Word: armaments
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...Decorations: Croix de guerre for gallantry in World War I; a commander of the Legion of Honor. Private Life: Married to Denise-Henriette Bloch. His only son Antoine, a parachutist, was killed in World War II; a daughter Lise is married to a silk dealer. Political Career: Headed French armament mission to London 1939. Returning to France after the 1940 collapse, he was denied all posts under Petain's anti-Semitic laws; escaped to North Africa in 1943, where he joined the Free French in Algiers. After the liberation of Paris, De Gaulle made him Public Works and Transportation...
...have long realized that there can be no simple formula for bringing a swift, victorious end to this war. But at the very least, that knowledge prepares us for whatever tough tasks lie ahead. Such spiritual preparedness in our embattled world is as necessary as physical armament. A free citizenry expecting its soldiers honorably to face the enemy must itself honestly face reality...
Three hundred strong, the Mullius society marched into the ranks of the peace strikers. Their banner urged bigger and better imperialist wars, Jingoism, and increased armament. The three leaders of the society were dressed as Hitler, Karl Marx, and a boyscout. Quickly the leaders strike tried to beat the drum for peace, but in vain. The Mullius men had turned the strike into a farce. Heckled incessantly, the YCL leaders were showered with eggs, onions, and pennies by the crowd...
...hanging on an election. And so, without effective prodding from the U.S., the European Army plan languished, unratified by the two most important nations in it, France and Germany. France aired its grievances against the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 3); NATO adjured its member nations to meet their 1952 armament targets, and feared they wouldn't. In Britain last week, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that he would visit the U.S. and seek an interview with the new President. Proposed agenda: 1) "the unhappy state of affairs" in the Atlantic alliance; 2) a "rather fundamental reconsideration of the attitude...
...budget allocated to defense, it is the Soviet Union which now fixes the level of our defense expenditures and thus our tax rates. The only way to emancipate ourselves from this foreign control ... is first to develop our strength, and then to find the means of ending the armament race...