Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line and a "monolithic unity" they had devoted two years to peddling. Socialists in Britain and West Germany were hard put to justify their thesis that Russia's mellow new leadership was ready to become friendly if only those rigid Americans would cease their demands for German rearmament...
Spoiled Campaign. The day after Malenkov fell, Britain's Nye Bevan made an uncharacteristically dispirited defense of his attempt to delay German rearmament and was defeated in a Laborite caucus by a decisive 23 votes. In Wrest Germany, where Konrad Adenauer had been forced to take to the hustings to argue for rearmament, the Chancellor now felt reassured. "The Russians should have waited just one more month," said Adenauer, "then they would not have spoiled the Socialist campaign so completely...
Conant was confident that any such French government would immediately push the Paris Pacts for German independence and rearmament through the Council of the Republic. This would eliminate the only major obstacle remaining for placing the agreements into action...
Like most of the professors contacted yesterday, Malia echoed the belief that the change will lead to a "tougher line" in Soviet foreign policy. "This switch in foreign policy might well arise from deep alarm at the prospect of German rearmament and American determination to keep Formose," he said...
Although the Soviet Union will probably increase its armament production as part of Khrushchev's heavy industry program, Shulman said this may paradoxically be due to the recent rearmament of Western Germany: "The paradox of out situation is that the fruition of our plans and policies in building our strength and cohesion may at the same time increase our immediate danger...