Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has maintained all along that the rearmament vote need not prevent-in fact might even encourage-Russian attempts to negotiate with the West. Strength, he argued, is what the Russians respect. Last week everything pointed to Adenauer's essential rightness. At 79, and still carrying a burden that might cripple a man half his age, the indomitable old Chancellor had made his mark on history. Almost singlehanded, in the face of ruthlessly hard and skillfully soft Soviet pressure, in the face of French letdowns and Socialist opposition at home, he delivered to the West the long...
Inside the Bundeshaus the members' gong sounded, summoning 151 Socialists and 333 members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian-Democrat coalition to the climactic debate on West German rearmament. For five years the debate had raged, setting German against German, until the arguments were worn to clichés and all that was left was passion. But though the Deputies' minds were made up, and the result a foregone conclusion, more than 50 eager politicians had put down their names to speak. The debate was, in effect, the last opportunity for each side to arrange the record...
Nonsense About Neutrality. There were two items on the agenda: 1) the Paris accords proper, restoring German sovereignty and inviting rearmament in NATO, and 2) the much-abused Saar agreement, signed by Adenauer and Mendès-France (TIME, Nov. 1). The Paris accords came first, and at once the Socialists weighed in with the made-in-Moscow argument that they have chosen to regard as their own: ratification of rearmament means the end of all hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference...
Asking to be confirmed in office, Faure talked to patches of empty seats and small applause. Abroad, Faure's policy was Mendès' policy-quick ratification of the Paris accords for German rearmament, but a new effort immediately thereafter for talks with Russia. Domestically, he avoided Mendès' "psychological shock," promised a conservative program of increasing production, cutting prices, and raising wages slightly. On what one newspaper called "a wave of lassitude," the Assembly approved by a resounding 369 to 210, with only the Communists and Socialists opposed...
...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...