Word: rearmament
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...before anybody noticed he was there. Never the dramatic sort to pack pistols like Patton or a hand grenade like Ridgway, he was the workhorse officer who planned Allied landings in North Africa in 1942, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, organized Defense Department's NATO rearmament program (1948-50), commanded U.N. forces in the Far East (1955-57), was marked for the top job years ago. Yet his name was always widely met with a standard response...
...P.T.A.s throughout Japan, house wives go in for cooking classes, sewing circles, charity drives. Wives can also be militant, and have often backed their husbands in strikes by bullying shopkeepers into advancing credit, badgering government officials and forming picket lines. The women of Japan are fiercely antiwar, anti-rearmament, anti-H-bomb...
...financial success he thinks the world should also listen to his political opinions. Perhaps the world is a little skeptical of them, but there is every reason why Khrushchev should agree. According to Eaton, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is preaching "insane fanaticism," West German rearmament is "begging for trouble," recognition of Red China is "only common sense," and the U.S. position on Hungary is "stark hypocrisy." Says Eaton: "A truculent trinity of politicians, generals and journalists are relentlessly driving us to war . . . The only people in the U.S. who believe that Communism is a menace are the boys...
Views. An avid advocate of German unity, but not at any price. Once considered "as Red as a non-Red can get," Brandt has long since tempered his socialism, pays tribute to free enterprise's role in rebuilding West Berlin. Having praised both NATO and German rearmament, he is out of favor with the doctrinaire and neutralist leaders of his party, but since he has the youth and vigor they lack, his admirers think Brandt may yet become Chancellor of Germany...
...more than we need an intercontinental missile or a moral rearmament or a religious revival, we need to come alive again, to recover the virility of the imagination on which all earlier civilizations have been based," the Pulitzer-prize winning poet said...