Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Secretary of State Dean Acheson called for the immediate creation of West German divisions to be integrated in an overall Western force, Schuman argued that German remilitarization should only take place following the economic integration of the German economy into that of Europe. This process is now only in its formative stage...
Torning present discusson of German rearmament "premature," McGeorge Bundy, lecturer in Government, summed up his views on the subject as follows...
Because of the complicated technological skills involved in developing any modern fighting force, the West would have no choice but to enlist the aid of the Prussian officer corps in the reestablishment of any kind of German force, Friedrich said. It is this elite group, however, more than any other, which was responsible for Hitler. The political effect of putting power into the hands of these men again would far outweigh any purely military advantages of German remilitarization, Friedrich continued...
...Germany, the outcome of such a move would be to undo our post-war policy of impressing on the German population that is was "militarism more than anything else that was the crux of the recent German misfortune," Friedrich argued. In this regard, he added, it is significant that the results of a recent poll showed that the people of western Germany were against the formation of a German army...
Reappearance of German soldiers would have a devastating psychological effect in Europe, especially in France. This is a fact which Russian propagandists would not ignore, Friedrich said. To discuss such an explosive topic as German rearmament now is needlessly risky anyway, because it will be some time before our industrial plant can fill even our own demand for arms, he pointed...