Word: rearm
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...will do so only once." So spoke Konrad Adenauer, himself a maker of history, as one day last week he challenged the German Bundestag to ratify the Paris accords. The grim-faced old German titan was opening the last and fateful round in the three-year-old battle to rearm West Germany within the Atlantic alliance. On both sides of the Rhine, and of the Iron Curtain, too, all men knew that this time history required that the fight be fought to a finish...
...speech that "the possibility of permanent peace is more promising than in any time in recent years." He was not succumbing to the notion that the Communists are reforming. The prospects for peace are stronger, he said, because the free world had strengthened itself through a plan to rearm Germany, a Pacific defense pact and the end of tension in such trouble spots as Iran and Trieste...
Sutherland expressed his admiration for Seavey's successful plan of faculty conferences with famous speakers whom he persuaded to talk on affairs of general interest. He also praised Seavey's farsighted production that the U.S. needed to rearm faster in the months before Pearl Harbor...
...partition of Trieste and, above all, the potentially history-changing Act of London. With this quick parade of successes, the Atlantic alliance seemed to recover the ground, and the spirit, that were lost with EDC. Europe, with the potent help of the U.S., had produced a new plan to rearm the West Germans, and in it lay the promise of a truly closed anti-Communist front...
Inside and outside the conference, Eden's offer created a sensation. It gave Frenchmen the assurance they most had desired, the prerequisite they most insisted on before letting the Germans, whom they do not trust, rearm. In the conference room, tears shone in Frenchmen's eyes. Paul-Henri Spaak put said his hand on Mendès shoulder and said quietly "You've won." Mendès replied: "Britain's guarantee will rejoice the heart of France...