Word: rearmaments
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...Washington views on German rearmament, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...defenses against Communist attack; but he is also a member of a shaky French cabinet which is afraid to take vigorous anti-Communist action. It is reliably reported that Schuman hopes the U.S. will twist his arm a bit and force his government to get cracking on rearmament. Without such a display of U.S. pressure, the present French government would not dare to ask for essential defense measures...
...politicians had known all along that plans for Western Europe's defense made no sense unless they included a West German army. By last week Winston Churchill, Dean Acheson, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had publicly indicated that some degree of German rearmament was in the cards. But despite all these wisps of smoke, there was no fire...
Last week German Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher, who in the past had been loudly against rearmament, came out for it "in principle," but added some whopping conditions. Chief among them: more U.S. and British troops in Germany or, as he put it, "a monumental Western military might along the Elbe...
...congressional hearings released last week, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson forecast some other pinches. He gave an estimate of how much copper, aluminum and steel would be diverted from civilian production to the rearmament program in the year ending next June...