Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody could say last week that the U.S. did not know what it wanted. At least as far as Western Europe was concerned, the U.S. objective was clear. It was "integration." Some Europeans have professed not to know what the U.S. means by integration; others suggest that the U.S. itself does not know what it means. In recent weeks, ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, integration's foremost prophet and promoter, as well as other EGA officials, has made its meaning perfectly plain...
...Making OEEC, now mainly an advisory body, ECA's chosen instrument of integration, with clear responsibilities and enough political weight to compel member nations to abide by its decisions. One important step toward this goal: appointment of a strong OEEC secretary (possible candidates: Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, now ambassador to the U.S., and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, first President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe...
...postwar Allies had decided that the answer must be yes, if Europe (and all the West) was to have peace, prosperity and freedom. The German who more firmly than any other assured the U.S. that its decision had been wise, its hope not misplaced, was an aging, clear-eyed politician from the wine country along the Rhine: Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, without doubt the most important German since Hitler...
...Higher Loyalty. To Layman Smith, the trend is clear, present, and dangerous: in their anxiety to adjust the child to his environment, modern educators have actually forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should aim not at educating "the individual in his own right to become a valuable member of society," but at preparing him "for the realization of his best self in the higher loyalty of serving the basic ideals and aims of our society...
...River-Bed. Unofficially, in his letters, Lafcadio Hearn told a different story. "It seems as if everything had suddenly become clear to me, and utterly void of emotional interest," he wrote a few years after his arrival. "There are no depths to stir, no race-profundities to explore: all is like a Japanese riverbed . . . never filled but in times of cataclysm and destruction." The Japanese government added to his disillusionment by easing him out of his university job. In the last years of his life he often longed to escape both family and country. He never did. A heart attack...