Word: rearmaments
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...fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty unemployment in the engineering trades; French labor unions threatened new demands for wage increases. With
...Margate, the breezy seaside resort 65 miles east of London, 938 representatives of Britain's trade unions last week made two patriotic decisions; 1) they voted overwhelmingly to support "the greatest possible measure of rearmament," even if that means curtailing Britain's social services; 2) they agreed, more reluctantly, to restrain their demands for wage increases, so as not to price British goods out of export markets. Both decisions by the Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.) were victories for the moderate (Attlee) wing of the Labor Party, and defeats for Communists and the followers of Aneurin Bevan, who blame...
...still a half million higher than in any prewar year. It quickly began to rise again, last month hit 2,603,300, nearly back to the postwar peak set last December, when there were 2,921,600. This is just about double the number in June 1941-another rearmament period-and it is 116,809 more than were on the payroll in June...
...will not answer a question if I do not choose," snapped Churchill. On the "new pattern" of rearmament, Churchill spoke words that were almost a steal from the lines spouted for months by Nye Bevan: "The defense programs must be kept within the limits of our economic strength." Machinery, automobiles, armaments and other metal-using industries would have to be given a higher priority for export goods, and defense production would have to suffer. Well, how much...
...before the House were the allied agreements to give Germany its freedom in return for German rearmament. There was little to argue about: the principles were first espoused by Socialists when in power. Yet. egged on by Nye Bevan's leftists, Labor tried to defeat the agreements, on the feeble ground that the timing is "inopportune...