Word: rearmaments
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...often intangible stuff is fateful political decision made. This week, when Britain's Labor Party meets in its Scarborough conference, it faces a close and bitter division on the most urgent such decision before the West-the rearming of Germany. A Labor delegate, an advocate of German rearmament fighting fierce rank-and-file opposition, said on the eve of the conference: "Senator McCarthy may well decide this vote. All he stands for-all his identification with American policy in the eyes of average people-will force something between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes to go against...
...tourists made their several ways back to Britain, the compulsive belief in the possibility of "peaceful coexistence" seemed to be swelling back home. Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress, the right wing of the Labor Party, gathered in convention at Brighton. A motion in favor of German rearmament, which went through overwhelmingly last time, barely squeaked through last week. In two weeks-the Labor Party itself will be holding its annual conference. If conservative unions like the T.U.C. have so little enthusiasm for tasks such as German rearmament, what could be expected from the Socialist constituencies, where Nye Bevan...
...Allied occupation of West Germany and for unfettered German sovereignty. "We ask this," said der Alte, "for our national honor and our justifiable national feelings." Once Germany has its sovereignty, he said, it would apply for admission to NATO and consent to restrictions on German rearmament. The restrictions would have to be voluntary, for since the death of EDC not even Adenauer will agree to discriminations imposed by outsiders; the restrictions would also have to be real, for otherwise France would blackball the German bid for NATO membership...
...Tory government was in a hurry, for unless some quick solution could be found for German rearmament, its Labor opponents might be tempted to cash in on the mounting Germanophobia being whipped up in Britain (TIME, Aug. 23). Sir Winston Churchill snorted that it was time for "action, not talk"; the London Times brooded that unless "something is done," future generations might remember August 1954 "as almost as dark a date for Europe as August...
Editor Lasky makes no attempt to follow the smaller turns of U.S. foreign policy. The magazine fits within broad U.S. objectives, but argues both sides of such questions as EDC, socialism v. capitalism, etc. Says Lasky: "Can you imagine telling our readers in 1946 that rearmament was bad, then trying to tell them in 1950 it was good after...