Word: rearmaments
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...Future U.S. policy in Europe seems at first glance to be still obscured by unanswered questions: German rearmament, Spain, Yugoslavia, etc. But here again this winter's events, decisions and shifts shape the general answers from which specific policies will flow...
Such a defense is impossible and the U.S. commitment a criminal waste of American men unless France is rapidly rearmed. Former U.S. complacency with the foot-dragging of weak French governments cannot be reconciled with the new U.S. commitments to Europe. Washington will have to press the French into rearmament, and when that is begun, French fears of German rearmament are more likely to diminish...
London and Washington feared that Tito's troubles at home plus the rearmament of his hostile neighbors might tempt the Kremlin into a Balkan Korea. A sign of U.S. backing for Tito was the visit to Belgrade of Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins. The U.S. Mediterranean fleet has just completed joint maneuvers with the British. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, like Tito, broadly hinted that "the fabric of peace" would be rent asunder by World War III if Yugoslavia were attacked...
Hardly anyone except Winston Churchill thought the Labor government should be challenged with a vote of censure on rearmament. But the old battler insisted. In Parliament he moved: "That the House, while supporting all measures conceived in the real interest of national security, has no confidence in the ability of ... present ministers to carry out an effective and consistent defense policy...
...Conservatives hoped to split the Labor majority at a vulnerable point: where the government's pacifist wing flutters in protest against the government's strong rearmament program. But Churchill did not touch the vital issue. His resolution was not against rearmament, but for a more efficient rearmament. As he spoke for his motion, the Tory leader plainly showed the weakness of his argument. He taunted the Laborites for a gingerly approach, lamely charged that Prime Minister Clement Attlee had failed to produce atomic bombs in Britain...