Word: rearmament
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...your "roll call of great French diplomats," two more personalities should be mentioned: Schuman and Pleven, who planned two brilliant strokes of French diplomacy on the question of postwar German rearmament...
...time lost the previous spring he took additional courses and received B's in all of them. But his major work of the year was his thesis: Appeasement at Munich--The inevitable Result of the Slowness of the Conversion of the British Democracy form a Disarmament to a Rearmament Policy...
...thesis is a long, complex analysis of the reasons for Britain's slow response to the rearmament of Germany. Its crux is the contention that men like Chamberiain and Baldwin do not carry the principal responsibility for Munich, but, rather, that Munich was caused by deeper forces inherent in democracy and capitalism. These forces Kennedy saw as apathy, concern with profits and security, pacifism, and fear of regimentation...
...narrator, an oddly dressed fellow named Mr. Nod (I always called him the sandman) wanders through the world spreading the Moral Rearmament message. He is encouraged when an American astronaut returns to report that he did see (or at least hear) God in space. Naturally enough, that's why he found it so startling...
...country. The Western zones were permitted to rearm only within the bounds of NATO, which was designed partly to restrain any possible West German hopes of regaining the Eastern zones and the Oder-Neisse territories by force. Without tying Bonn into NATO, the U.S. would never have permitted German rearmament. Similarly, the Common Market is designed partly to contain West Germany's prodigious economic growth. And the Franco-German Pact, which reverses several hundred years of history, is the strongest link between Bonn and the West, the surest guarantee against a revived German revanchism. Even advocates of British entry into...