Word: rearmaments
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...Bevan was a changed and embittered man. Ever since he broke with Clement Attlee over the Labor Party's support for a Southeast Asia alliance and German rearmament, Bevan had kept to himself. Night after night he sat brooding in the "Bevanite" corner of the Commons' Smoke Room with one or two henchmen. Only rarely did the old wit flash out, the great laugh boom...
...Blow. Last week, by a decisive vote of 505,000 to 223,000, the miners turned Nye and his policies down, and picked Gaitskell. To make the matter doubly clear, they rejected by a similar margin Bevan's starfcl against German rearmament. The vote was emphatic indication that despite the noisy outcry, Britons still reject the easy panacea of neutralism...
Mendès did not say on what terms he would get peace, or what formula he would achieve for German rearmament. He simply said he would solve these two problems or get out. To a weary and politically conscious people, the appeal of this gamble was unique and overwhelming...
...there remains the nettlesome, wearisome subject of EDC. Mendès-France insists that there has never been a majority for EDC in its present form in the Assembly, despite what U.S. diplomats report. But he thinks there is ,a majority for some kind of German rearmament. Perhaps it is the kind described in the current Parisian quip: "The French want a German army bigger than Russia's [175 divisions] but smaller than France's [18 divisions...
...sharp was the Japanese distaste for rearmament, and so intense the politicians' fear of a new group of militarists, that the constabulary had to be called the "National Police Reserve." In the new military semantics, divisions were "regions," officers were "superintendents," tanks were "special vehicles." After Japan signed a peace treaty with the U.S. (September 1951), the police became the "National Safety Force" and expanded to a 110,000 army, a 10,000-man navy. Last week Japan took the final step, and its force was changed from "Safety" to "Self-Defense." To help with the changeover...