Word: rearmaments
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Since the end of the last war, Western European defense has hinged on the dispute over German Rearmament. Military fears in France and political complications in Germany have delayed a satisfactory solution to this issue despite ceaseless discussion and investigation. After the last Big 3 conference, however, delegates agreed on a compromise plan which has been accepted by the North Atlantic Alliance council. Now it is up to the Bonn government to ratify the proposal...
...troops to a European army, it is equally earnest about unifying the country. If a unified Germany gave troops for allied defense, the Western front would reach the Polish border. Neither the Russians nor the Allies would permit this situation. The German Social Democrats, furthermore, will object to the rearmament plan as it now stands because it closely resembles the Pleven Plan which they have always opposed. As a result, Bonn may face a serious political crisis before rearmament is settled...
...could the deficit be blamed on rearmament alone, though commercial and strategic stockpiling accounted for some of it. Britain's hasty attempt to find oil somewhere else than Iran, for example, would cost $300 million a year. Even more serious was the drop in the world price of sterling commodities such as wool, rubber and tin, with no commensurate drop in the price of dollar commodities...
...Shinwell was beaten. Attlee's moderates, with the powerful bloc votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party directorate, but the vote served notice that a solid platoon of rank & file Laborites shares the daydreams of the "Bevanly Host" (more class-war Socialism; opposition to rearmament). In Bevan's language, the U.S. is almost as flagrant a disturber of the peace as Russia...
...seats only represent 770,000 people out of the 5,500,000 Labor Party members." He believes that the power shifts within the Executive Committee does not represent a rank-and-file shift away from the Attlee leadership. Despite the fact that Bevan's demand for less spending on rearmament and more on social welfare is tempting to workers, Bevan has succeeded in alienating many of the trade unions--even the radical mine workers have come out against him. According to Beer, "the only real chance for Bevan's left-wing group to gain power would be if Labor...