Word: rearmament
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...years ago NATO commanders rubbed their hands at the promising prospect opened by the Paris treaties allowing Germany to rearm. Bonn promised NATO the manpower for 1,326 planes in 20 wings by 1960. But last week, two years after the go-ahead on rearmament, 18 months after pilot training began, the new Luftwaffe was still on the ground. The "few" were now Germans. The German Air Force (or "jaff," as the Americans pronounce it) boasts only 50 trained jet pilots, half of them base-bound as instructors, the rest aloft in a lone F-84 fighter squadron. A spare...
...support his proposals, Flanders charged that the American public was "fascinated with numbers," whereas "a dozen well-placed bombs would suffice" to cripple Russia. He called ICBM's "unnecessary," because of the effectiveness of intermediate missiles launched from West Europe. Opposing German rearmament, he said it "stopped dead" any possibility of German unity...
...dangerous policies. Instead of being rushed too quickly into bomb research projects, the eighteen may now be given opportunity to continue work on hydrogen fusion at laboratory-induced temperatures--a promising German discovery in the peacetime nuclear field. Their protest has again shown the sensitive nature of Germans towards rearmament; rearmament whose nuclear aspects should be under strict NATO control...
...Japanese magazines and newspapers Tsuru has criticized American H-bomb testing in the Pacific, restrictions on Japanese trade with Red China, and "America's over-eagerness to expedite Japan's rearmament." He noted that his criticism had been directed toward specific policies, and expressed admiration for the American people and culture...
Outlook: In squabbles in what is one of the world's oldest working-class movements. Socialist Ollenhauer usually comes down on the conservative side. After losing the last election fighting rearmament and Western alliances, Ollenhauer has become convinced that in its prosperous, complacent mood, West Germany is not interested in dogmatic Marxism. Karl Marx's face has been turned to the wall. "Free competition is a decisive means of Social Democratic economic policy," Ollenhauer proclaims. He soft-pedals the old class war, plays up Socialist efficiency in running state and local governments. He offers as his 1957 slogan...