Word: rearmaments
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...time of decision had come-and M. Bidault was for EDC. He asked the Senators: "Since German rearmament is inevitable, do we want it to be controlled...
...impetus for West German rearmament, with or without safeguards, is growing. The military men of NATO insist that German arms are needed to defend Western Europe. Diplomats, particularly in the U.S., believe that German rearmament is necessary before the West can be strong enough to force diplomatic concessions from Moscow. Businessmen, particularly in Britain, want German rearmament so that German industry will have to contribute its share to the common defense, instead of being free to spend all its energy on grabbing world markets...
...construction interests in Spain and Switzerland; Heinkel put out machine tools and motor scooters from his Stuttgart factory. Two months ago, they formed an "Aero Union" to handle orders that might be coming from NATO, but thanks to the ban, and to French and British opposition to German rearmament, no orders came...
Much of the foreign competition was spurred by the U.S. Government itself, which gave long-term contracts to producers abroad to insure a big enough supply for the Korean war.and the rearmament program. As foreign mines stepped up production and defense demands tapered, prices started down. Lead has dropped from 19½? a Ib. in the spring of 1952 to 13½?; zinc has fallen even more sharply, from 19½? t010?. At current low prices, U.S. mines simply cannot compete with foreign producers. Up to 70% of U.S. mine costs are in labor, at an average...
...with anxiety that American pressure for Western German rearmament is a divisive and inflammatory rather than a pacifying factor in Europe, and that the strengthening of Dr. Adenauer has coincided with the revival of militant German national ambitions...