Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendès did not say on what terms he would get peace, or what formula he would achieve for German rearmament. He simply said he would solve these two problems or get out. To a weary and politically conscious people, the appeal of this gamble was unique and overwhelming...
...French Assembly does not ratify EDC this summer, Churchill and Eisenhower decided, they will call a conference to renegotiate the Germany Contractual Agreements, which are now tied to EDC in order to grant West Germany full sovereignty-and, presumably, independent rearmament...
...mind are "fitful," and that he borders on ineffectiveness, is poppycock . . . Laguerre's statement, "It was the Tories, not the Socialists, who advocated appeasement of Hitler," is a wonder. Does he mean the Socialists were for vigorous action at the time? Then, as now, the Socialists opposed rearmament and were, if anything, more of a peace party than the Tories ... He ascribes [British] foreign policy to Churchill's senility, Eden's obsessive desire for the prime ministership, and the appeasement elements of the Tory Party. The truth is that British foreign policy...
Bills providing for Japanese rearmament with U.S. aid (opposed by the left-wingers) had been passed. Yoshida wanted one more piece of legislation disposed of: a bill to abolish local police forces in favor of a national force organized by prefects. Opponents argued that this would bring back the prewar totalitarian character of Japan's police. Yoshida's Liberals replied that the country could not afford overlapping police forces, and that there was no danger that a national force would become oppressive, since it would be supervised by a civilian commission...
Some traders have attributed the market rise to the rearmament program, simply because the aircraft stocks have turned in the most sensational performance of all, rising 80% since September. But the fact is that overall. Standard & Poor's index of "war stocks" (e.g., shipbuilding) has risen 35% in that time, and peace stocks have almost kept...