Word: rearmament
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...participate in a London meeting of the Western European Union called to discuss approaches to a settlement of the Middle East crisis. The WEU, an international organization consisting of Britain and the six Common Market countries, was established in 1955, and laid out the ground rules for West German rearmament, notably a ban on development of nuclear weapons by Bonn. Since then, it has met intermittently to talk over defense questions and other problems of shared interest...
...decades ago, when West German rearmament in the face of Communist expansion was being debated, the country's youth expressed its opposition in a protest movement called ohne mich (count me out). By the time Bonn finally established the Bundeswehr in 1956, the movement had virtually evaporated, but the federal constitution had incorporated the principle that no German could ever be "compelled against his conscience" to take up arms...
...change in tone was not the result of a change of editorial opinion. Japanese newsmen and editors share the students' aversion to the Viet Nam war and to Japanese rearmament.*But since World War II, Japan's press has been scrupulously attentive to public opinion-and that opinion now is dead-set against continuing violence in the streets. As Japan has revived and boomed in the postwar years, the press has conceived its role to be one of establishing a consensus, of strengthening the bonds of society. If the motivation of the Western press is the right...
...Japan's constitution, drawn up by General Douglas MacArthur, forbids rearmament for any purpose except "self-defense...
Defeats. His tireless public career as Labor candidate for Parliament, as assiduous sitter on committees, is the record of one defeat after another. Nobody would listen-even when, as adviser to the Labor Party on foreign affairs, he tried in 1938 to muster the party to support rearmament against Hitler. Nobody, Woolf complains, read his three-volume treatise on politics...