Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan. Dulles' insistent public demands for Japanese rearmament were received with ill grace by Prime Minister Yoshida, because of the political explosiveness of the issue. Last week, however, Japan's two largest political parties announced their joint support of a rearmament program that will reduce the power vacuum in northeast Asia...
...plug for it. His stubbornness began to bear fruit last month when West Germany showed its growing strength and political stability by re-electing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a strong EDC partisan. France, which had blocked EDC, suddenly reawakened to the danger that the U.S. might insist on independent German rearmament if EDC did not materialize. Result: the French government seemed to be moving toward acceptance of EDC, and prospects for a West German contribution to the defense of Europe looked better than they had in two years...
...with anxiety that American pressure for Western German rearmament is a divisive and inflammatory rather than a pacifying factor in Europe, and that the strengthening of Dr. Adenauer has coincided with the revival of militant German national ambitions...
...often done in the past). Attlee let them stand. The council adopted a foreign policy plank which recommended that: The Peking Communists should be recognized as "the effective" government of China and admitted to the U.N. (as the Tories also advocate), Nationalist Formosa should be "neutralized," German rearmament should be postponed until the West makes further effort at a four-power German settlement...
...getting together on the program, Japan's two major political parties hurdled one of the big obstacles that had stood in the way: the anti-rearmament sentiments of Japanese women, who were granted the vote by Japan's postwar MacArthur constitution." Neither party dared take on by itself the political risk of going against the women...