Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp, clear challenge. The West was willing to gamble the very core of its defense strategy - German rearmament within a European army- on a program that would leave Germans free to accept or reject alliance with the West, with Russia, with anyone...
America's strongest ally made plain last week that its own rearmament program is taking on the same new look that air-atomic power and the need for long-range economy combined to produce in the U.S. Two weeks after the Eisenhower Administration spelled out the new U.S. emphasis on "massive retaliatory power" instead of on "balanced forces," Britain's Minister of Defense implied that, in the years ahead, Britain too will key its defensive strategy more and more to "the new weapons [atom-carrying aircraft and guided missiles] which our scientists are set to develop...
...Bidault ticked off the West's terms for a German settlement: 1) A go-ahead for West Germany's rearmament and her entrance into the family of European democracies through...
...week asked his country's elder statesmen to hand over control of The Netherlands' proud little army and 20,000-man air force to a supranational authority that does not yet exist. The European Army (EDC) has never raised cheers in Holland, for it will speed the rearmament of Germany, a nation that overran the Dutch only 13 years ago. The Dutch fear current French weakness as well as future German strength. But the Dutch, a hardheaded people, know no better alternative to what their Foreign Minister called "the Russian threat" and "the German problem...
...reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against Hitler. Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty by Neville Chamberlain, he resigned in protest against the 1938 Munich agreement with the Axis, told his colleagues: "I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter ... I can still walk about the world with my head erect." During...