Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German Rearmament...
...candidate is required to hear out and then answer needling questions from the floor. While he sat in enforced silence, a reedy-voiced neo-Fascist accused Mendès of changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from L'Humanité, blamed him for German rearmament ("He gave the spiked helmet back to the Germans"), and an M.R.P. spokesman cried that Mendès had stolen the credit from M.R.P.'s Georges Bidault for ending the Indo-China war. Mendès-France gave as good as he got. For a neo-Fascist heckler...
...once joked: "Personally, I've never had a great many hot baths myself. Anyway, what's underneath isn't seen by anybody.") In 1950 he became Minister for Economic Affairs, then Chancellor of the Exchequer when ailing Stafford Cripps resigned. Forced to find the money for rearmament in his first budget, he courageously slashed expenses of the welfare state, imposed charges for spectacles and false teeth under the health service-the decision which led to the rebellion of Aneurin Bevan and launched their enmity. Bevan calls Gaitskell "a desiccated calculating machine"; Gaitskell thinks Bevan an irresponsible demagogue...
...France and Britain, editorialists busily explained that no one had seriously expected much of the "spirit of Geneva" anyway. West Germany's tough old Konrad Adenauer, who dislikes uncertainty, heard the results almost with relief: reality was better than illusion. He briskly ordered the stalled rearmament program pushed through, so that West Germany could have four divisions by the end of 1956. On his behalf, a spokesman declared gratefully that in Geneva the West had "made the cause of reunification their own." But Socialists and members of the FDP, even some of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats, raised...
...Socialists came to windy settlements of many differences, from party dues to rearmament policy, in the end settled everything except the color of the party's flag. Both sides, the blue-flag right-wingers and red-flag left-wingers, wanted time to consider the logical compromise-purple. The left-wingers, non-Communist but not always discernibly so in foreign-policy issues, promised to quit calling Japan an "American colony," and to postpone their campaign for disbanding Japan's modest armed forces...