Word: rearmaments
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Only in the conference of the Big Three foreign ministers, who were dragging their feet on the question of German rearmament (see INTERNATIONAL), did the old hesitations and half-efforts persist. Otherwise, for the first time in many months, the nation could begin to feel that the track was clear and the train crew knew where it was going...
...that any military occupation outlives its usefulness after five years) as well as Republican Adviser John Foster Dulles who had been working on the treaty problem for the past four months. The U.S. would seek a peace treaty without economic or political restrictions or limits on Japan's rearmament for her own defense...
...chance to defend itself without U.S. help. And the U.S. has no reason to consider as an asset a Europe which stays at or near its present defenseless state. These two facts, considered coolly, mean that the U.S. has only two practical courses: 1) demand a maximum effort toward rearmament by European nations, or 2) pull out of Europe militarily and economically rather than waste men and materials on a hopeless proposition...
Inevitable Answer. Most of the argument at the CFM and the NAC turned on point 2, the rearmament of Germany. Instead of telling the European nations what the conditions of defense had to be, the U.S. requested agreement on rearming Germany and on other actions unwelcome to some of the Europeans. From France's Robert Schuman and some others, the U.S. got the inevitable answer: let's wait a while...
...charges were pretty much the same: aiding in Hitler's rise to power, and preparing Germany's economy for war. His defense was pretty much the same: he had opposed Hitler's rearmament program after 1934, he had been sympathetic to the resistance movement after 1938. Said he at the fourth trial's end: "From judges with common sense you could not expect any other verdict...