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"The central issue of the crisis is the announced determination to impose a world of coercion upon those not already subject to it ... it is posed between the Sino-Soviet empire and all the rest, whether allied or neutral; and it is posed on every continent..."
The Common Market has prompted quite a few Western European businesses to integrate across national boundaries, and U.S. companies which operate there are rapidly following suit. Dow Chemical and Jersey Standard have both centralized European operations, and so to a lesser degree have IBM and International Telephone & Telegraph. The latest...
Jewels & Diaries. As Hitler's armies first spill across the Continent, Nicolson despairs for Britain, certain that the war cannot be won. Opposed to Chamberlain's appeasement, he describes one of the Prime Minister's speeches during which "Winston Churchill sat hunched beside him looking like the...
No Replay. It was dollars, not army divisions, that thwarted Stalin's hopes of a czarist replay. Over the four years from April 2, 1948, when the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly enacted Marshall Plan legislation, until June 30, 1952, when the last shipments of matériel and talent-ranging...
Today Western Europe is the wealthiest complex of nations in the world, with a combined gross national product of $508 billion, v. the East Bloc's $443 billion. Only two former Marshall Plan members-Greece and Turkey-are still receiving U.S. economic aid, most of it in P.L. 480...