Word: defenseless
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Western Europe has not the shadow of a ghost of a chance to defend itself without U.S. help. And the U.S. has no reason to consider as an asset a Europe which stays at or near its present defenseless state. These two facts, considered coolly, mean that the U.S. has only two practical courses: 1) demand a maximum effort toward rearmament by European nations, or 2) pull out of Europe militarily and economically rather than waste men and materials on a hopeless proposition...
...Western Europe, defenseless now, can be made defensible if the U.S. and its Allies immediately start an urgent program of mobilization and armament. A world crisis in 1953 could confront the Russians with the possibility of atomic attack by the U.S. and at the same time deny them their present opportunity to take Western Europe. If they had to fight hard for Western Europe, their pipeline to the front would need filling from factories-which could be destroyed by bombing. Under such circumstances the U.S. atomic superiority would have more chance that it now has of being strategically decisive...
...Nothing could be more realistic than the fact that the longer Europe stays defenseless (while the U.S.S.R. makes A-bombs), the more the danger of war increases-and the greater grows the threat that the West would lose...
...this, but the U.S. leaders were under no compulsion to let the French hamstring action on Germany as they had in the past. All that the U.S. had to say was that it would not and could not undertake to defend France so long as Germany was defenseless. This week, at long last, Acheson was prepared to be firm. Ernest Bevin was ready to back him. To both of them, the most important item before the Foreign Ministers was how, when and with what Germany would be strengthened to become the bastion of a free Europe...
Urgent Voices. The defeatism that arose from Europe's defenseless state was the Kremlin's greatest asset in Western Europe...