Word: armaments
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...long as the enemy retains the choice of war or no-war, the U.S. is committed to a long-range armament program, which means a half-speed program...
...could not defend themselves without German help but unwilling to see Germany powerful again. Reluctantly at first, the U.S. had accepted Premier René Pleven's compromise: a European army to include twelve German army divisions, but barring a German general staff, limiting the divisions' size and armament, sprinkling them through the joint army to prevent them from homogenizing into a unified German army. To this international army France would contribute 14 divisions...
Hinshaw disagreed with the present Western armament program on the grounds that it is an abandonment of moral values and too heavy a load on the economic stability of the country. "Non-violent resistance, on the other hand," he said, "alligns us with the good in our natures...
...peace proposal was a quickly juggled anagram of all the old ones. The Russians continue to insist on a toothless international inspection program-i.e., Russia wants to do its own inspection of its armament-and on the abolition of atomic weapons before a large-scale reduction of conventional armaments. (The Russians, who control the world's biggest armies, want to impose an arbitrary one-third reduction on the troops of all the Big Five powers.) Sniffed Dean Acheson: "This takes us back...
Originally, the Government had talked of a grandiose plan to move armament plants into the interior. New plants would also be located in sparsely settled areas. But that plan has been dropped. Charlie Wilson told why. For one thing, said he, labor and materials shortages made it impossible to build all the new houses, churches, schools, utilities, etc., that would be needed. Furthermore, defense production itself would be hamstrung by shortages if such a mass movement was undertaken. And everybody objected-unions, management and communities which feared the loss of their industries...