Word: rearmaments
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...fixed tactics are to slash weakness with armor, to sap strength with wiles. Out of the MacArthur hearing, the Kremlin learned that the end of U.S. patience was near. The Kremlin's obvious advantage is to unwind U.S. determination, take the urgency out of the West's rearmament. So the Kremlin whispered tantalizingly of peace. That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear...
Bone-Dry Tinder. All of those advantages, so painfully won, could be lost in a few months after a Korean cease-fire if the West lapsed into complacency. If rearmament slackened off, if the U.S. reduced its efforts to bolster up threatened Asiatic countries, if the West made concessions on Formosa or U.N. membership for Red China-then the Korean War would not have been worth the West's fighting...
...their enemy. Mass meetings, parades, plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists in Korea...
Communist Party, bossed by shrewd, tubby Jacques Duclos, 54, who took over when Top Red Maurice Thorez, 51, suffered a stroke last fall and went to Moscow for treatment. The Communists campaigned against the U.S., NATO, rearmament, inflation. In the last Assembly, the Communists held 167 seats out of 621, more than any other party...
...night session the French National Assembly voted, 414 to 177, over Communist opposition, to allot 743 billion francs ($2,115,000,000) to military expenditure in 1951. NATO officials calculated that, with other rearmament expenditures not shown in the budget, France would spend $2,600,000,000 (11% of the gross national product) on defense. A¶fter sitting on its hands for two months, Italy's Senate passed a new defense bill (TIME, March 19) to spend an additional 250 billion lire ($400 million) to modernize the nation's armed forces, bring them up to treaty strength...