Word: rearm
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...dubious control of a hybrid international command. "I have always thought what I think now," he said. Like the Gaullists, Juin professed to favor German rearmament in some other form. But, like most other right-wing opponents of EDC, he left unexplained how a France which fears to rearm Germany with EDC restrictions would be persuaded to let Germany rearm without such restrictions...
...Paris instructed its high commissioner in Germany to veto the amendment to the West German constitution, passed by the Bundesrat, to enable the Germans to rearm within EDC. Later, the French agreed to approve the amendment on conditions that would require a delay of four or five months in German ratification of EDC. The Germans jutted their jaws. Editorialized Hamburg's influential Die Welt: "If the French had intended to produce Europamüdigkeit [a state of being fed up with Europe], they could not have acted otherwise." The West German Cabinet bluntly told Paris that its conditions would...
...Commons last week, Britain's Anthony Eden put it bluntly: "The House will see that the points of view could not have been more widely divergent. There was no possibility of a successful negotiation to bridge them." The only real question now "is not whether Germany will rearm, but how she will rearm−and we are quite convinced that EDC within NATO offers the surest method yet devised for the security of Germany, the security of Europe and even for the security of Soviet Russia...
...Germany still cannot be trusted to rearm by itself. "It is no secret," said a close associate, "that he considers Prussians savage and dangerous...
...purpose which "needs to be wider and last longer than an alliance based upon direct, obvious self-interest in a transitory local situation." Immediately after the war, the Americans were far more determined than we were to destroy Germany; they were ready far more quickly than we were to rearm Germany. After the war, the Americans took the initiative in claiming that Japan should never again be allowed to have an army, and, far quicker than ourselves, they are demanding that Japan should rearm. What has this to do with the long-term "moral purpose" upon which you declare your...