Word: rearmaments
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...France, cabled a correspondent last week, "there is not a majority for liking German rearmament, but there is a ma jority for having it." Yet it was the French who had first insisted on the complexities of the European Army, as their price for letting Germany rearm. Now many Frenchmen, including Marshal Juin, were coming to see that the chains that bind Germany would also chafe France...
...question of the moment is whether abandonment of the European Army would in fact hasten German rearmament. There is no reason to believe that the French people (or their politicians) are in any greater hurry to accept a revived German Wehrmacht and a return of the German general staff, in preference to Germans-in-European-uniforms under international command. To satisfy De Gaulle would also be to antagonize Germany, for De Gaulle insists that Germany must sign a separate treaty with France agreeing to junior status and fewer troops than the French have in France. Germany also has to acknowledge...
...closing days of a Moral Rearmament Movement assembly in New Delhi, Frank Buchman, founder and leader of the organization, was honored for his "services to the cause of world morality and peace." The award: a copy of the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth), and a marble statue of a Hindu...
...five in planning? Soldiers thought that kind of talk should only be heard after a minimum defense has been created. Diplomats reported that yes, they think they can detect a gradual relaxation in Russian pressure. Economists agreed that Europe's brittle economy cannot stand the strain of faster rearmament...
...black last November, and backed by a $128 million surplus. But the good news was tempered with a startling announcement. To keep the recovery solid, said Churchill, Britain has decided to slash its defense spending by as much as 29% in the next two years; the original three-year rearmament program would now take up to five years. That announcement, made to Parliament by a less forceful Prime Minister, might well have rocked the nation's confidence. Secure at 78 in his role of jealous guardian of the nation's security, Winston Churchill made the announcement without...