Word: rearmaments
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...nations), meeting in Paris. Two of the principals in the disarmament debate, Dean Acheson and Anthony Eden, had left to talk rearmament in Rome. That left the floor to Andrei Vishinsky, who had nothing new, either in invective or ideas, to offer...
...Schumacher, with his violent stand against West German cooperation with the West, against West German rearmament for defense, against the Schuman Plan, speaks for an ever-growing segment of the German people-probably far more than any other German politician. In 1949 his SPD Party won 131 Bundestag seats against 139 won by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. If a federal election were held now, Schumacher's would probably become the largest party in the Bundestag, supported by the votes of at least 7,500,000 Germans. If East and West Germany were united (as Schumacher keeps demanding...
...rearmament, and for civilian construction, what Western Europe needs most is steel. Britain needs 800,000 tons from the U.S. alone; France wants an extra 150,000 tons; Italy 194,000 tons...
...Uneven worldwide inflation means that Britain must exchange almost twice as many automobiles and tweeds as she did for the same amount of wheat and wool she bought a year ago. ¶ Britain is not producing enough coal and steel to supply both her export industries and the rearmament drive. Once the world's largest coal exporter, she is now carrying coals to Newcastle, and this winter will again import coal from the U.S. The rest of Europe, deprived of the coal Britain once exported, is also forced to spend precious dollars on U.S. coal. British steel production...
...gently, "The sincerity of your proposal is questionable." That Heuss could answer so quickly and firmly was a sign that West Germans had come to see the Red proposal for what it is: a bogus offer of unity, subject to Russian conditions, and designed solely to disrupt West German rearmament. West Germans, most of whom really do want a unified Germany, were looking to Paris instead. There the U.S., Britain and France, supported by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, asked for a U.N. commission to determine whether free elections are possible in East Germany...