Word: rearmaments
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...before, or 2) going into the type of hemisphere isolation advocated by Joe Kennedy and many others still to be heard from. Alternative One called for all the powers that diplomacy, hard work and decision could muster. It had to be pursued as a task in operations, just as rearmament is a task in operations, and it had to be carried out without concessions on vital points, e.g.: abandonment of Asia to the Communists. Only if it failed would the second alternative be a choice, and it would be a Hobson's choice. The isolationists heard by the country...
...condition of rearmament, the Germans demanded an end of Western occupation and "equal partnership" in European defense. This meant that the Germans-again-had been put in a position where their legitimate desire for a means to defend themselves could be satisfied only if they played the dangerous game of working on the West's fear of Russia...
Tough talk from Germany was certain to increase French sentiment against German rearmament. The constructive way for France to resolve her fears would be to move ahead with a rapid French rearmament. But the French government showed no sign of doing that-and Washington made no move to hurry the French...
...West might still avert disaster through accelerated rearmament and more aid to have-not peoples, provided that Russia was not yet ready for total...
Upside Down. Many of the changes reflect the military's praiseworthy desire to have the latest models before freezing production on a mass basis. But production men know that models have to be frozen sometime or rearmament will never get rolling. And there is always a "lead time" of months between the time orders are placed and plants are ready for production. Most businessmen maintain that the U.S. is even now not in the lead-time period, simply because the orders have not been placed...