Word: rearmaments
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...Russian charges that the U.S. was arming for war, the U.S. had retorted that it was arming only because it had to. Last week's offer was to quit arming-if the Russians would quit too. By his retort, Vishinsky proved, if it needed proving again, that U.S. rearmament is not a matter of choice but of harsh necessity...
...order to make proposals such as these completely workable in a permanent sense, the U.N. must have a police force of its own and a system of law enforceable on individuals. The power of the U.N., manifested in these ways, should grow as disarmament, is effected, and should make rearmament impossible. Changes in the structure of the U.N., e.e, a representative General Assembly, would have to accompany this increase in power. We believe that U.S. foreign policy should look even beyond the present disarmament proposals, toward the revised United Nations organization necessary to Implement such proposals permanently. Gordon Brumm...
...bluntly announced that senior ministers' salaries would be slashed 20% and that his own pay would be cut from $28,000 to $19,600. In addition, said Churchill, there would be "large reductions in the use of ministerial motorcars." The cuts will be effective "during the period of rearmament, or for three years, whichever ends first...
Nevada tests of Atom Bomb Number Five have been another step in the rearmament of free nations to curb Soviet aggression wherever it may exist. The Truman Doctrine for the defense of Greece and Turkey, military aid to Franco and Tito, and the establishment of NATO armed forces under General Eisenhower have been earlier steps in this policy of containment...
Washington, slow to realize the importance of machine tools to rearmament, refused for months to give the industry priorities or adequate price schedules. (One top production official made the fantastic statement that the industry would "get the same consideration as any other voters. Machine tools are no more important than pots & pans.") A series of recent orders (TIME, Aug. 6 et seq.) has changed all this, but there is still vast confusion at the top over how many tools are actually needed, and who should get them first. Says Fred Geier: "If they would just go away and leave...