Word: rearmament
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...Prosecution. Attlee plainly disliked it, but in his thin, waspish voice, he built up a case against the burly Welshman that could not be controverted. Bevan, said his leader, had publicly decried his party's support for the SEATO pact, West German rearmament, and disputed Attlee's endorsement of NATO's nuclear strategy...
...leaders of the Evangelical Church in Germany, representing 42,100,000 Protestants in the East and West zones, rejected the fiery Rev. Dr. Gustav Heinemann, 55, for a second term as president. Heinemann, who violently opposed Adenauer's alignment with the West and campaigned against German rearmament, was discarded in favor of the Rev. Dr. Constantin von Dietze, 63, Cambridge-educated former rector of Freiburg University. Elected without opposition for another six-year term as chairman of the church council: Bishop Otto Dibelius...
...jettisoning of the suave manner of the Malenkov period. Now the Russians are back at the familiar task of making simple propaganda for simple minds out of the whole disarmament question. It should now be clear for all to see that in Soviet eyes questions such as West German rearmament are secondary to the central aim of driving the Americans out of the whole Eurasian continent...
...constitution. A leftward swing in national sentiment chopped another 21 seats away from the Liberals and transferred them to the two Socialist groups. The Socialists differ on many issues (the left-wing group often runs close to the Communist line), but they emphatically agree in their opposition to Japanese rearmament. Counting miscellaneous left-wing Deputies (among them two Communists), the Socialists can block any amendment to the Mac-Arthur constitution. This, to the barely concealed satisfaction of most of the conservatives, means that the Diet will probably not erase the no-war clause from its constitution in response...
...same time, the Tory government added to domestic demand by announcing a whole series of long-term development projects: hundreds of millions of dollars for the coal mines, $3.4 billion for the railroads, $420 million for highways, $840 million for nuclear power stations-in addition to Britain's rearmament program of $4.3 billion a year. Eventually, the Tory projects will pay off in increased productivity. But coming on top of the nation's demand for more houses, more cars, more exports, more arms and more investments in the Commonwealth, they impose a heavy strain on an economy...