Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having put France in the painful position of making a decision, was stuck with a France that would expect to go on making decisions-just as if it had a grown-up government. France, Washington realized last week, would no more assent to the sim ple rearmament of Germany than it would to the plan, originally French, of rearming Germany within...
...what of Britain, which had joined in last June's statement that if EDC failed Germany would be granted sovereignty and the right to rearm? Last week there were forecasts that Britain would cave in under French pressure and would not join the U.S. in pressing for German rearmament...
...tremendous cost to his own prestige at home. The U.S. and Winston Churchill were still anxious to have German arms by whatever speedy way could now be found. But it would be harder than before to persuade a powerful and rejected Germany to accept the restrictions on its rearmament that everybody still thinks are necessary...
Western European NATO of seven nations, which would nestle within NATO proper like a kernel in a nut, would permit German rearmament and still be acceptable to France. It would have the backing of the French nationalists, said Mendès, because it imposed no restrictions on French sovereignty, of the Socialists because it would bring in Britain as a counterweight to Germany, of some of the "Good Europeans" because it retained at least a whiff of European Union...
...limited. From its beginning, EDC had two aspects. The larger was a long step toward European unity. As such, it represented the positive side of U.S. policy, the hope for a more rational and orderly world. EDC's other aspect was more modest: a device for making German rearmament palatable to French politicians. This objective was part of the old containment strategy in the cold...