Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was the French view. Georges Bidault argued that thee was no chance of getting the French Assembly to ratify EDC as long as many French leaders see a possibility of a general agreement with Russia, especially an agreement on Germany, which will avoid the necessity of letting Germans rearm as members of EDC. Bidault argued that if the Russians refused the conference, or if the conference broke down, it would be easier to get EDC through the French Assembly...
...biggest issue in the cold war is Germany-whether to rearm it, how to unite it. For a month or more, Western diplomacy had been becalmed by inertia and irresolution, while the loosening lines of Soviet control in the East offered opportunity and threat. Last week the West stirred, and with some success...
...Cecil feeling no need to protest his Tory loyalty, bluntly told the House of Commons that Chamberlain's policy was "a surrender to blackmail." After Munich, and Chamberlain's fatuous promise of "peace with honor," Salisbury demanded ". . . Where is honor?" The right policy, he said, was "rearm, rearm and rearm...
...diplomatic responses. Whatever their motives, the Kremlin's new bosses acted with suppleness and skill. In his last years, Joseph Stalin's stubborn inflexibility had actually served the West: his intransigeance over Germany drew West Germany to the West; his Korean invasion bestirred the West to rearm; his willfulness drove out Tito. Stalin's successors, without any evident change in aims, have brought some mobility and subtlety back to the Kremlin...
...Minister, Molotov has made his mistakes, some of them thumping big ones. He misread Tito, lost the airlift battle of Berlin, mis judged U.S. reaction to the invasion of South Korea. Above all, he and his "fellow Politburocrats allowed the nakedness of Communist aggression to alert the West to rearm. To undo that "error" is now the principal external target of Russia's peace offensive...