Word: rearmaments
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...spreading from limb to limb and country to country in Western Europe. The new phrase, Cold Peace (TIME, Oct. 20)-the notion that Europe can trust the Kremlin to live dangerously, but without going to war-is seized upon avidly by Frenchmen seeking new excuses to obstruct German rearmament, by Britons who fear that rearmament is the road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel Shinwell, former Laborite Minister of Defense...
...Infiltrate and corrode West Europe's Socialist parties by enlisting them in anti-rearmament coalitions, i.e., popular fronts...
...Yoshida made a great show of offering him pillows, later volunteered to read Hatoyama's speech for him. In last week's election, Hatoyama polled more votes than any other candidate. Almost alone of Liberal candidates, he urged that the Japanese constitution be revised to permit rearmament. Yoshida, though pro-Western, ducked the delicate rearmament question. When the Liberals meet at the end of this month to choose a Prime Minister, Hatoyama will seriously challenge his old standin. As of now, the betting is on Yoshida...
...Stalin showed great "serenity" over Western rearmament. While his staff agrees that air power and atomic bombs are terribly destructive weapons, they feel that they are not decisive. To win wars, the army of one side must occupy the territory of the other, and so far the U.S. does not have armies capable of such large-scale land warfare...
...serious consequences of the pressures of this period of rearmament is the diversion of scholars to immediate problems. Partial mobilization has accentuated the trend toward overemphasis on the practical which is a consequence of the type of society in which we live. For example, in the biological sciences the clamor is for a cure for cancer rather then an understanding of the processes of growth normal and abnormal. In the physical sciences some of our best men are now spending long hours on military problems. This is a national necessity, but a loss to the advance of science. Technology...