Word: rearm
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...midsummer 1950, five years and eight billion EGA dollars after V-J day, Western Europe was nicely back on its feet. Its industrial production was higher than in 1938. Then came Korea. Prodded by the U.S., Europe grudgingly agreed to rearm. U.S. arms production got going first, though slowly (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and in the worldwide inflation that followed, Europe's convalescing economy suffered a setback. Last week, in two countries, it was in perilous condition...
...with his design, the new dove line had been hatched within the walls of the Kremlin. In 1947, the Kremlin concluded that everything possible had been squeezed out of Franklin Roosevelt's era of the grand design. The West had turned firm and patient. It had begun to rearm. The Kremlin's answer was the peace offensive and the dove...
...Japan becomes a fully sovereign nation with power to rearm or develop its economy as it pleases...
...History moves too rapidly. Seven years ago, who would have believed that today we would be trying to rearm Germany and Japan? In 1947, nobody would have thought we would be on good terms with Tito today. His men were shooting down our planes; he was as bad as Stalin...
What is needed is a whopping gesture, something on the order of the proposed Japanese treaty, saying in effect: "O.K., boys. The war is over and we are ready to be friends again, pledged to defend each other." German leaders are not going to rearm a "second-class people," and Germans are not going to fight as "second-class soldiers." The French give the impression that they still want to avoid both a German army and German equality. Britain, while rigorously rearming at home, has gone slow on Germany, apparently in deference to its anti-U.S. left-wing Socialist...