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Instead, Lodge said, "the Administration decided for one-half rearmament. Now we have about 20 percent of that one-half...
...esteem from the Skoda steel works: a bulletproof Skoda limousine. Such a gift, said the beaming Togliatti, "*is proof of the industrial ability and excellent workmanship of Czechoslovakia, working...freely to put out cars for the common man at a time when capitalist industry is concentrating on brutal rearmament...
Main recommendations: !) slow down rearmament and try to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia; 2) restrain the "breakneck" pace of U.S. rearmaments; 3) resist German rearmament and Franco Spain's admission to the Atlantic alliance; 4) maintain veto power over any warlike mission of a U.S. bomber using British bases; 5) use more stringent socialist controls to keep down the cost of living in Britain; 6) establish, with Russian participation, a World Mutual Aid Plan (which would have to be largely financed by the wicked, capitalist U.S.) to help underprivileged countries...
...except a pacifist or partisan of the Kremlin," explains Bevan, "would argue that military strength is not needed to deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good...
Slowdown? But there are already signs that in the long run, a cease-fire would slow the pace of rearmament (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Although Defense Chief Charles E. Wilson insists there must be no letup, Government officials who have publicly backed Wilson's campaign to complete the defense program by mid-1953 now privately say it might better be stretched out to 1954 or 1955. Economy-minded Congressmen, already calling for a closer check on military spending, have plumped for a cut of $1 billion to $2 billion in next year's $49 billion schedule of defense spending...