the Hungarian Revolt to the forced armament of Eastern Europe following the United States' armament of Germany after September...
Modern ambassadors administer vast arsenals of peaceful weapons: food, loans, technical assistance-and in crisis, their advice to the government back home can even fetch battleships and airplanes. But words and opportunities remain the basic armament of diplomacy. In an age when heads of state can conveniently meet face to face, when foreign ministers crisscross the globe like soldier ants, when lies as well as truth travel with the speed of thought, it is still the ambassadors in every world capital who must explain their governments' policies to friends and foes, restrain the hasty, encourage the weak...
...Laboratory in Group Development in summer sessions at Bethel, Me. Many of the participants were so emotionally stirred by the first "Bethel Baths" that they came out with an evangelistic glow. But the psychologists were successful enough in preventing Sensitivity Training from becoming a kind of commercial Moral Re-Armament that a dozen colleges now offer sessions under a variety of names such as T-Group Training, Laboratory Training, and Diagnostic Skill Training. Increasingly, too, training-minded corporations such as Western Electric, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and International Business Machines are running their own experimental groups...