Word: rearmaments
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...East German uprising as further proof that the Red army is in no shape to invade Western Europe. As a result, the French are in even less of a hurry today than they were six months ago to agree to a European army and West German rearmament. The West Germans, too, are less inclined to accept Konrad Adenauer's stern insistence that they must join arms with the West before they can think of negotiating with the Russians for a unified Germany. Chancellor Adenauer faces the toughest election of his life in September. Before then, the Western powers have...
...Vopos having failed, the Red program of East German rearmament was halted, and more than 2 billion East German marks (about $80 million) were transferred to a fund to "raise living standards" for workers. Ulbricht's relentless concentration on heavy industry, at the expense of production of things East Germans desperately need, was slowed down to allow production of more consumer goods. Some of the vast state stocks of food and clothing, a monument to Ulbricht's heavy-handed insistence on "state planning," were released to consumer retail channels. Many socialized plants and farms were returned to private...
...less from the war than the rest of the world did. Comparing June 1953 with June 1950, the U.S. and the non-Communist world is, in many respects, in a stronger position in the cold war than it was on the day the Korean war began. One measure is rearmament...
...state of his support and supply units, his ammunition stocks, and "our greatest weakness"-tactical air power; he was disturbed that West Germany's "contribution" was still denied him. Above all, he was alarmed by the way "nations are beginning to change their planned military programs from rapid rearmament to a longer-term policy . . . Any real slackening of effort may itself open the way to aggression...
...himself; he promised to submit a plan (unspecified) to the Bermuda conference for "lightening the load" in Indo-China. He was earnest about ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty, but hinted that defeat on this point would not cause him to dissolve parliament. He advocated a cut in rearmament together with a planned investment program calculated to stimulate production and halt unemployment. He promised continued close relations with the U.S., but the whole tenor of his speech was that France could not hope to have a real voice in international affairs, unless it obtained economic independence from America...