Word: armaments
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...rival resolution endorsing Gaitskell's stand seemed doomed to defeat-until twinkling little Bill Carron, leader of the Amalgamated Engineers (907,000 members) suddenly made a bid to save his old friend. His engineers were committed to vote for unilateral nuclear dis armament. But Carron proclaimed, after consulting with his delegation, that he found no contradiction between the two resolutions and would therefore cast his union's big vote for both...
...staked out his place in Communist history as the exponent of the affluent revolution, of a Soviet society no longer built primarily on sacrifice. He promised peace, and with it, a better life. By the logic of his promises, he urgently needed to reduce the burden that cold-war armament imposed on Russian economic and human resources...
...Manhattan Lawyer Fredrick Eaton, chief U.S. delegate, put it. creation of new weapons has always outstripped efforts to disarm ever since the Chinese pirates on the Yangtze held the first dis armament conference in 9 B.C. Now, in the Atomic Age, the haggling has droned on through 14 years to no avail. In the very next room at the Palais, the three-nation nuclear-test-ban conference (U.S., Russia, Britain) had made little progress in more than 16 months of debate...
...Camp David, Khrushchev seemed to reflect those drives. He impressed Eisenhower as a leader extremely anxious to win the respect and approval of his own people, as one who might wish to divert armament spending to consumer production for internal political reasons, as one almost pathetically eager to be accepted into the society of legitimate statesmen. When showing off before such Soviet underlings as Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador to the U.S. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, Khrushchev was full of bluster; in his private meetings with Ike he spoke quietly and seemed ready to do business...
...worth it." He taunted those opponents who challenged his qualifications with the acid remark that government ministers, "rightly or wrongly, are not appointed by the opposition." Krishna Menon told Parliament that troop movements toward the border, "consistent with our resources," had taken place, and boasted that Indian armament production had nearly doubled since...