Word: rearmaments
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...decay of the wartime Alliance, Russia's shortsighted intransigence in the German occupation. There was the West's decision to form one unified country of West Germany without waiting for a peace treaty. There was the Berlin blockade, which jolted the West into the urgency of rearmament; the Korean war, which shocked it into the decision that it needed German troops as well. There was some $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Germany. There was the privilege of concentrating on building industries and markets while West Germany's conquerors bent to the ordeal of arming themselves. There...
...Nevertheless, the rearmament of Germany is inevitable; if it is not armed as a part of a supranational army, with controls on its size and use, then it will be armed with a new national Wehrmacht...
...deem it false ... to speak of German rearmament," Adenauer said not long ago. "This is an expression which has no place in those new forms toward which we are striving. We want nothing of the old. We do not want to restore a national army...
Historian Wheeler-Bennett ends his book in a race with the headlines. As a realist, he approves the rearmament of Western Germany; as a realist, he also has qualms about the lessons of the past. Historian Bennett's hope, and the hope of the rest of the free world, is that Germans also can learn the lessons of the past...
There are Frenchmen who will go to almost any lengths to prevent German rearmament under EDC. Much of this sentiment exists among the nationalist adherents of Charles de Gaulle. Last month the bitter general himself said that France "is still an ally of Russia in case of German menace," and last week another Gaullist cried that "America's attempts to push France into EDC are really pushing France into the arms of Russia...