Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...release a Canadian flyer also captured during the Korean war (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Communists figured that Washington would scream with indignation; Britain and France would interpret this as a further evidence of rash American bellicosity and back away, thus weakening the chances of a European agreement on German rearmament...
With quick, nimble feet France's Premier Mendes-France danced around the political quicksands of the Palais Bourbon last week and brought German rearmament so close to ratification that Russia responded with her most powerful propaganda attack on France in years...
...also declared himself in favor of ratification first and a meeting with Malenkov later. But powerful French right-wing Deputies, no longer able to delay the vote, sought to delay implementation of the treaties-to give Russia chance to show by her actions that German rearmament was unnecessary. Mendes moved with accustomed nimbleness. The French charge d'affaires in Moscow was instructed to talk with Molotov about the Austrian peace treaty. Then Mendes told the rightist Deputies: "If the Russians really have anything to say, they can say it to the charge...
...sound of Molotov's saber-rattling could reach French ears, the Assembly's powerful Foreign Affairs Committee took a vote. This was the formidable body that had doomed EDC, 24 to 18. Now, by a combination of ayes, nays and abstentions, it recommended ratification of German rearmament, by a majority of but one vote.*By this narrow margin, Mendes, man of close shaves, had got past another difficulty. Next week the Assembly itself will debate ratification...
Supporters of Moral Rearmament said last night they believe the University "could lead the way in the ideological awakening of the U.S.A...