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...Listening to the loudest comment, observers might conclude that EDC hasn't a prayer. But the decibel level is not a fair test. Those who are for EDC are for it in a quiet resigned way: in a land so recently occupied, people do not cheer for German rearmament, but only acknowledge its necessity. A hunt for alternatives is on among those EDC opponents who accept a controlled German rearmament if only it could be achieved without any controls on France. Some might vote for EDC if the supranational clauses would not immediately be put into effect. Others spin...
...Western ministers flatly rejected Molotov's proposal. Their objections were many. The Russian plan would set up all Germany for an ultimate Communist coup. Even those Frenchmen who oppose German rearmament inside a European Army (EDC) were alarmed at German "national armed forces" as an alternative. It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht. As for Molotov's proposal that each occupying nation withdraw all its troops from Germany, Bidault commented wryly: "I can well see the advantages for the Soviet Union in withdrawing part of its troops a few dozen kilometers...
America's strongest ally made plain last week that its own rearmament program is taking on the same new look that air-atomic power and the need for long-range economy combined to produce in the U.S. Two weeks after the Eisenhower Administration spelled out the new U.S. emphasis on "massive retaliatory power" instead of on "balanced forces," Britain's Minister of Defense implied that, in the years ahead, Britain too will key its defensive strategy more and more to "the new weapons [atom-carrying aircraft and guided missiles] which our scientists are set to develop...
...Thirdly, it is not possible to select a particular date on which we must be ready for hostilities down to the last button." Alexander, like Ike, apparently thought that the "crash buildup" policy under which the West geared its rearmament to a nicely calculated schedule of "years of maximum danger" had outlived its useful ness. "We have substituted, and I say 'we' with emphasis, for the uncontrolled rush to arms at any price, the long view and the steady, calculated buildup." One Alex ander ambition: to build up a mobile strategic reserve in the U.K. This dashed hopes...
...living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...