Word: rearm
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...lights were snapped on in the big, modernistic debating hall of West Germany's Bundestag. Wearily and warily the Bundestag debated the most important decision in its brief history-a vote on the treaties which will end the occupation, in exchange for a West German promise to rearm...
Confident that West Germany had thereby made its "political decision" to rearm and join the Western Allies, Chancellor Adenauer sat back confidently to await what he assumed would be an equally approving court decision...
...General and Municipal Workers, pitched in with the counterattack: "All over Europe, people are scared-who by? Not by Britain or her Allies, but by the Soviet Union." Mineworkers' Leader Ernest Jones chipped in with rough-hewn Socialist logic: "If British miners were called upon to rearm in the interest of American capitalism and the Tory party, there'd be a devil of commotion . . . But . . . where freedom [is] at stake . . . the British miner [will be] in the last ditch of the struggle...
...that quarter there has come no clear lead or inspiration . . . We have seen every step of our program fearsomely scrutinized [by the intellectuals] for imperialistic aims or the intent to impose our will-or our way-on our allies or the oppressed peoples . . . With reluctance, we were permitted to rearm and arm our allies. Programs for material aid were approved, but they were searched for political contraband; heaven forbid, that we should slip copies of the Declaration of Independence, and political directions for duplicating it, into our CARE packages. Support of "reactionary" politicians was deplored, but neither were...
...liberty uniforms are kept under lock. Each month an average of 90 to 100 Vopos get fed up, desert to the west. Probably no more than 30% of the whole force are ideologically certified Reds. In fact, the Russians, like the western allies, show some reluctance to rearm Germans. Their two prize Nazi trophies, captured Generals Friedrich von Paulus and Walther von Seydlitz, are still in Russia, apparently not trusted to run an army of Germans. Veteran Wehrmacht officers originally assigned to the Vopos are being shunted aside as unreliable. The Russians hope to rear a new generation of indoctrinated...