Word: rearmaments
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...Friend Won. At week's end. General Charles de Gaulle assembled his dwindling supporters to give them the new line. He mildly praised Mendès' plan for rearming Germany ("infinitely better" than EDC) but thought German rearmament would be difficult to put into effect. "Not that the men in office lack patriotism and personal capability," he said; "the ardor, the worth and vigor of the present Premier are there as proof." De Gaulle insisted that before finally rearming Germany, France should lead negotiations for "a modus vivendi" with Russia. The week's dramas had demonstrated...
...both provinces, the opposition Socialists had tried to stir up resentment against German rearmament, but got nowhere with the issue. The No. 2 party in Adenauer's coalition, the right-wing Free Democrats, likewise tried to stir up nationalist sentiments by calling Adenauer's Saar concessions a betrayal. They got nowhere either, and their chastened leader, Thomas Dehler (TIME, Dec. 6), hastened to reassure newsmen that he and the Chancellor had no differences...
Delicate Subject. After all the Soviet propaganda against "guns for the Huns," the Communists found East German rearmament a delicate subject. Czech Premier Siroky suggested that since "the revival of West German militarism" particularly menaces East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, these three countries should "take emphatic, joint measures for the safeguarding of their frontiers." Russia does not usually encourage pacts among its satellites. U.S. experts speculated that the Russians wanted to set up the Poles and Czechs as watchdogs on the East German army. It would need watching. For since the riots of June 17, 1953, no Communist could...
Chancellor Adenauer's well-laid plans for German rearmament also began to go awry. Outside the locked iron gates of Augsburg's Rosenau Stadium last week milled an overflow crowd of some 2,000 men-crutch-borne veterans and draftage youngsters. Derisively they barked the familiar German parade ground orders: Achtung. Vorwarts marsch. Rechts urn, links urn, rechts um." Inside the stadium restaurant, another 1,000 jammed crutch-littered tables, guzzling beer from massive mugs and laughing at the youngsters who mock goose-stepped around in paper hats...
Blank says proudly: "I am working class." But last week Germany's Socialist Party and the powerful West German Trade Unions Federation would have none of Blank or his army. Hundreds of Protestant ministers joined in petitions against rearmament...