Word: rearmament
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...whose main bonds are anticlericalism, wine and good eating. The Radicals include able Premier Edgar Faure, who fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...
...below and in the skies above. But now, like any bureaucrat in any Communist town hall, Marshal Zhukov read off the standard mimeographed tributes to workers in animal husbandry fulfilling their norms. His speech was short and sweet. Even when he came to foreign policy, he denounced West German rearmament almost more in sorrow than in anger. It "hampers," he said, "the lessening of international tension." As for Russia, he proclaimed, its policy is Lenin's: "The possibility of a peaceful coexistence and economic competition of states regardless of social and state systems...
While lagging on their own rearmament for 4½ years, the Japanese have recently been shelling out up to $155 million a year to help support the U.S. troops stationed on their islands. In his demagogic election campaign, Japan's Premier Ichiro Hatoyama boasted that he would knock $55 million off the bill and spend the money on social welfare. The U.S. told Hatoyama it would accept the cut, if the Japanese put all the savings into their own rearmament. Last week, after 30 days of tense bargaining...
Conspicuous in the swelling stream of refugees are three groups who have special reasons for clearing out. Farmers fear increasing collectivization. Young men are alarmed at reports that the People's Police would soon be doubled in size, to counter West German rearmament. Teachers have their backs up because they were asked to plug "youth dedications"-a Communist substitute for church confirmations. Said one grammar-school teacher who fled his native Greifswald: "After all, to do harm to the church is to harm the only body in East Germany that effectively opposes the Communists...
Nehru did not like the rearmament of Western Germany, and he did not like the new Turkey-Iraq defense pacts which "have caused new weakness . .. The Middle East is today split into hostile groups." He thought that Red China should have Formosa; he judged it "certain" that Red China will get Quemoy and Matsu. And he put it to the U.S.: "What are you planning for? The great war to happen?" The new SEATO pact signed at Manila fundamentally "upset any possibility of peace-as well as stability-in the Indo-Chinese area." Nehru accused "both blocs" of "interference...