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...coals are still burning from the last war." Toward the end of the interview. Adzhubei tried to score a debater's point against Kennedy by asking him to assume that he was a Soviet naval officer and a veteran of World War II who was watching West Germany rearm. Said Adzhubei: "What would your attitude be?" Said Kennedy: "If I were a Soviet veteran, I would see that West Germany now has only nine divisions, which is a fraction of the Soviet forces. It has no nuclear weapons of its own. It has a very small air force-almost...
...worst dreams we did not suspect that Israel-in the 20th year since the start of Hitler's slaughter of the Jewish people-would send a stream of weapons to rearm the German army," cried a Tel Aviv newspaper. Israel had contracted to sell 250,000 anti-tank grenade launchers worth $3,300,000 to West Germany's Bundeswehr. Even coalition parties in the government demanded cancellation of the contract, and Premier David Ben-Gurion faced a no-confidence vote in parliament. Threatening to resign if he did not get his way, Ben-Gurion defended the deal...
...those Egyptian fleshpots which symbolize the American way of life? We in the West have been struggling for many a year with the powers and demons that hover over the land of the 'economic miracle' [ meaning West Germany], this land which thoughtlessly joined NATO and proceeded to rearm . . . Pray for us as we pray...
...years ago NATO commanders rubbed their hands at the promising prospect opened by the Paris treaties allowing Germany to rearm. Bonn promised NATO the manpower for 1,326 planes in 20 wings by 1960. But last week, two years after the go-ahead on rearmament, 18 months after pilot training began, the new Luftwaffe was still on the ground. The "few" were now Germans. The German Air Force (or "jaff," as the Americans pronounce it) boasts only 50 trained jet pilots, half of them base-bound as instructors, the rest aloft in a lone F-84 fighter squadron. A spare...
Seek the reunification of Germany "as a neutral factor that can blunt the sharp edge of military bipolarity in Europe . . . I have always doubted the wisdom of the decision to rearm Western Germany...