Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than we need an intercontinental missile or a moral rearmament or a religious revival, we need to come alive again, to recover the virility of the imagination on which all earlier civilizations have been based," the Pulitzer-prize winning poet said...
...France's political troubles. According to him, these institutions expressed all too faithfully the many divisions of French thought and interests. Hence the impotence of the Executive, which depended for survival on heterogenous, unstable coalitions, and which could do no more, on crucial issues such as Indochina, German rearmament or Algeria, than accumulate postponements until external events imposed their own solutions...
...Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's most populous state, 82-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats found the winds anything but contrary. The opposition Socialists, thinking that their surest bet was to campaign against "Atomic Death," in opposition to the Chancellor's policy of atomic rearmament inside NATO, were swept from office. The Christian Democrats won an absolute majority, the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia history...
...time when virtually every poll showed them well ahead of the Tories in popularity. They have not forgotten that a bitter division on defense policy sent the party to defeat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. Then it was Nye Bevan who led the divisive revolt against German rearmament. Day after last week's debate, the Labor Executive Committee, including "Shadow Foreign Minister" Nye Bevan, summoned leaders of the Victory-for-Socialism group to answer for their "activities...
...impatient" approach to reunification, Conant said, offers policymakers the two extreme solutions of neutralization at the cost of withdrawing U.S. troops from across the Rhine, or rearmament of Germany with the intention of an eventual invasion of East Germany...