Word: rearmaments
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Soul of a Soldier. But even this devious approach failed to swing the Assembly. From two directions at once, the opposition hit at Mendès and the London plan. On one side were Communists and Pacifists-mostly among the Socialists-who oppose all German rearmament, on the other, the "Europeans"-mainly of the Catholic M.R.P. As champions of EDC, the Europeans could not forgive the Premier who had presided. Pilate-like, over the death of EDC and who now pleaded for their support for a new European alliance, shorn of most of the safeguards that had distinguished...
Mendès-France was one Frenchman, at least, who seemed to realize that France's time for putting off things was near an end. "German rearmament has already been decided upon," he warned. "The only question is whether it will be with us or in spite...
...brooding purposefulness, the poorly led Social Democrats then parceled out their ammunition and unslung their weapons to fight Adenauer over the London agreement just as they had so long fought him over EDC-because, they insisted, West Germany's rearmament in the camp of the West would kill the last hope of German unification. Just before the Socialists' offensive jumped off, Russia's Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov dropped down on East Berlin's airport and produced from his briefcase a diplomatic time bomb designed to derail the London agreement...
...Foot. The Soviet Union, he announced, wants a new four-power conference on German reunification and is even "willing to discuss" the West's proposals for free elections. The death of EDC, explained Molotov suavely, had created "new possibilities of reconciliation." But if West Germany went ahead with rearmament, he warned, "the restoration of German unity would become impossible." The new Soviet gesture was itself evidence of how much Molotov feared the strength that West Germany would add to the West's alliance. But the Social Democrats, as Molotov had doubtless intended, happily snatched up his bomb...
...Germans hope to be making their own light arms, by 1959 their own tanks and jet fighters (under the London agreement, they can not make atomic weapons, big bombers, guided missiles, bacteriological and chemical weapons). The Bonn government is budgeting $2.7 billion for the first year of rearmament...