Word: builded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Europe's future, Hoffman saw a bold and hopeful prospect: "In order to build a united Europe, you first have to build Europeans. The European organizations that have been formed and that are at work now are building Europeans. For the first time in history, a body of men are beginning to think and plan and build together as Europeans and not as nationals of separate states. They are developing more and more the habit of working together, of looking at their problems as common European problems. They are getting in the habit of having their economic plans criticized...
Bevin was justified in calling attention to the achievement of the past two years, but the picture he drew was both exaggerated and incomplete. In Germany the Western nations had blocked open Communist thrusts, but they had not even begun to build a firm structure to withstand future Communist efforts (see FOREIGN NEWS). Progress in Italy and France had been marked; but neither nation was out of the woods, politically or economically...
...danger? We must finally make up our minds what kind of face we want to see on tomorrow's Germany. We must decide whether our distrust of Germany is so great that we want her to be simply our colony, or whether we want to try to build a free and stable country. It is impossible to do both. If we want the former, we should not talk of democracy, we should not encourage political parties, we should see that the Germans won't produce more and live better than the rest of Europe. And we should never...
Plan S. Last winter, Luigi Gedda called on Catholic Action's comitati civici (citizens' committees) for a major effort. He named it Plan S (for syndicalism). He wanted to build up the Free Federation of Italian Labor, to rival the Red-run Italian Confederation of Labor (C.G.I.L.) through which the Communists have kept an iron grip on four million of Italy's workers. Gedda's goal was to enlist two million members for the Free Federation...
...Ocean. "The air," wrote Sir George Cayley, an 18th Century plane designer (who never got off the ground), "is an uninterrupted, navigable ocean that comes to the threshold of every man's door." It remained for Trippe to use the air to build an empire...