Word: rearmaments
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...nights France's painful dialogue with itself sputtered and droned in the public amphitheater of parliament. The National Assembly, after months of deliberately avoiding a decision, was being asked to hint-timidly and tentatively-whether it will vote for or against the six-nation European Army and German rearmament when the real showdown comes early next year...
Late on the fourth day of debate, he took the rostrum with a thick manuscript. Haltingly, fuzzily, he began to speak. "The question arises," said he. "whether German rearmament can really be avoided . . . The line of defense should be pushed as far to the east as possible. The defense of Europe . . . requires great depth. This depth can be obtained only by carrying the line of defense as far as is possible-that is to say, by including Germany...
...months Japan's astute. 75-year-old Premier Shigeru Yoshida, widely known as "the Fox," has been maneuvering behind the political bushes to get ready for Japanese rearmament and a close defense alignment with the U.S. The non-Communist left, which opposes rearmament, is growing stronger in the Diet; Yoshida's conservative Liberal Party is not big enough for a majority alone. Seven weeks ago Yoshida brought the Progressive Party (a conservative splinter group) back into line on rearmament. Then the Fox turned to a group of conservatives headed by a:ling Ichiro Hatoyama, who once presided over...
...entire Hatoyama group would be back in the Yoshida camp, some willingly, some as a matter of political self-preservation. Leftists and neutralists were enraged. If the Hatoyama group stays in line, Yoshida the Fox will control a bare but adequate majority in the Diet on the rearmament votes that lie ahead...
...mood for policymakers, in Moscow or in Washington. 4) Only those committed to the inevitability of World War III can deny the possibility of the peaceful coexistence of Russia and the West. If this possibility is accepted, there is no point in continuing the cold war and the rearmament race ; the West already has enough arms for defense ... let us concentrate more and more on the economic and social uplifting of underdeveloped areas. If war is regarded as inevitable - and it is presumably hoped to win it - what do TIME-readers propose to do when...