Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chancellor's insistence on passage of the two treaties was accepted in good part by perhaps the majority of Western Germans. Stirred by Russia's tightening control in East Germany, the Western Germans day by day become less reluctant to rearm. In the Bundestag, Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer, no firebrand as Kurt Schumacher had been before him, was determined in his opposition, but not vehement...
Temporary Alternative. After all the palaver and the promises, the whole two-year-old debate appeared to be wide open again. A tempting alternative was now widely discussed. Why not forget all the complexities of a common command, a common uniform and common budget? Why not simply rearm the West Germans, and postpone all talk of a federated Western Europe? This is the proposal of General de Gaulle, who from the first has fought the European Army idea...
...France, cabled a correspondent last week, "there is not a majority for liking German rearmament, but there is a ma jority for having it." Yet it was the French who had first insisted on the complexities of the European Army, as their price for letting Germany rearm. Now many Frenchmen, including Marshal Juin, were coming to see that the chains that bind Germany would also chafe France...
...their conquerors and advocated all power to wage another war be taken from them. In order to effect this he outlined a plan by which Germany would receive its electrical power from other countries, thus making it possible for this supply to be shut off it Germany attempted to rearm...
Confident that West Germany had thereby made its "political decision" to rearm and join the Western Allies, Chancellor Adenauer sat back confidently to await what he assumed would be an equally approving court decision...