Word: armament
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...natty Lieut. General Ulrich Kessler of the German air force; 2) a mysterious civilian in a wrinkled raincoat and baggy suit, clutching a bulging cardboard suitcase; 3) two minor Luftwaffe officers and five German naval officers and technicians; 4) some interesting metal dispatch boxes apparently full of papers and armament blueprints. Missing were the bodies of two unnamed Japanese who committed harakiri when surrender was ordered. Explained the Navy: the Germans tossed their dead allies overboard...
From Prague General Bohumil Bocek, Czechoslovak Chief of Staff, broadcast last week that henceforth the organization, armament and training of the Czechoslovak military forces will be iden tical with the Russian Army's. Czechoslovak officers will be trained in Soviet military schools...
...these two propositions-the will to have a world organization and the will to have the mightiest armament-are not enough. Something is missing. That something is an American foreign policy-a clear articulation of foreign policy within the Government of the U.S. and between the Government of the U.S. and the people...
...Franz Oppenhof, of Aachen, was a director of the local armament works, Veltrup, which manufactured parts for German guns and V-2 rockets. He knew everyone, he was respected, and the Nazis had allowed him to prosper without joining the Party. So the U.S. Military Government installed him as Aachen's occupation Bürgermeister. Fifty-seven of the first 300 city functionaries chosen by him had been Nazi Party members. U.S. officers, weeding out 27 of them, had to agree with Herr Oppenhof that it was almost impossible to run the town efficiently without experienced Nazis...
Part of the menace, some Chileans feared, was nearer home. They muttered darkly about reactionary elements in their own country which might welcome Argentine help in overthrowing their democracy. The iron and coal in southern Chile were a tempting plum to Argentine militarists eager to promote their armament program. And around Valdivia was Chile's incompletely assimilated colony of Germans, not all of whom Chileans trust...