Word: rearmament
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...signing agreements to rearm West Germany. Hadn't they promised Russia in 1942 and 1944 respectively to take joint action to prevent renewal of German aggression? They had also agreed then to abstain from any coalition directed against one of the parties to the treaties. Wasn't German rearmament clearly directed against the peace-loving Soviets...
...ambassador was fully aware of Russia's policy of dividing the West. Although that policy failed to halt German rearmament, he said, "Let us not for a moment doubt that [the U.S.S.R.] will continue her efforts through other means. Let us not be disturbed by it. Let none of us suffer an inferiority complex because of it. Errors of judgment, mistakes in strategy and tactics are not prerogatives only of the Western powers. If the latter remain resolute and united, they can look forward to the future with confidence . . . To put it bluntly, our very survival is at stake...
After three hours and 19 minutes of desultory debate, the U.S. Senate last week ratified the Paris agreements for German rearmament and entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The vote was 76 to 2 (Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone and North Dakota's Republican Senator William Langer...
...point during last summer's Geneva conference. Three months later, John Foster Dulles gave him credit for "a diplomatic miracle," when by skillful flexibility and timing Eden put back together the Atlantic alliance after the death of EDC, and achieved the goal of West German rearmament through the Paris accords...
Push Button. The Berlin squeezer was used at full pressure in 1948-49 (when it was broken by the airlift), and at half pressure in 1951, after the West proposed West German rearmament. Last week the Kremlin pushed the button again...