Word: rearmaments
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, in a debate yesterday with attorney Frederick Ayer, Jr. '37 at the Arlington Street Church, strongly opposed the "Gibraltar" foreign policy of Herbert Hoover, stressing the importance of an American-sponsored European rearmament...
...fact, that many men are already mobilized in France. Calling up a single annual class of conscripts (without political exemptions) would raise another 200,000. The real limitation of French military manpower mobilization is the government's unwillingness to try to associate the people with the rearmament effort...
...short, the limitations of the rate of French rearmament are not population limitations and they are not economic limitations, they are political limitations, self-imposed by a government which has not yet really made up its mind to try to defend France against Communism...
...there will be no all-out effort, and NATO's new outline for action may result in too little, too late. As the senior partner in West Europe's defense, the U.S. this week was facing the duty and the right of insisting on a serious French rearmament effort...
...State Department. For instance, it could have called the French government's attention to that part of the speech which suggested (correctly) that the European defenses were not being built fast enough. Instead, Washington's answer to the Hoover speech was to justify the rate of European rearmament, thus further encouraging the "go slow" policy of the North Atlantic alliance...