Word: rearmament
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...Munich pact was a wise if bitter expedient necessitated by the fact that Britain and the Commonwealth were "not ready for war." Growled the Times (which supported Munich): "The reply must be to ask why they were not." For though Chamberlain himself had realized the urgent need for rearmament four years before Munich, and later described Hitler as a "lunatic," he could close his eyes to all unpleasant evidence. He left the first meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1938 radiating confidence that "here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...
There is no organized opposition to European unity, and every proposal presented in treaty form has been ratified, excepting only the European Defense Community, Lerner pointed out. Even the opposition to German rearmament that caused the French to reject EDC virtually collapsed when the United States approved the existence of separate German contingents in NATO...
Worth the Gamble. As World War II started, France and Britain pressed Monnet back into his old World War I job of organizing their joint production and rearmament to meet the Nazi challenge. In London, during the big German offensive of June 1940, it was evident to Monnet that the French government would soon surrender, and in a desperate attempt to keep France in the war, he suggested one of the few impractical schemes of his career: the immediate unification of France and Great Britain. Monnet put it to De Gaulle, who agreed it was worth the gamble. Both...
...delay was a name-calling hassle between Switzerland's two traditional city rivals, Zurich and Basel, over the politics of Gollwitzer, a onetime pupil of Barth who was imprisoned for five years in a Russian P.O.W. camp. Gollwitzer, screamed Zurich papers, was a "proCommunist" who opposed West German rearmament, atomic weapons and Adenauer's policies in general. Basel's National-Zeitung jumped to Gollwitzer's defense: "This man is a radical Christian in the original sense of the word, who believes that Christ did not die on the Cross to serve as a mascot for political...
...that had thrice in 70 years invaded its neighbors, but to re-educate Germans to hate militarism. The Com munist invasion of Korea changed all that. The danger that limited war could start in Europe, too, led U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in September 1950, to propose the rearmament of West Germans under NATO command. (The Communists had already organized their East Germans in paramilitary "police" units...