Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians are a law-abiding people--just as they've been shouting for years. On Saturday the U. S. S. R. took preliminary steps to annul its World War II friendship treaties with Britain and France. London and Paris had clearly acted in bad faith by signing agreements to rearm West Germany. Hadn't they promised Russia in 1942 and 1944 respectively to take joint action to prevent renewal of German aggression? They had also agreed then to abstain from any coalition directed against one of the parties to the treaties. Wasn't German rearmament clearly directed against the peace...
...that the highways linking Berlin to West Germany had been damaged by frost and overuse, and that the extra tolls were needed for their repair. "Sheer chicanery," snapped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who recognized the new Red pressure for what it was: an attempt at revenge for the decision to rearm West Germany. Adenauer ordered 18 new trains to be put on the Berlin run (so far, the Reds have not interfered with railroad traffic). West Berlin set up a special fund of $250,000 to pay the truckers' extra tolls...
...years since the Allies drove the Japanese back to the cage of their meager islands and forbade them ever to bear arms again. It is three years since the West ruefully reversed course, gave the Japanese their independence, and bade them rearm and join in the defense against Communism...
...When he was in Japan in 1952 for a summer seminar, he recalls the "moving and pathetic" there days at Hiroshima. "It was hard explaining," he recalls, "why you take their guns and ships and tanks away and then five years later you urge them to rearm. It just seemed inconsistent." Perhaps he was thinking of this paradox when he later wrote for The Atlantic: ". . . vast segments of our people are . . . devouring treatises on peace of mind, when everbody knows there is no peace...
...April 1954, King Norodom defended Cambodia's new freedom against a determined Viet Minh invasion; in July he instructed his delegation at Geneva to hold out for his right to seek alliance with the U.S. and to rearm. After the treaty signing was delayed for five hours, Chou En-lai and Molotov gave...