Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlist Italian and German support for two of his pet projects: 1) a European Arms Pool, to standardize and control arms production in all Western European Union nations, and 2) talks with the Russians in the spring. Italian and German backing, he thought, might help him get German rearmament through the French Senate later this month...
...there is plenty of serious business ahead for the Congress. The Senate has coming up before it treaties on German rearmament, Southeast Asian defense, and mutual defense with the Chinese Nationalists. Farm, power, military, labor, housing and foreign-aid policies will all come up for review-and each promises a fight. In the first hours of the Senate session, 166 measures were introduced, ranging from John Bricker's treaty amendment to a bill by Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater which would permit live scorpions to be sent through the mail for medical research...
...lost its "utility," he explained. Socialist Chief Guy Mollet tried to bring the Deputies to a sense of reality with the most forceful speech of the twelve-day debate-and the first with high praise for the U.S.'s role. "Why is the question of German rearmament posed?" asked Mollet. "It's because of the policy conducted by the Soviet Union which menaces the peace of the world, and denies liberty to millions of men." Only the presence of U.S. troops in Europe could prevent a war, and only ratification of the Paris accords could assure...
division in Europe in 1914 and 1938, neither Kaiser Wilhelm nor Hitler would have launched the catastrophes we have known." But the deputies had hit upon a new dodge. Since they had approved German membership in NATO "to satisfy our allies," why couldn't they safely reject German rearmament and admission to WEU? Snapped Mendes: "This is a package deal, and there is no possibility of escaping from it." To the M.R.P. Mendes insisted: "There is no alternative solution, and it is no longer possible to proceed with new meetings. Our allies are not willing." Old Edouard Herriot quavered...
Japan's new nationalist Premier Ichiro Hatoyama apparently hopes to win friends for the March elections by working both sides of the Cold War street -and the alleys as well. He talked rearmament to please right-wing Japanese inter ests and the U.S. He talked recognition of Red China to please the left. Hatoyama himself seemed to believe that the U.S. should welcome improved relations between Japan and Red China as a means of reducing his country's "anti-American feeling." Hatoyama was talking more and more last week like a man who found it profitable to belabor...