Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good position" in southern France and northern Italy. To support the land forces, there are 14 tactical air wings. SHAPE figures itself about 10% shy of its present goals. The big military question at Lisbon is German rearmament: the conflict between Germany's price for rearming and France's conditions for letting Germany rearm (see FOREIGN NEWS). Technically, Lisbon will be discussing the mechanics of linking NATO with the European Army once an army is formed, but the current troubles over forming it overshadow that...
Speaker after speaker laid open French fears. The Germans might come to dominate the European Army and, through it, France. The Germans might get strong and break away. German rearmament might provoke Russia to attack. "It will take two years to relieve international tension if we are to rearm Germany," cried former Premier Edouard Daladier...
...heard the hymns, readings, prayers and sermon that morning would have noted the great contradiction between the meanings and any inscription which would remind those dedicating the memorial that this man remained an enemy even in death. One need accept neither the cynical policy that it is time to rearm Germany if we would be "saved," nor a sentimental attitude of forgive and forget, to believe that a memorial in a Christian church, dedicated in the spirit of a Christian philosophy of life, should be free of the spirit and connotations of the word "enemy." Sincerely yours, Robert C. Baldwin...
Long Squeeze. How then are we to release the present intolerable tension in Europe? To rearm goes without saying. Equally important, but less obvious, we must strengthen the Iron Curtain, for the following reason...
...midsummer 1950, five years and eight billion EGA dollars after V-J day, Western Europe was nicely back on its feet. Its industrial production was higher than in 1938. Then came Korea. Prodded by the U.S., Europe grudgingly agreed to rearm. U.S. arms production got going first, though slowly (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and in the worldwide inflation that followed, Europe's convalescing economy suffered a setback. Last week, in two countries, it was in perilous condition...