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Said Hoover: Even with the U.S. commitment, Western Europe's rearmament in the past year had been sluggish and unwilling. "There is in Europe today no such public alarm as has been fanned up in the United States. None of those nations has declared emergencies . . . They do not propagandize war fears . . . Not one . . . conducts such exercises in protection from bombs as we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Challenge to Debate | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Quebec City, 140 acres of factories were converted to a privately owned industrial center. By 1948, practically all the government plants, except some unconvertible explosives factories and the $75 million Polymer synthetic rubber plant at Sarnia, Ont, had been sold. The explosives plants are useful now in the rearmament program; the Polymer plant has been earning a steady profit for the government since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Indispensable Ally | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Prime Minister cited the figures of Britain's impressive postwar recovery, reminded his audience that Britain was contributing toward Western rearmament two-thirds as much as the rest of Europe put together. But, he went on, the speed of Britain's rearming depends on the extent of U.S. aid. "It is for you to judge to what extent the United States' interests are involved, and, whether you aid us much or little, we shall continue to do our utmost in the common cause . . . That is why I have come here to ask not for gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unity Reforging | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...Adenauer was, not unexpectedly, angry. "I deeply regret," he said, "that a German national in the position of ... Niemöller has chosen this moment to stab his government in the back." Protests exploded from other places. Said a spokesman for the Social Democrats, the fiercest opponents of German rearmament: "The pastor plays the Russian game." Snapped Welt der Arbeit, newspaper of the West German trade unions: "Niemöller seems to labor under illusions that he can convert Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Red Red Carpet | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Despite this planned cut, Wilson insisted that he still viewed rearmament as a $50 billion-a-year affair (1951 obligations: $45 billion)-apparently for another three years. Some military goals, he said, would probably even be raised-and that was why the program was being stretched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Stretching the Boom | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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