Word: rearmaments
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...Europeans into a tizzy of alarm. Last week's Communist blustering seemed to misread the mood of Western Europe, and to be almost irrelevant. The fact seemed to be that in a slow, subsurface fashion, the people of Western Europe had finally made up their minds that German rearmament is inevitable. There was plenty of agitation in last week's parliamentary debating in Bonn and Paris, but local passions, not the Kremlin threats, were what caused...
Straw Hats & Helmets. Against this case, Ollenhauer's Socialists could only complain that rearmament is unpopular with German youth, and that to join irrevocably with the West is to abandon East Germans and perhaps in time to cause a Bruderkrieg (literally, war of brothers) between two armed Germanies. Answered one of Adenauer's supporters: "There is no longer a choice between straw hat and the steel helmet. The choice now is between a steel helmet with or without a Red star...
...artful designs of his enemies. The Assembly's expert Premier-killers, mobilized by Georges Bidault who wants vengeance on Mendès for the death of EDC, were playing a cat-and-mouse game, keeping him in office for their own purposes. Resigned to the inevitability of German rearmament, these expert infighters were determined to identify Mendès with that needed but unpopular measure. Then they meant to kick him out, perhaps on the Indo-China issue...
With 7,000,000 men under arms (compared with 5,900,000 in Russia and Eastern Europe), NATO's conventional rearmament is virtually complete. Henceforth, SHAPE will concentrate on what it calls the "New Approach." Britain's Viscount Montgomery explained it in a recent speech: "I want to make it absolutely clear that we at SHAPE are basing all our operational planning on using atomic and thermonuclear weapons in our defense. It is no longer a question of 'They may be used.' It is very definitely, 'They will be used-if we are attacked...
...sound of Molotov's saber-rattling could reach French ears, the Assembly's powerful Foreign Affairs Committee took a vote. This was the formidable body that had doomed EDC, 24 to 18. Now, by a combination of ayes, nays and abstentions, it recommended ratification of German rearmament, by a majority of but one vote.*By this narrow margin, Mendes, man of close shaves, had got past another difficulty. Next week the Assembly itself will debate ratification...