Word: rearmaments
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After the Waldorf meeting adjourned, with all sense of urgency and unity and purpose fizzled out of it, negotiations continued on the detailed conditions on which the French would accept German rearmament. This week brought announcement from Britain that the French had agreed to a compromise. At last the construction of a unified defense of Europe under a U.S. commander could begin...
...unnecessary delay had brought other results. The French aroused German resentment and tossed the rearmament issue into German politics. Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher took a strong stand against rearmament unless the Western powers recognized German "equality" with the other Western nations. Schumacher violently attacked Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for agreeing to the West's conditions. Schumacher's followers went further than he and fought election campaigns with demagogic anti-armament slogans. The Socialists in the last three weeks have made significant election gains in Hesse, Württemberg-Baden and even Bavaria...
...rearmament going...
Free elections in Korea supervised by a neutral country; a hands off policy for Chinese affairs, including Formosa; foregoing German rearmament and stationing a 20 division Angle-American garrison in France and the low countries, supported by French forces of equal strength were other recommendations urged in the telegram...
...know what to buy. Asked when he thought color TV would be seen generally throughout the U.S., CBS's Frank Stanton could give only an iffy answer. If the courts do not rule against CBS; if congressional probes do not hold up the FCC decision; if U.S. rearmament does not absorb the electronics industry; if there are no serious shortages of essential materials- waving away all these ifs, Stanton believes that color will be transmitted from all U.S TV stations by the end of 1952. That means that even if things move as fast as possible, the buyer...