Word: rearmaments
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Speed is essential. The United Nations must send troops into Palestine to keep the peace. But its responsibility does not stop there. Taking advantage of the arms embargo on Israel, the Arabs would welcomes a chance for unmolested rearmament. The longer such a truce lasted without settlement, the closer would be the danger of total war in the Near East. Once the Security Council has forcibly established order, it must stop stalling and come quickly to a satisfactory permanent solution...
...same time, he warned against halting America's rearmament program. "One can hardly expect at the outset to do more than persuade the Soviet philosophers that the advent of world Communism has been postponed...
They are expected to consider particularly whether there is a need for immediate and drastic economic legislation in the form of federal controls and taxes to offset the economic imbalance created by such projects as the Marshall Plan and rearmament...
...Schlesinger the most serious problem now is the increasing pressure in Europe for rearmament with its concomitant diversion of recovery funds. "The only way out," he asserted, "will be by an iron-clad military commitment to the Marshal Plan countries and the immediate resumption of military lend-lease...
...other hand, we think time is working for us, because in a year or two we can hope to have made progress toward a stable Western Europe and toward a U.S.-Western European rearmament...