Word: rearmement
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...told Attlee of his decision: he was resigning from the shadow cabinet and would "resume the freedom of the back benches," where he can criticize his own party leadership to his heart's content. He "profoundly disagreed" with Labor's decision to support EDC and the immediate rearmement of Germany (though privately he admits that German rearmament is inevitable). The Asia proposal, he charged, was "tantamount to the diplomatic and military encirclement" of what he persists in calling "republican China...
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