Word: rearmaments
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...grown bitter. He is not yet a card-carrying Communist. But he has joined the Red-led Confédération Générate du Travail, and he is swallowing Communist propaganda. The Communists predicted German rearmament, defeat in Indo-China, economic misery. "It's the only party that tells the truth," Bérard argues. Deep down, Jean is less a militant pro-Communist than a bitter man protesting. More than anything he would like to be somebody else. "If my parents had money, I would have been a student, and I think I would...
...hero as a German U-boat skipper in World War I and a martyr as a Nazi prisoner in World War II, West Germany's pugnacious Pastor Martin Niemöller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose...
More recently, it has been increasingly apparent that Moscow recognizes its failure to divide the West over the German rearmament issue. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Dwight Eisenhower were convinced that last week's deeds in Europe adequately set the stage for words. Said Dulles: "Our experience has shown that each time we have confronted the Russians with a strong and determined act they have been willing to talk seriously...
...months the U.S. had been resisting the idea of a "conference at the summit." Those months were the critical period when the issue of rearming West Germany hung in the balance. The U.S.S.R. made it menacingly plain that it would do everything it could and dared to prevent German rearmament. The Soviet attitude stirred neutralists and others to support a "conference at the summit" as a substitute for German rearmament. This sentiment was so strong that even Sir Winston Churchill repeatedly urged such a conference, if only to prove that Russian peace talk was insincere. The U.S. refused...
...another stop, heckled again about German rearmament, Eden replied: "I've fought two wars against the Germans. But if you are going to perpetuate hate, you'll never have peace. If you live in hate, you'll never bring peace to the world, my friend." The crowd loved it. "Bah," bellowed a husky throat. "Bah," echoed Eden. "Just listen to that answer. Any sheep can make that noise...