Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Britain's House of Commons early last month. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd eloquently restated the arguments that Western leaders have been using for a decade past to justify German rearmament. West Germany today, said Lloyd, is a sworn ally of the West, incapable of the diplomatic and military adventurism of the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler. Last week, the misgivings his speech was designed to mollify broke out anew when Germany's allies learned that brash, beefy West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss had been negotiating a sub rosa military agreement with Franco Spain...
...bases occupied by British or U.S. forces, the Bundeswehr had no range on which it could carry out air-to-air, or air-to-ground missile firings, and what little flying Luftwaffe pilots could get in was done under the noses of Soviet observation posts on the East German border. So precious is space within West Germany's constricted borders that Strauss argued he could not even find storage room for the 90-day supply of matériel that NATO has asked the West German forces to maintain...
...Germany, mindful of the bonds that once linked Franco and Hitler and the Nazi airmen of the Condor Legion who helped bring Franco to power. In London, 140 Opposition M.P.s signed a resolution protesting Strauss's plan, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself expressed his disapproval to visiting German parliamentarians. Said the Church Times, unofficial voice of the Church...
England: "The slightest suggestion of a new German-Spanish axis is intolerable...
...foreign susceptibilities was probably more lack of imagination than indifference. More serious was the widespread suspicion that the Strauss plan was Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's way of serving notice that if the Western powers failed to stand up to Russia over Berlin, or otherwise took insufficient note of German concerns, West Germany would make political and military arrangements outside the alliance...