Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, toward week's end, the French Assembly finally approved West German rearmament, Ike issued a formal statement that called the vote a matter of "great gratification." Relieved of the necessity for an agonizing reappraisal, Ike had a few days of relative relaxation before flying back to Washington this week for a conference with G.O.P. congressional elders on his legislative program for the 84th Congress...
...dying hours of 1954, the deed at last was done. By the narrow but still sufficient margin of 27 votes, the French National Assembly ratified West German rearmament within NATO...
...that the WEU bill had been amended since last week and that a new bill had to be drafted. The Foreign Affairs Committee rejected Mendes' draft. He drafted another version, carrying an amendment by Gaullist Leon Noel, onetime ambassador to Poland, to create a watchdog committee on German rearmament. That made it a new bill, the spoilers declared, and it must have a new vote of confidence, which requires 24 hours delay. Wearily, Mendes had to yield...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and former political advisor to General Lucius Clay in Germany, who had also commented against Acheson's plan, stated yesterday that he had not changed his position. Friedrich had objected to the proposed rearmament because it had embraced none of the safeguards against German militarism which have since been worked...
...Germany to help in the defense of the West would be in the framework of EDC," Friedrich said, "but since the French preferred a Western European Union, under NATO, it would be unrealistic to go against them. The French plan is far to be preferred to any uncontrolled rearmament...