Word: rearmaments
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Blunt & Plain. Addressing his own constituents at Woodford, Essex, Sir Winston was in the midst of a routine speech defending German rearmament and reminding them that he was the first to warn that the West needed Germany on its side against Russian aggression. "Even before the war had ended," he went on, "and while the Germans were surrendering by hundreds of thousands, I telegraphed to Lord Montgomery, directing him to be careful in collecting the German arms, to stack them so that they could easily be issued again to the German soldiers whom we should have to work with...
...Labor Party, too, was in a bit of a scrape. The Attlee moderates had solidly outvoted the Bevanite dissidents to approve German rearmament in the party caucus, but in the House of Commons, Labor's leaders had ordered their members to abstain on the issue rather than divide the party over it (TIME, Nov. 29). Seven Laborites defied the order, six to vote against the Paris agreements, one to vote defiantly for them (he quickly became known as the only member of the Labor Party "who had the courage of Mr. Attlee's convictions"). Nervously, the Attlee leadership...
Americans need not fear the rearmament of Germany," U.S. High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus, told a Chicago audience Thursday night...
Before crowded galleries, Sir Anthony Eden rose in the House of Commons last week to move the approval of the London and Paris accords on German rearmament. "The only real alternative," he said, "would be to plunge the West into confusion and despair. Is anybody seriously going to contend we should be better able to negotiate with Soviet Russia if we were in that particular condition...
Next day Bevan addressed the House. As always, the House listened with fascination to the Welsh lilt and the demagogic half-truth. He was not against German rearmament, Bevan insisted, but "the pace and altitude of that armament...