Word: armaments
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Russia does not spend more for armament because a greater proportion of the Russian income must go to keep the people alive. More than half the Russian labor force is agricultural (v. 11% in the U.S.). At the low Russian economic level, there is not nearly as much margin as the U.S. has for military production...
...Soviet prison camp at the age of 18, he was pro-Nazi and anti-Russian. Now 29 and studying for a Ph.D. at Bonn, Kurt is still anti-Russian, but the peacetime years have made him violently anti-Nazi. In fact, despite the imminence of German re-armament, he is violently opposed to militarism of any kind...
...genuine pacifistic nationalism (not neutralism) that is struggling with other ideological out looks in Germany today rarely comes to the surface in words or actions because it is too new, too strange, to fit into the rigid framework of ordered rationalizations that has long been "German mentality." Re-armament is necessary, given the threat in the East; the Nazis may never regain control. But the free world will suffer a great loss as soon as green tunics and jackboots come back to Deutschman-the embryonic power of pacifism will be smothered...
Conant urged the governors to give "understanding and support" to the West German Republic. The armament program "would not be without risk," he admitted, however...
...Armament awakens unpleasant memories," Conant continued. "We must approach Germany with a healthy portion of realism." Despite dangers, there is "a very real effort in Germany to break with the evil and dangerous in its military tradition," he said...