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...still strong today among statesmen and pundits who have not yet comprehended the meaning of airpower. At the Geneva summit conference in 1955, Britain's Sir Anthony Eden proposed the establishment of a zone stretching roughly 100 miles on each side of the Iron Curtain in which the armament of both sides would be subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. Eden's plan was premised on the reunification of Germany through free elections. The dividing line would be the eastern border of a reunified Germany, i.e., the present East German border with Poland. Russia, having no intention...
...promising evolving element of the total NATO power. Item: disarmament talks, when conducted with excess optimism (e.g., the 1957 discussions), can create the complacent type of climate in which Soviet geopoliticians and missilemen are likely to forge ahead. Basically, the soft line is based on the proposition that further armament and continued tension will speedily become intolerable-for the West-and that compromise must be achieved no matter what the cost. Furthermore, in the view of some soft-line advocates, Russia is ahead politically and militarily anyhow, so it is time to make a deal...
...during the French occupation. Furious, the French threw Gustav in jail for seven months. By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, the firm had built itself up again by producing a steady flow of peacetime goods. It had also violated the Versailles Treaty by secretly carrying on armaments research, producing small quantities of tanks, guns, even submarines. Gustav von Bohlen early became a backer of Adolph Hitler, soon began producing a flood of arms at Hitler's behest, joined the Nazi Party in 1939. During World War II Krupp once more became Germany's chief source...
Such a two-step agreement, Harold Stassen stressed, would help reverse the tide of nuclear armament while still leaving the U.S. with "substantial nuclear-weapons capacity...
...Soviet Union and the United States have been giving chief consideration at the London disarmament talks to proposals which would limit nuclear testing, establish quotas on conventional armament and begin "open-sky" aerial inspection. So far the United States has presented no official plan for establishing a central European buffer zone...