Word: rearmaments
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...Europe's gross national product has jumped from a sickly $133 billion in 1947 to a convalescent $164 billion in 1950. But little of this recovery Has yet benefited European workers and consumers. No sooner did shoes and bathtubs begin to flow into Europe than Soviet aggression stirred rearmament talk. Disgruntled Europeans feared that once again they would be cheated of butter to pay for guns...
Until France gets herself a government, long overdue decisions (on French airfields for NATO, West German rearmament) are impossible...
Prosperity. German trade unions have virtually dropped the class-warfare creed. In the coal and steel industries the unions are jealous of their newly won right to share in management's decisions. Labor leaders are striding into statesmanship; they support the Schuman Plan, German rearmament. By choosing Christian Fette as chairman to succeed the late venerated Hans Böckler, the unions have affirmed their political independence. Stern, stubby Chairman Fette, 56, will not dance when the doctrinaire Socialist Party pipes; his business is practical gains for German workers...
...Rearmament. On foreign policy, the Adenauer-Schumacher feud cleaves the Bundestag. Many German and Allied officials hope, probably in vain, for a "great coalition" of conservatives and Socialists so that German rearmament can be launched by bipartisan decision. German opposition to rearmament has decreased greatly in the last six months. There has been what the Germans call "Zeit zum umdenken"-time to think it over. General Eisenhower's declaration that the German soldier never lost his honor soothed much injured pride. Oddly enough, Neo-Nazi Ernst Remer (TIME, May 21) has also been helpful. A German veteran explained...
...defend Europe against a Communist attack, Ike Eisenhower believes he needs at least 40 divisions and that at least ten of them must be provided by Germany. Last week the Western Allies, after flubbing the urgent question of German rearmament for more than a year, took a step toward a solution...