Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tall, slim airman, now 43, talked suspiciously like a commanding officer: "The new German air force will not be built around World War II flyers, who are now too old. It will be built around youth. It's now become a necessary evil for Germany to rearm." For the record, Bureau Blank, West Germany's shadow Defense Ministry, denied any ties to Galland (it does not like to name names before the French Senate votes). But privately a Bureau Blank man admitted: "Galland, after all, is about the only man we have who's been near...
...substitute, to rearm and grant sovereignty to West Germany under a different set of agreements, was conceived by Britain's Foreign Minister Anthony Eden one morning in his bathtub. Last October in Paris, with the help of Dulles and of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (the Man of 1953), Eden got his alternative plan approved at the foreign-minister level. Many military men discovered that they liked Eden's Western European Union, with its appeal to nationalism, better than EDC, with its emphasis on European political unity. The Communists testified to the plan's potential: they fought as desperately against...
...Under the pretext of Atlantic solidarity, they are asking France to take precautions against the Soviet danger before taking precautions against the German danger," cried rightist General Adolphe Aumeran. "Without our agreement Amer ica will not dare rearm Germany." Insisted Gaullist Jacques Soustelle: "Every effort to get a modus vivendi with the East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering...
...Issue Is How. Abroad, the reaction was one of incredulity and mounting disgust. Britain's Anthony Eden issued the bluntest statement in years. "It is clear that what is at stake is the unity of the Western allies. The issue is not whether the German Federal Republic will rearm, but how." In Washington John Foster Dulles suggested that the vote raised a serious question as to France's ability to take the kind of decision required of a responsible ally...
...will do so only once." So spoke Konrad Adenauer, himself a maker of history, as one day last week he challenged the German Bundestag to ratify the Paris accords. The grim-faced old German titan was opening the last and fateful round in the three-year-old battle to rearm West Germany within the Atlantic alliance. On both sides of the Rhine, and of the Iron Curtain, too, all men knew that this time history required that the fight be fought to a finish...