Word: rearmaments
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...sectional candidate, and to call attention to his position as chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee. At Denver last week, he attacked Taft and Eisenhower for "unrealistic" tax-and budget-cut promises. At the same time, Russell assailed the Truman Administration for "inexcusable waste" in rearmament, and for its stretch-out of aircraft production. He said it was "little short of a national disgrace to be outproduced in jet planes by Soviet Russia." Russell was also busily defending his opposition to FEPC, which he calls an "adventure ... in socialism...
...resentful Bundesrat, after a mere 15 minutes' debate, voted unanimously to ignore his appeal, and to debate the entire treaties, paragraph by paragraph. Moreover, it declared, it could not possibly discuss either treaty until the Federal Constitutional Court hands down a decision on the constitutionality of German rearmament-a decision not expected for at least three months...
Last May François Billoux, veteran Communist Deputy from Marseille, was called to the Kremlin. Alarmed by the prospect of German rearmament, he ran up the signal for Approach No. 1: hardcore violence to wreck NATO before it is too late (TIME, June 9). Billoux's instructions were published in the Reds' official monthly, Cahiers du Communisme: 1) no more popular-fronting with the bourgeoisie-they have become "chambermaids of American imperialism," and must therefore be destroyed; 2) less talk and more action...
...ratification unless a Big Four parley can prove that the Russians are not ready to bargain. Some, like Britain's multiplying Bevanites and their Continental counterparts, still think there is a possibility of a deal with Russia that will relieve the allies of the oppressive stress & strains of rearmament. Others see it as a way to stall until the November elections show whether the next U.S. President will be a man who sticks in Europe or wants to withdraw...
Some Continental politicians believe that the Russians do genuinely fear German rearmament, and may be ready to talk business. In reply, the U.S. points to six years of Soviet obstructionism in U.N., 258 fruitless four-power sessions over an Austrian treaty, and a year's frustration at Panmunjom. To attempt to bargain before the West German and European Army treaties are ratified, the U.S, fears, means putting the treaties themselves on the table as bargaining items...