Word: rearmaments
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...feeling of quickening confidence and growing strength. There were still the usual creakings, complaints and outraged squawks from a many-jointed democracy trying to pull itself together for a united effort. But there could no longer be any doubt that the U.S. was settling down to the job of rearmament and making real progress...
Under the surface lay a deep split in the Labor Party on the rearmament issue. A few of its members were proCommunist, more were anti-American, and still more were bemused by the pacifism which had a longtime influence on British Christian Socialism. Last week 19 Labor M.P.s signed motions calling for reconsideration of plans to arm Germany and for a world peace drive by Britain...
...Labor Party split was symbolized by the fact that Harold Lawrence, running for the House of Commons in a by-election at Bristol, is an all-out, no-arms, no-armor pacifist and the official candidate of the Labor Party, which is committed to rearmament. Attlee refused to send Lawrence the usual letter of endorsement, but his approval by the party executive committee was not revoked...
Winston Churchill made a last desperate attempt to halt the Feb. 15 takeover of iron and steel plants. He moved: "That this House, in view of the record production attained by the iron and steel industry and the urgent needs of the rearmament program, is of the opinion that . . . nationalization ... is not in the public interest and should be reversed." Churchill called steel nationalization "a deed of partisan aggression . . . unpatriotic." A general election "cannot be long delayed, however tightly and even passionately ministers may cling to their offices...
Dulles then flew from Tokyo to Manila to begin a series of talks with the Philippine, Australian and New Zealand governments, who are worried over Japanese rearmament. In Manila, he assured Filipinos that a treaty would leave Japan "a bulwark against the new tide of despotism which threatens the Asia mainland...