Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the presently stalemated fragility, the proposals to form a united neutral Germany, and perhaps a neutral Central European bloc, have been voiced with increasing frequency. These proposals are predicated on what appears to be the reasonable belief that although Russia would like to communize Europe, allied strength will dissuade her from taking any step which would result in annihilation. The United States nuclear arsenal would guarantee the buffer region...
...several problems arise in connection with any plan for a neutralized Central Europe, which argue strongly against it. As an English commentator has pointed out, the Russians might probably foment internal disorder and then seize desired cities to foil "fascist plots." Hitler's precedent with the Sudeten Germans forms an instructive precedent which shows how effective this tactic can be. Could weakened NATO forces contest successive nibbles and would we dare to use massive retaliation against a small Russian move? In any case, a buffer zone plan seems to provide little more stability than exists at present. Demilitarizing Central Europe...
...Kwame Nkrumah has shown little tolerance for those who oppose him. But one thing has kept him from having his way: a compromise constitution, worked out by the British, which set up five regional assemblies to serve alongside the traditional Houses of Chiefs as a permanent check on the central government. That sort of democratic balance has never been to Nkrumah's liking. Last week he set out to remove...
...constitution will become a fragile document on which no one can rely, since it can be changed any day or any moment." The opposition saw Nkrumah's proposal as just one more step toward the complete abolition of the regional assemblies in favor of an all-powerful central government. Nkrumah frankly agreed; the regional assemblies, he said, were "a rape on Mother Ghana," and had produced a "leprous baby." Opposition M.P.s cried, "What's the hurry? What's the hurry?" as Nkrumah rammed through a second reading of the bill. With debate so curtailed, the opposition announced...
...Ship. Eero Saarinen's hockey stadium at Yale cost nearly twice the original budget of $750,000 and is worth every nickel. It stands like an inverted Viking ship with a concrete arch for its keel. The vast ceiling of weathered planks sags slightly, tent fashion, from the central spine. From outside, the stadium looks as strange as a beached sea tortoise. Inside, its wide-open spaciousness, wintry light, and effect of weightlessness are exhilarating. The nation's foremost young architect, who has created such modern wonders as the General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July 2, 1956), Saarinen...