Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone had expected French fears and French objections to rearming the Germans. But no one quite expected that Defense Minister Jules Moch would toss into the parley a new, complex idea that went far beyond military organization into international politics and economics. Its essence: West German rearmament must not be above the regimental or battalion level, and then only within the framework of a West European federation, subject to the authority of a West European parliament and based on the Schuman Plan for integrating the West European coal & steel industry...
...face of this sweeping and tortuously complicated proposal, the question of German rearmament or even continental defense became, for the moment, an idle topic of discussion. Chairman Marshall wasted no further effort, abruptly closed the meeting. Appointment of a supreme commander for Western Europe was deferred. The French plan was sent to NATO's Military Committee and Council of Deputies who will confer in London before month...
...West Germans grumped about the impasse in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over German rearmament: ". . . Strengthens the unrest in Germany and gives nourishment [to the Communists]," complained Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. NATO's indecision also encouraged some politicking by Adenauer's chief rival, Socialist Boss Kurt Schumacher, who demanded guarantees of German security before Germany contributed to West Europe's defense...
...High Commissioner John J. McCloy felt last week that it was time for Americans to say a word or two. In the High Commission's German-language Neue Zeitung appeared a blunt statement of the High Commission's views. It was addressed both to the Germans and the intransigent French...
...American people are beginning to wonder whether Germany really prefers freedom to oppression when they read such statements as these recently made here-that 'the German people are being misused by Occupation Powers' and 'we prefer healthy people bolshevized in undamaged houses rather than cripples in foxholes...