Word: rearmaments
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...session in London this year, Scelba, who must contend with tossed insults, ink pots and punches in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, sighed and said of Britain's Parliament: "It's like a family gathering!" Under his administration, Italy ratified the Western defense treaties for German rearmament, took part in the Trieste settlement, firmly aligned itself with...
...last chance to upset the Paris accords for German rearmament. But even as the Senate debate opened, there was a strong sense of realism, of decisions made, of the inevitable accepted. Six members of Faure's Cabinet had voted against the accords in the Assembly and six had abstained. Now the Premier rose to declare that his entire Cabinet was united in support. Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay. who had abstained in the Assembly, set the theme of realism. The choice, he said, was not between an armed and an unarmed Germany; it was between a free France...
...Seems Sure. Senator after Senator rose to explain at length either that dislike of German rearmament was leading him to vote against or that dislike of German rearmament would not prevent him from voting for. Only the 16 Communists and some of the 48 Gaullists among the 320 members were implacably hostile, but as the oratory droned on, there arose real danger that the hesitant and reluctant would insist on delaying amendments...
...only material power counts, our pretensions at playing the fourth big power were judged ridiculous by the three others because they really were." Le Monde saw it as a parallel to Sir Winston's recent letter to Pierre Mendès-France. warning that if Paris rejected German rearmament, the Allies would once again have to proceed with an "empty chair...
...years after Yalta, Germany will receive national sovereignty, the right to create a 500,000-man army, to join NATO and a seven-nation Western European Union. After a short debate, the Bundesrat completed (29 to 9) ratification of the Paris treaties. Now the only possible roadblock to German rearmament is the French Senate, which is scheduled to vote this week...