Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western generals do not want a German army to be set up now; they do want the Western governments to make the decision that within a specified time-probably two years-it will be set up, so that they can include it in their strategic plans for Western Europe's defense. In the meantime, they propose through M.A.P. to build up the Atlantic pact nations-particularly the French-so that they will have no reason to fear an armed Germany...
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...
...hard fact remained that if West Germany was to be a nation, as the Western powers and its own people have decided, it would sooner or later have to be armed, and want to be armed. It would be up to the Western powers and to Germany's own democrats to keep a German army within reasonable bounds and under civilian control; if they could not accomplish that, they would not be able to accomplish very much else in Germany...
...together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like those in France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) walked out of the W.F.T.U.; the other non-Red unions followed...
...Yugoslavia abstaining, the U.N. General Assembly last week approved the U.S.British-sponsored resolution listing twelve "essentials" for peace and international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 21). Then, by a similar margin, the Assembly rejected the rival Russian resolution proposing a phony non-aggression pact among the big powers and smearing the Western nations as warmongers. The vote meant total defeat for the Russians' major effort at the current Assembly session...