Word: rearm
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Against Russia's 100 divisions the Western Allies had a mere 15, including two U.S. divisions in Germany. Only one of the U.S. divisions-the 1st Infantry-was organized for combat. The program to rearm Europe with U.S. aid had dragged through a year of staff conferences, then dragged through Congress and was last week dragging through more staff conferences. Europeans had the impression that, so far, rearmament was just talk. This impression was 99% correct...
...Rearm the West Germans, not as an army controlled by their own Bonn government (an idea which made France jittery), but as a force under command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...Pearl Harbor. Adviser to Presidents and Congresses for more than a quarter of a century, he carried the outraged recollection that his counsel had too often been disregarded. In the past two years, Washington had brushed off his repeated advice that the U.S. get up off its hunkers and rearm itself. Many observers figured that Washington would go on brushing him off. Baruch, the ancient prophet, was out of date...
...would be a much more popular word when the big EGA appropriation came before the Senate. Scenting trouble, ECA quietly abandoned its old first principle, that the Marshall Plan should be used only for peaceful economic recovery of Europe. Henceforth, said Deputy ECAdministrator William Foster, Marshall Plan nations could rearm themselves with their counterpart funds-some $3 billion in their own currencies which they have contributed, and put under U.S. control, to match ECA dollars. With that matter cleared up, the Senate briskly voted ECA its $2.7 billion...
...first whiff of the ubiquitous U.S. columnists. As Montgomery sailed from Manhattan last week, ship newsmen asked him about Columnist Drew Pearson's story on Monty's conferences with U.S. Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and others. Pearson reported that Monty had urged Bradley to rearm Germany. Up went Monty's eyebrows. "What in the world is a columnist?" he asked in bewilderment. "How did he know that? ... I didn't know this chap was in the room...