Word: rearmaments
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Step No. Two was an overall defense production board. This agency would coordinate the rearmament output of the twelve NATO members. Little progress had been made to date on standardization of equipment. The U.S. would be represented on this board by William L. Batt, a veteran World War II production man, former president of the S.K.F. Industries and present ECA chief in London...
...underlying weakness of the Brussels plan of action is French inaction. If the French rearm rapidly, they will have less cause to fear German rearmament. But the French government is so deeply committed to a "go slow" policy on French rearmament that there seems little chance of a speedup...
After two years lost in haggling-five meetings of NATO Foreign Ministers, four of Defense Ministers-the West was finally taking a decisive step toward rearmament...
Gleichberechtigung. If the Brussels conference ratified this agreement, the next major job would be to sell it to the Germans. As the Western military position had deteriorated, and the Russian threat grew, Germany's price for risking rearmament had risen. The Bonn government now demanded no less than Gleichberechtigung (equality). Politically, this meant ending the occupation statute, replacing it by a treaty giving Germany sovereignty. Militarily, it meant full German divisions, commanded by Germans...
...skies had not cleared completely. Britain's present gold and dollar surplus could be wiped out by British rearmament costs or by a fall in exports. The London Economist gravely noted last week: "The ability of the postwar British economy to survive in competitive conditions remains untested." For this reason, Hugh Gaitskell had carefully stressed that Marshall Plan aid was suspended, not ended. Should it again be required before the end of 1952, it would be forthcoming...