Word: weekes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defense ministers and chiefs of staff of the twelve Atlantic pact nations met in Paris last week to put final touches and a stamp of approval on "strategic concepts for the integrated defense of the North Atlantic area." This was necessary to get the first $1 billion of U.S. military aid rolling; in approving the military assistance program for the U.S.'s allies, Congress had stipulated that Western Europe's defense must be certified feasible by the military chiefs before any funds could be expended...
...official U.S. answer to the question, as expressed by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson in the name of President Truman, was a flat no. But by last week it was plain that a more accurate and honest answer would have been: "No-for the time being." Western military leaders and planners are agreed that some sort of army for the new West German Republic is essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been...
These plans were meeting opposition last week from an unexpected quarter-Germany. Both Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Socialist Opposition Leader Kurt Schumacher have said that they do not want a German army. A public-opinion poll in the new republic showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want to bear arms. Certainly, it was unrealistic to expect, as some Western military leaders have suggested, that Germans would long bear arms under foreign officers, i.e., under Western Union headquarters. Cried the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine last week: "You cannot buy German military ability for money, white bread and corned beef...
Said the democratic Paris paper L'Aube last week: "If this Cominform meeting had been held two years ago it would have been attended by men like Tito, Rostov, Gomulka, Rajk and Markos, men who have now been shot, imprisoned, threatened or called 'dissident...
...word was spread thoroughly. In Manhattan this week members of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, meeting in a "peace rally," were advised to join "Parents-Teachers associations, the Elks, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and church groups" to "work for peace...