Word: rearmament
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Understandably enough, the Pakistanis feel that they might as well not have joined SEATO. since the unaligned Indians are getting arms from the U.S. without having had to join any alliances. Pakistan also argues that if Washington and London expected it to accept Indian rearmament and not to take advantage of India's plight to invade Kashmir, then Nehru should have been required in turn to promise to settle the Kashmir issue. Although the U.S. got an Indian promise that the new arms would not be used against Pakistan, Ayub's government refused to be reassured. Ayub warned...
...group recommended such "limited disarmament steps" as disengagement in central Europe, a halt to the rearmament of West Germany, and limiting the club to its present membership. if no progress is made at Geneva, group said, the U.S. should take steps "which may in time by the Russians and other nations...
FROM his study of this diplomatic record, Taylor concludes that Hitler never planned or expected a full-scale war. Even German rearmament only proves the Fuehrer's love of machinery and military pomp, and his (or Economic Minister Schacht's) perception that large State budgets end depressions. It does not point to an intention to use the new force aggressively...
...time of the Korean War, Russell supported Western rearmament. "If I had to choose between Russian Communism and American capitalism," he said, "I should without a moment's hesitation choose the latter...because it is combined with democracy, and with a measure of personal liberty." Nonetheless, he did not shy from outspoken criticism of many American policies and beliefs. The United State, he argued, forced the Chinese to accept Communism by leaving them no other alternative to the "corrupt" Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, he roundly attacked McCarthyism on countless occasions...
Nonetheless, argues Macleod, "it is not at Munich but at the locust years, 1934 and 1935, that the finger of criticism should be pointed." For despite Chamberlain's "most valiant" championship of rearmament in the mid-'30's, so little was done that by September 1938. Britain was almost completely defenseless against air attack, had only a token quantity of modern antiaircraft guns and one operational Spitfire squadron. "After Munich," says Iain Macleod, "the last strong hopes of peace were not allowed to hold back our accelerating preparations against...