Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collapse of the London Economic Conference had two tragic results. First, it greatly retarded the logical economic recovery of all nations. Secondly, it played into the hands of such dictator nations as Germany, Japan and Italy . . . From then on they could proceed hopefully: on the military side, to rearm in comparative safety, on the economic side, to build their self-sufficiency walls in preparation for war. The conference was the first, and really the last opportunity to check these movements toward conflict...
Britain's most immediate concerns, however, have been whether she should rearm Western Germany and manufacture the hydrogen bomb. Fear of war among her people forced Labour to support the Government's decision to do both, thereby cancelling these questions as election issues. Still, the Socialists did pledge to urge an agreement halting H-bomb test explosions. Yet now that talks "at the summit" seem probable, even the bomb issues has withered. Moreover, although Attlee has been pressing for such talks "in season and out" for a number of years, the fact remains that it is the Eden Government which...
...Europeans were urgent. The French Assembly had agreed to permit the West Germans to rearm only on the promise, offered by Mendes-France and confirmed by his successor, that there would be a new attempt to negotiate with the Russians before the Germans actually got their guns. Germany's staunch old Konrad Adenauer faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce...
...Europe the pacts to rearm West Germany as part of the West's defense against Communism were at last in effect. Reacting almost desperately to that fact, the Soviet Union was anxiously seeking a settlement in Austria. In Asia, at Bandung, the prime minister of Asian Communism, China's Chou Enlai, had encountered angry and unexpected opposition from fellow Asians. As a result, he had been forced to revise his tactics...
Some months ago, before the Paris accords to rearm West Germany were ratified, Russia's Molotov was threatening that if the treaties went into effect, a Big Four meeting would be useless, because there would be nothing to negotiate about. Now that the accords have been ratified,- Russia was angling for a four-power Foreign Ministers' conference in Vienna. Purpose: to approve the Raab-Molotov deal made in Moscow, which promises to end Allied occupation of Austria (TIME, April 25). The three Western powers, after consultations among themselves, replied that they would be pleased and ready to have...