Word: rearmaments
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...that Germany should receive arms under the plan only after all the other members had been fully supplied; 3. that a supra-national European defense ministry be set up; 4. that certain parts of the Schuman Plan be put into effect before there was any action on German rearmament...
Everyone had expected French fears and French objections to rearming the Germans. But no one quite expected that Defense Minister Jules Moch would toss into the parley a new, complex idea that went far beyond military organization into international politics and economics. Its essence: West German rearmament must not be above the regimental or battalion level, and then only within the framework of a West European federation, subject to the authority of a West European parliament and based on the Schuman Plan for integrating the West European coal & steel industry...
...face of this sweeping and tortuously complicated proposal, the question of German rearmament or even continental defense became, for the moment, an idle topic of discussion. Chairman Marshall wasted no further effort, abruptly closed the meeting. Appointment of a supreme commander for Western Europe was deferred. The French plan was sent to NATO's Military Committee and Council of Deputies who will confer in London before month...
...West Germans grumped about the impasse in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over German rearmament: ". . . Strengthens the unrest in Germany and gives nourishment [to the Communists]," complained Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. NATO's indecision also encouraged some politicking by Adenauer's chief rival, Socialist Boss Kurt Schumacher, who demanded guarantees of German security before Germany contributed to West Europe's defense...
...National Security Resources Board, under hustling Chairman W. Stuart Symington, last week announced a broad policy to speed up plant expansion, thus make more materials available for both rearmament and civilian goods. Under NSRB's policy, manufacturers will be able to make sizable tax savings by writing off new plants in five years (instead of as long as 50 at present), providing NSRB approves them as necessary for the defense program. Such approval would probably not be hard to get for many companies. Said Symington: a firm does not have to be making arms to take advantage...