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...than five years old, plus eight frigates, six new corvettes and 15 good minesweepers. It also has 1,500 miles of coastline. Last week, as part of its program of building up bases in Spain, the U.S. agreed to give Franco $25 million to modernize his fleet with new armament, fire-control and submarine-detection equipment...
...communist meeting. Warned of the coming battle between the two groups, the entire student body of 3,000 poured into the Yard. Three hundred men strong, the Mullins Society marched into the ranks of the opposing peace strikers, Mullins, banners urging bigger and better imperialist wars, jingoism, and increased armament. The Society's three leaders were dressed as Hitler, Karl Marx, and a boy scout. Quickly the leaders of the strike tried to beat the drum for peace, but it was too late. The strike had been turned into a farce, and the YCL leaders ran in a shower...
...Church of England; the slashes and clashes in that arena are usually so politely modulated as to be inaudible to the untrained ear. But last week's Assembly in Westminster's Church House was different. The Social and Industrial Council's report strongly criticizing Moral Re-Armament (TIME, Feb. 14) was coming up, and for days M.R.A. literature and letters had made a rip tide across the desks and breakfast tables of churchmen and editors...
Last week came the biggest brickbat in a long time-a report of the Social and Industrial Council of the Church of England on Buchman's Moral Re-Armament...
Although the Soviet Union will probably increase its armament production as part of Khrushchev's heavy industry program, Shulman said this may paradoxically be due to the recent rearmament of Western Germany: "The paradox of out situation is that the fruition of our plans and policies in building our strength and cohesion may at the same time increase our immediate danger...