Word: rearmament
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Japan's ruling Liberal-Democrats went into last week's elections seeking a two-thirds majority in Japan's Upper House, hoping to be able to revise Japan's "MacArthur Constitution" to make possible faster and more open rearmament. They came out of the election lucky to have held their own 122 seats (out of a total 250), had to watch their smaller ally, the Green Breeze Society, take a beating. The gainers were the recently united Socialist Party, which picked up twelve seats...
...week, nearly 500 weary members of West Germany's Bundestag straggled red-eyed out of Bonn's slick, brass-trimmed Parliament house into the bright dawn. Behind them lay 16 hours of acrimonious debate which had ended in a half-step forward for West Germany's rearmament program: the passage, by a vote of 270-166, of military conscription...
...Socialist Deputies walked out of the Bundestag in protest against the speed with which Chancellor Adenauer's government coalition was pushing the bill through. Returning to the attack at the bill's final reading, fiery Socialist Deputy Fritz Erler harped on the nightmare fear that West German rearmament would end all hope of reunification of Germany, and protested that the Germans were being asked to arm at a time when others are reducing their arms. "The twelve West German divisions will be the last tin soldiers of the cold war," he cried...
Distinct Wilt. But more basically, Dick Richards, long a bipartisan-minded supporter of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, feels a distinct wilt of enthusiasm because the Administration has never made ringingly clear where it is headed in foreign aid after this year. Said Richards: "Germany is lagging on rearmament. France is using NATO divisions and NATO equipment in North Africa. Great Britain is cutting down her own defense establishment and talking about abolishing the draft. Italy is talking with emphasis on economic and not military aid from now on. If that's going to be the attitude...
...airpower-minded U.S., also see the announcement as proof of their basic assumption since Geneva: that the Soviet no longer fears attack from the West and plans none of its own. Already, German Social Democrats and Free Democrats are demanding "a serious review" of West Germany's projected rearmament. In Britain a group of 55 Laborites led by Nye Bevan declared that the reduction "made it clear that the challenge of Communism is economic, social and political-not military," and demanded the end of conscription and reduced defense spending...