Word: rearmaments
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...Perhaps the dark they had just been through made them overeager to proclaim the dawn. Yet their optimism was also grounded in substantial achievement. Without bickering or hesitation, the 35 foreign, defense and finance ministers' of the 14 Western allies had: ¶ Endorsed for the first time German rearmament and the long-proposed European Army. This cleared the way for the continental six-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-to negotiate a treaty fusing their armed forces into an internationalized, one-uniform army of 2,000,000 men, 6,000 warplanes. ¶ Agreed to spend...
...Hardie objected to the government's plan to make British steel consumers pay for urgently needed U.S. steel imports through higher steel prices. He wanted to protect the British steel users from higher U.S. prices-and from economic realities-by absorbing the cost of steel imports into the rearmament budget. The Tories said...
Speaker after speaker laid open French fears. The Germans might come to dominate the European Army and, through it, France. The Germans might get strong and break away. German rearmament might provoke Russia to attack. "It will take two years to relieve international tension if we are to rearm Germany," cried former Premier Edouard Daladier...
Heavy with Consequences. Even Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, chief protagonist of the European Army plan and a Frenchman in head and heart, did not urge German rearmament; he simply defended its necessity. Though his Frenchness needs no proving, he sometimes seems to act as if it does. Possible reason: he lived the first 33 years of his life under the German flag as a Lorrainer, got his education in German universities and worked under compulsion in a German arsenal during World...
...businessmen have long known that rearmament's tightest pinch on civilian production would come in 1952's second quarter. But last week, when the Defense Production Administration allocated the quarter's supplies of metals, manufacturers learned that the pinch will not be as tight as they had feared. Reason: the "stretch-out"in the arms program enabled DPA to reduce the additional 10% cut in metals which had been scheduled. Instead, steel will not be cut at all; copper and aluminum will be cut only 5% on the average. And even "less essential" producers (aluminum blinds, cigarette...