Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his design, the new dove line had been hatched within the walls of the Kremlin. In 1947, the Kremlin concluded that everything possible had been squeezed out of Franklin Roosevelt's era of the grand design. The West had turned firm and patient. It had begun to rearm. The Kremlin's answer was the peace offensive and the dove...
...Japan becomes a fully sovereign nation with power to rearm or develop its economy as it pleases...
...History moves too rapidly. Seven years ago, who would have believed that today we would be trying to rearm Germany and Japan? In 1947, nobody would have thought we would be on good terms with Tito today. His men were shooting down our planes; he was as bad as Stalin...
...German Danger? The increased readiness to rearm will go for nothing unless the Germans get Gleichberechtigung (equality of rights), i.e., removal of the last discriminatory restrictions on western Germany. Specifically, this would mean the abolition of the Allied nursemaid, the High Commission. Many Americans here feel sure that the U.S. could just as well exercise economic controls through the E.G.A., political controls through an ambassador, military controls through Ike Eisenhower...
What is needed is a whopping gesture, something on the order of the proposed Japanese treaty, saying in effect: "O.K., boys. The war is over and we are ready to be friends again, pledged to defend each other." German leaders are not going to rearm a "second-class people," and Germans are not going to fight as "second-class soldiers." The French give the impression that they still want to avoid both a German army and German equality. Britain, while rigorously rearming at home, has gone slow on Germany, apparently in deference to its anti-U.S. left-wing Socialist...