Word: rearmaments
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Conant conferred with Erich Ollenhauer, Socialist opposition leader at Bonn Saturday about West German rearmament and Berlin conditions. West Germany has recently been plagued by food and housing problems created by an influx of refugees from East Germany...
...strain." Dulles made the shrewd move of conferring with Socialist Party Leader Erich Ollenhauer (the only opposition leader he saw on the trip), listened to the Socialist's counterarguments, then firmly told him that the U.S. would consider no alternatives-it is the European Army or no German rearmament...
...NORTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE. European rearmament schedules are lagging. NATO is losing the spirit that Eisenhower infused...
Since Korea, one goal of the rearmament program has been to build up a big enough supply of weapons to tide the U.S. over the first year of an all-out war. How big should that supply be? In Washington last week, the Office of Defense Mobilization's eight-man Advisory Committee on Production Equipment, headed by Stude-baker's Chairman & President Harold S. Vance, gave a startling answer: nobody seems to have the faintest idea. Furthermore, the military apparently has not taken into consideration the fact that some items could be brought into full production...
...making an overall survey of postKorea rearmament policy, the Vance committee talked some hard sense about the progress and shortfalls of the arms program. Now that military equipment is coming out in some volume, said the committee, it is time to re-examine the whole idea of building up stocks of weapons that may be obsolete by the time they are needed. The committee's conclusion: the U.S. should stop its hand-to-mouth buying and "substitute, to the greatest extent practicable, production capacity for the stockpiling of military end-items." Much progress has already been made in boosting...