Word: rearmament
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...Radford plan" to reduce U.S. military manpower, announced just when he was exhorting the Germans to rebuild their own army. But last week der Alte seemed once more the leader sure of what he must do. The Chancellor summoned the Cabinet, ordered his ministers to stop squabbling and get rearmament moving. He lectured a caucus of Christian Democratic Deputies, pointing out that the Suez crisis "illustrates the need for conventional arms and forces" even in the age of the hydrogen bomb. The U.S. had, he declared, "adopted a certain turning-away-from-Europe policy" which made the construction...
...feels betrayed. He visited the U.S. last June with what he regarded as a prized gift for his old friend John Foster Dulles: a promise that, despite all the public opposition and the criticism from the Socialists, the Bundestag would soon pass a conscription law. Since West German rearmament has long been a prime goal of U.S. foreign policy. Adenauer made his pledge with happy anticipation, but got in return, say his aides, only a polite smile. Driving away from Dulles' office, Adenauer uneasily told a subordinate: "I have a feeling something may be wrong...
Describing the unpopularity of rearmament with the German People, Gehloff said that they "cannot see how it will be making any contribution to their own security." He also noted that with 1000-odd generals left over from the Second World War, and with space for only 40 in the new army, there is some danger of a state within a state arising in the military...
...Socialists played on the divisions and infirmities in the regime of eccentric Premier Ichiro Hatoyama. They also made hay with increasing Japanese sentiment against rearmament. To have a bigger force than today's token army, argued Socialist Secretary Inejiro Asanuma, would require U.S. aid and "U.S. control of Japanese affairs," and would "attract the hostility of Japan's neighbors." The U.S. did not help at all by letting it be known that it was greatly increasing its military aid to Japan, possibly by as much as 13 times, or by releasing a report on its land-requisitioning...
Japan's swing to the left is apt to mean more trouble for the U.S. With more than a third of the House in their hands, the Socialists can block any rearmament move, make trouble for U.S. occupation forces. Already, in the flush of victory, they banged the drums of anti-U.S. feeling. Some Japanese papers have been playing up Okinawa horror tales of G.I.s raping little girls and beating up farmers who resist land requisition, and of the U.S. taking farmers' little plots to build golf courses and expensive lawns for American occupiers. Socialists even suggest...