Word: rearmaments
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...Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell, French Finance Minister René Mayer and the representatives of 47 other nations. Gathered to give the World Bank and International Monetary Fund a fiscal year-end review, they were telling stories of inflation and dollar gaps. Gaitskell promised that Britain would continue its rearmament, asked for U.S. help in obtaining scarce materials, particularly steel. ¶In Ottawa this week, representatives of the twelve NATO nations, including the U.S.'s General Omar Bradley, will discuss how to shoulder the financial burdens of defense without wrecking Western Europe's recovered economy. ¶France's General...
...began the "fight for peace." The Cominform called it "the pivot of the entire activity of the Communist Parties." The cry of peace could oppose the keeping of U.S. troops in Europe; it could stir up workers by blaming low wages and high prices on rearmament programs; it could prey on mothers whose sons must fight, on men of God who hated war, on the indifferent and the despairing, on the timid who feared that arming for self-defense was provocative...
After frolicking in the Adriatic, they discussed the state of the world. Tito does not think Russia aims at a general war but she might "fall into it." He is in favor of Western rearmament (Bevan is not). Most disturbing question to Reporter Bevan: Can Tito maintain his dictatorial hold on the touchy Yugoslav peasants?* Bevan admitted that the forced seizure by the government of the peasants' pigs and grain was condemned in the Western world. "But," he added defensively, "it is difficult to see how the Yugoslav government could do otherwise...
...London's Economist: "Bluntly . . . solvency and security must be provided out of the mouths and off the backs of the British people." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell had another familiar remedy. He planned to ask the U.S. for more dollars to help Britain bear the burden of rearmament, and replace the Marshall Plan aid which was suspended last January...
...Geneva last week, a Russian launched into a tiresome tirade on a familiar theme: that Western rearmament eats up money that ought to be spent on the world's underprivileged. At this point, studious Isador Lubin, U.S. delegate to the U.N. Economic and Social Council session in Geneva, broke in with a quiet recital that was worth half a dozen angry replies: "Let's see how deeply concerned [the Russians] are about the fate of these peoples," he said, and proceeded to tick off the Soviet record in contributions to international welfare agencies...