Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commentators and columnists, Conservative or Socialist, everywhere condemned the manner, and frequently the matter, in Bevan's abrupt split with Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee (TIME, April 26) over approval of German rearmament and of U.S. leadership in world politics. Admitted the leftist New Statesman & Nation: "By this impulsive gesture, Mr. Bevan has postponed-possibly forever-his own chances of succeeding to the Socialist leadership." "It is the future existence of the party itself which is at stake," said the Times in alarm. If Bevan could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia...
...there was also evidence that Nye had struck a popular chord among the millions of Britons who fear Germany, resent the U.S. and think that the Communists would behave better if not antagonized. Nye's opposition to German rearmament was supported 2 to 1 by the convention of the Cooperative Party, which controls 18 Labor seats in Parliament, by delegates of Britain's sixth largest union, and by the Labor Party of Northern Ireland in convention...
...shadow cabinet and would "resume the freedom of the back benches," where he can criticize his own party leadership to his heart's content. He "profoundly disagreed" with Labor's decision to support EDC and the immediate rearmement of Germany (though privately he admits that German rearmament is inevitable). The Asia proposal, he charged, was "tantamount to the diplomatic and military encirclement" of what he persists in calling "republican China...
...where he was a classmate of Charles de Gaulle), was utterly opposed to handing over the army of Napoleon and Foch to the dubious control of a hybrid international command. "I have always thought what I think now," he said. Like the Gaullists, Juin professed to favor German rearmament in some other form. But, like most other right-wing opponents of EDC, he left unexplained how a France which fears to rearm Germany with EDC restrictions would be persuaded to let Germany rearm without such restrictions...
...German recovery caused Saarlanders to look wistfully across the Rhine. West Germans revived the old slogan, Deutsch ist die Saar (The Saar is German), and began talking of another Anschluss. Paris was horrified; the French government vowed that it would never ratify EDC and German rearmament until Bonn promised never to take back the Saar into a German Reich. France's main reason: with the Saar, which now produces 28% of France's coal and 25% of its steel, French heavy industry can compete with West Germany's Ruhr; without it, French production would be hopelessly outmatched...