Word: rearmaments
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...urging his beast to get up off its knees. French Premier Pierre Mendès-France cajoled and prodded the French National Assembly towards the decision it had balked at for years. Now both France's allies and France's enemies demanded that the issue of German rearmament be met, and Mendès promised that France would declare itself...
...supranationality had been put into the Brussels Treaty Organization (BRUTO) to limit German arms without really limiting French arms. BRUTO, explained Mendès, would give France "the right of veto . . . on any increase in the armed forces of another participant, for example, Germany." Instead of using German rearmament as an "excuse for withdrawing their troops," the U.S., Britain and Canada as well had agreed to maintain their commitments on the Continent...
...optimistic to hope that during this period negotiations [with Russia] will have [ended] in disarmament." It was almost as if the Premier were inviting Frenchmen to use the London agreement as they had for four years used EDC, to delay Germany's sovereignty and rearmament while pretending to inch towards it. In effect, he was asking the Assembly to approve German rearmament in theory, while suggestting sotto voce that the new German army might never become a reality...
...Asia. And one of the largest reefs in the way of real understanding is a false conception of India's so-called "neutrality." Urging Red China's admission to the United Nations, refusing to join a Southeast Asian collective security pact, trying to put the brakes on West German rearmament--in all India's policies, Prime Minister Nehru and his top U.N. delegate, Krishna Menon, seem at first to be following a foreign policy that is consistently "neutral on the other side of the fence...
...polling began, a tense silence fell over the great hall. When Party Secretary Morgan Phillips received the paper bearing the result, his hand shook. By a vote of 3,270,000 to 3,022,000, the national executive's resolution supporting German rearmament had carried. The margin of 248,000 votes was even closer than it looked: only three days before, the executives of the woodworkers union had met, decided to reverse their anti-rearmament stand at the Trades Union Congress, and to switch their 129,000 votes to Attlee's side. Without that switch, the Bevan forces...